Re: AFMM CDs

I received the copy of the AFMM Chamber Music CD that I ordered from
Johnny Reinhard
and am extremely pleased with it. Music like this is why I have been
obsessed
with microtonal music for the past 4 decades.

The performance of the Carrillo Preludio a Colon is stunningly
beautiful. As I
have said elsewhere, it's one of my favorite microtonal pieces, the one
that
first got me fascinated with xenharmonics back in my high school days. I
like this
performance better than the one on the Phillips set

I was particularly struck by the Scelsi piece as he is one of the
composers
about whom I've heard a great deal, but haven't had much opportunity
to hear their music. Contrawise, I enjoyed the Lou Harrison and Partch
pieces
because I know their other music well, but was not familiar with these
particular examples.

The Ives Quartet was a revelation in 21-tone extended Pythagorean tuning
that
Johnny deduced from Ives's writings and the score. It's piquant without
the
dissonant confusion that I hear in many passages of Ives's music.

--John