Welcome to the new site
bearac_reissues have made it to a new site after the demise of Geocities, where, admittedly the interphase was quite amateurish – the best I could do with html language. After a deadline was given by Yahoo! for the closure of their free hosting service, I had to employ a professional guy to set up the site anew. The task was daunting for me and it proved only a bit less so for him too. The catalog had grown to very much near the 400 mark (amazing come to think that this is a private enterprise) and I would be otherwise pleasantly occupied till October 26, 2009, when Geocities would go down.
The result as you can see (at http://www.bearacreissues.com) is rather good. There are still some minor problems Alex and I are addressing now and which should very soon be solved. One is the ID of random comments on the welcome page. I asked him to find a way to show which number it corresponds to so that visitors may click on it – if they find the praises intriguing – and go see what it’s all about.
The contents are now arranged by BRC-*number* order rather than chronologically (as till now, following the availability of a new number in the catalog). Although few new items were produced these last months, I trust the almost 400 strong catalog still has some fine surprises for the serious and knowledgeable collector. Witness our being happily kept very busy all this while.
Still here is an opportunity to announce some interesting additions soon to grace our catalog.
One is William Steinberg’s Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 in Pittsburgh – a stereo 1961 recording from a Command Classics LP. Collectors will know his mono recording of the 1950s that went on an EMI/Capitol CD. This one hasn’t been transferred on the medium and I found the recording quite like his older one but with airier sound captured at the Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh by the engineers. The EMI/Capitol housed a rendition considered to be a classic, along with Sanderling/Leningrad PO mono recording for DG. I found the later one equally worthy.
Another set will be of violin works played by Louis Kaufman. Milhaud concertos, Honneger and Poulenc Violin & Piano Sonatas (with Artur Balsam), all taken from very early Capitol LPs of the late 1940s and early 1950s. I think they will fill handsomely an 80 minute CDR – and if they don’t there will be a twofer which will be offered for the price of one CD. As Kaufman was a legendary fiddler and a staunch supporter of “moderns” and Milhaud himself conducts the orchestra, this will be a pioneering set well worth resurrection and a place in the catalog.
Keep an eye : I will be announcing new numbers here, so you can get more information about those – although the feature of a scrolling marquee with the newbies has been very successfully incorporated in our welcome page.
P.S. (23.11.09) Both new CDs are now available. The Steinberg Rach 2 was coupled with a very rare 1952 recording of Borodin Symphony 2 by Issay Dobrowen and the French National Radio Orchestra and the Kaufman two LPs went easily into a 70 minute CD remastered lovingly. Go to http://www.bearacreissues.com to read about them.
The result as you can see (at http://www.bearacreissues.com) is rather good. There are still some minor problems Alex and I are addressing now and which should very soon be solved. One is the ID of random comments on the welcome page. I asked him to find a way to show which number it corresponds to so that visitors may click on it – if they find the praises intriguing – and go see what it’s all about.
The contents are now arranged by BRC-*number* order rather than chronologically (as till now, following the availability of a new number in the catalog). Although few new items were produced these last months, I trust the almost 400 strong catalog still has some fine surprises for the serious and knowledgeable collector. Witness our being happily kept very busy all this while.
Still here is an opportunity to announce some interesting additions soon to grace our catalog.
One is William Steinberg’s Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 in Pittsburgh – a stereo 1961 recording from a Command Classics LP. Collectors will know his mono recording of the 1950s that went on an EMI/Capitol CD. This one hasn’t been transferred on the medium and I found the recording quite like his older one but with airier sound captured at the Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh by the engineers. The EMI/Capitol housed a rendition considered to be a classic, along with Sanderling/Leningrad PO mono recording for DG. I found the later one equally worthy.
Another set will be of violin works played by Louis Kaufman. Milhaud concertos, Honneger and Poulenc Violin & Piano Sonatas (with Artur Balsam), all taken from very early Capitol LPs of the late 1940s and early 1950s. I think they will fill handsomely an 80 minute CDR – and if they don’t there will be a twofer which will be offered for the price of one CD. As Kaufman was a legendary fiddler and a staunch supporter of “moderns” and Milhaud himself conducts the orchestra, this will be a pioneering set well worth resurrection and a place in the catalog.
Keep an eye : I will be announcing new numbers here, so you can get more information about those – although the feature of a scrolling marquee with the newbies has been very successfully incorporated in our welcome page.
P.S. (23.11.09) Both new CDs are now available. The Steinberg Rach 2 was coupled with a very rare 1952 recording of Borodin Symphony 2 by Issay Dobrowen and the French National Radio Orchestra and the Kaufman two LPs went easily into a 70 minute CD remastered lovingly. Go to http://www.bearacreissues.com to read about them.
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