Comments on The Tone Bigot: Introducing Matthais Weckmann

Actually (surprisingly), the Weckmann discs I got ...

2009-11-27T05:25:40.629-06:00

Actually (surprisingly), the Weckmann discs I got from iTunes.

I usually learn of their existence from one of two catalogs. I get catalogs in the mail from both Gothic Records (http://www.gothic-catalog.com/) and also from the Organ Historical Society (http://www.ohscatalog.org/). These two sources are manna for the organ lover. The catalogs include books and sheet music and videos in addition to a huge number of organ and choral CDs.

I prefer to get releases like Weckmann and Buxtehude in the form of physical discs and not downloads (that is, music I really want for my collection rather than something about which I'm merely curious); but my usual source had these discs on back order. But Gothic had the Buxtehude discs in stock.

If we steep ourselves a bit in the tonality of ...

2009-11-27T05:14:12.160-06:00
If we steep ourselves a bit in the tonality of Weckmann, Bach appears shockingly modern, a powerfully penetrating musical mind who stands apart from his peers--despite utilizing much of their mechanisms and structures--almost as if from a different culture altogether. I certainly don't mean to imply that Weckmann's value as a composer is merely to provide a block on which his successors will stand, but there is a touch of the antique in Weckmann's style that makes his music (for us) as much an exercise in nostalgia as an exploration of living musical theory.

I've got to have this for my own collection, both for the composer and the instrument itself. But please tell me, where do you get these discs? Amazon? And how do you even discover their very existence?