Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) This section of The Faust Cycle has been sub-titled Culinary Philosophy. The narrator, Ergo Phizmiz himself (which I have failed to mention previously), finds that while he was asleep he has been relocated in the house. Of course, it has been difficult …
In the first of these two articles, I talked about the Grieg, Corelli and Haydn Brilliant Classics collections. In this article, I will present some notes on the Handel, Mozart, and Thomas Tallis collections. I also neglected to mention in part one that I had also acquired a box set of Telemann pieces, which I …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) Ergo Phizmiz & Firends have an accomplishment that is possibly the most insane thing I have seen yet: they have produced a 14+ hour piece and released it on the netlabel Headphonica. So the question becomes, how do you listen to such …
Introduction Building a classical music collection can be both daunting and mystifying. Big symphonies and operas can sometimes seem quite foreign and difficult to approach and understand, and are quite lengthy and difficult to keep track of. So, how should you start listening to classical music if you find these pieces to be too much? …
This time I’m focusing on Netlabels. What are Netlabels? Well, like the Kahvi Collective mentioned in the first article they are community organizations that have decided to release collections of music either by individual artists, or in compilations in a way that is analogous to what the large record companies do. Many Netlabels release these …
My listening has shifted back towards the world of classical music over the last week. Whereas before I downloaded a bunch of samplers from Amazon, I am now listening to box sets, or portions of box sets I have recently acquired. This includes music by Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel, Josef Haydn, Edvard Grieg, …
