Just my subjective opinions and recommendations. There are quite a few
treasures on that label. I may have missed it, but I didn't see listed
several issues of the Harry Partch recordings which I have.
Sadly, some of the treasures from the LP era are not listed on CD. Others,
like the Goeb (one of my many favorite "long lost composers") Symphonies
were reissued on another label.
Some of the discs were clearly vanity pressings, funded by the individual
composers. However, at the sale prices, there is little to be lost in
picking some of them up...I did and have a pile waiting for some free
time for listening.
For various reasons...some suggestions:
Lewis 569
Intense dissonance, yet filled with dramatic contrast.
Picker 589
Eclectic but a talented composer, early works less tonal, more recent,
quite tonal.
Josten 597
Tonal, Con Sacro-lovely
Berger 622
Gifted non-tonal
Bergsma et al 634
Mainstream American
Harris et al 664
Mainstream American
Bassett 677
Non tonal, well written
Fine 692
Brilliant composer
Beeson 694
Fine opera composer
Glanville Hicks 695
Vocal music highly distinctive
Read 742
Fine neoclassic
Mayer 767
Gifted melodically
Rochberg 768
Must have, powerful Second Symphony
Howe 785
Tonal, lovely if not too inspired melodically
Schuman 791
Not the best performances but brilliant music
Barati 794
Fine, well structured, perhaps not all that impressive thematically
Van Vactor 829
Conservative and at times melodically attractive
Dahl et al 874
Piano works; based on a published volume of music. A wonderful cross
section of many brilliant composers, from tonal to non-tonal
Foss 880
Mostly early, tonal, choral works...he was an excellent composer early on
Stevens 892
One of my favorites
Tcherepnin 896
Alexander T. Wonderful piano works
Karl
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