Guy...
how are you?
I dig that stuff more then I like to. There was a time where everything was Bach, Beethoven and Mondzart in my life, not because I like their music that much but because that was the material our teachers tried to make us believe that's all which is important, of course they where wrong.
My instrumental teacher at the conservatory was a Richard Wagner fan and a regular in the festival orchestra in Beyreuth and in the festival orchestra in Lucerne, I played already as a student in the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie orchestra. The big band arranging professor was into Duke Ellington and Count Basie but I had absolutely no interest in making arrangement in the style of Duke Ellington, I had my own ideas. The piano teacher was into Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin etc., I mean all the stuff which is played at every dog funeral, and has been recorded by the thousands and is cramped at every piano competition by any south east Asian pianist. The piano teacher once said: "Bach is the greatest, then long nothing, then Bach again then Mozart, and then again Bach" on which I replied: "I heard there was once a real good composer but he die 200 years ago", he never mention Bach again during the whole curriculium. The classical harmony teacher talked more or less only about Bach and Palestrina, I guess he didn't knew anything else.
But I like to listen to music from France, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Sicily, Spain, Greece when I have the time, even like Samuel Barber and Copeland a lot, but I grew up and still live in the German culture. So one day a person I didn't know died; he was a collector of classical vinyl records and as business man traveled the world and bought records everywhere he went. Records from Russian Melodia, from Spain, France, Japan, Mexico, Cuba, Scandinavia, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria etc. etc., all earnest music of course, he had quasi everything but no Bach, no nothing from Germany, Austria or Switzerland well maybe Arthur Honegger, Rolf Liebermann or an Ernst Bloch, all together he owned circa 6000 vinyl.
So I bought from the heirs all French, Spanish, Slavic, Mexican, Scandinavian, Japanese and all US American composer, all together circa 1000 vinyl. Then I made a longer listening session, keept everything I liked and the rest I gave to an antiquariat. What I keept was mainly French, Spanish, Japanese and Rumanian composers and everything from Barber and Copeland.
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