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The Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection, disc 12.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 51.

Great album.

Release date May 30: In 2025, PMP is proud to release Trillium X, a sixth opera by Anthony Braxton, on the occasion of his 80th Birthday. A limited deluxe 8-CD box set including both, a live recording of the world premiere in Prague, a studio recording realized at the famous Darmstadt Summer Course, a 6-hour of exclusive audio-visual materials documented a complete world premiere, documentary film In the Garden of Trillium X, and in-depth conversation between Anthony Braxton, Swiss conductor Roland Dahinden and German writer and Braxton's scholar Timo Hoyer. Braxton spent five years working on his opus magnum. He has been significantly involved in all Trillium performances, including this one. He has accompanied the rehearsals from the very beginning. However, the leading man in charge was Roland Dahinden, his long-time fellow from Wesleyan University. Dahinden and incredible PMP Orchestra represent the ongoing generational change in creative music.

Release date June 6: A groundbreaking new album featuring 12 never-before-heard Frank Sinatra arrangements, brought to life by Grammy-nominated artist Seth MacFarlane, and a 70-piece orchestra comprised of all-star players from Los Angeles and London at the coveted Skywalker Sound Studios in Marin County, CA. The album includes masterful arrangements by Sinatra's legendary collaborators - Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Don Costa - including a unique conceptual Nelson Riddle arrangement of "Lush Life" written for Frank Sinatra, which they attempted to record but never completed. `Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements' is more than a tribute album - it's a time capsule opened for the first time, of arrangements written for classic Sinatra albums such as `Come Fly With Me' and `Only the Lonely,' that were never recorded. MacFarlane's warm, expressive vocals breathe new life into these carefully preserved arrangements.

The Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection, disc 11.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 50.

That was the nice thing about buying from Emotiva, which sells direct. They repaired it themselves. They charged $300 + $32.40 for a replacement box and return shipping; I had to ship it to them on my own dime. This was in December 2019. They were very easy to work with.

I had a similar problem on my Emotiva preamp. I thought it might be a fuse issue, but it wasn't something I could fix myself. I had to send it back to Emotiva, who replaced a board inside. If I had to guess what caused the problem, it might have been one too many power surges caused by neighborhood power issues.

How about the one that had both Byrd and Morgan?

The Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection, disc 10.

Release date June 13: The Scandinavian project Arcanum brings together four artists all well-known to followers of directions in music at ECM: Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin and Markku Ounaskari. They've played together in many permutations over the years, but this is their first album as a quartet. Compositions by Anders Jormin and Trygve Seim, a Finnish traditional and Jormin's arrangement of "What Reason Could I Give" are slotted into a program of graceful collective improvisations distinguished by lyrical imagination, reflective soloing and sensitive group interaction.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 49.

I'm listening now to "Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington." I like what Solal wrote in the liner notes: "The choice of Ellington, beyond my own interest in his music, was predicated by the desire to show, by means of well-known pieces, that the job of the arranger is actually a compositional task. These most famous tunes get a complete reworking here, yet the original melodies remain omnipotent."

The Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection, disc 9.

I knew that, but you made my point anyway. ECM wouldn't have released it if that sound didn't appeal to Eicher.

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 48.

I think a key part of the ECM aesthetic is the disparagement of rhythm. Eicher just doesn't believe in the beat. Even if there's a drummer, the effect is more decorative - the drummer plays around the beat but doesn't really keep time. So, yes, but also add a drum machine. See if there's some juice in these wan tracks.