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How to put a CD budget to good use

Buy true sacred music.

I went to the Pittsford Barnes and Noble to browse their CD offerings (which almost always means that I’ll buy something) and ended up buying three discs (see?): “Portuguese Polyphony: Cardoso, Lobo, Magalhães, Fonseca, Trosylho, Escobar” (Naxos); “Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro” (Naxos); and “Rachnaninov: Vespers” (EMI). All three recordings are highly rated by reputable sources (Penguin Guide, etc.) and the first two can be had for $8 apiece as Naxos is a “budget” label—a steal compared with the price and quality of the industrial-liturgical complex’s standard fare.

Play such music at home even when you’re away. It may or may not help your tomatoes grow, but it definitely won’t kill them.

Posted 04.22.2003
by Aristotle Esguerra
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4 Comments

Isn’t Pittsford a little far? That’s outside of Rochester! (There’s a cheap movie theater in that plaza that has a student discount, so I’m there a lot.)


Jeanetta
04.22.2003 @ 6:25 pm #

There’s a Barnes and Noble and Borders here in Ithaca, so the trip normally would have been a bit much. However, we drove from Geneva. My girlfriend who’s getting her Ph. D. there wanted to go over to Pittsford, Victor, etc. to look for housewares at some stores there, I had the day off, and she knows me well enough that she drops me off at a bookstore instead of keeping me in tow.

She ended up not getting anything, which meant that I spent more money than she did - the second straight shopping trip that’s happened. (Maybe she should keep me in tow.)


Aristotle A. Esguerra
04.22.2003 @ 8:16 pm #

Lane Justus Chorale did quite a bit of Portuguese Renaissance music the last two years of its existence — we did quite a bit of Magalhaes and Lobo including an entire Lobo Requiem.


Gordon Zaft
04.24.2003 @ 4:42 pm #

The Naxos label is great. I have not heard the Portuguese polyphony one yet, I may have to go by The Musical Offering in Berkeley this week! Thanks for the recommendation


Erik Keilholtz
04.28.2003 @ 8:13 pm #

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