A Rare Find. But Nobody Cares.

I find it frustrating that two complex, dynamic, and difficult to perform pieces of real art like these concertos are completely ignored by almost everybody. This disc from 1999 was created on someone’s home computer, it comes on a store-bought writable cd, and the cover was printed on a cheap ink-jet printer. It is obvious they were just working within their budget, but I’m glad they did, I’m not being critical as much as I am admiring that they did what it took to get a recording of the live performance out there. I’ll never find this at a thrift store again, or anywhere else for that matter. I know that if this was farmed out to a company to create retail-quality copies, a run of two-thousand would be considered low. So I can’t imagine someone printed that number of these from home.

I picked it up for a dollar. And it was passed over by a lot of people looking at the other kinds of discs that were left on this half-off sale day. People will take their routine, generic, and mindless music all day long over actual works of art. Every time.