On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:31:32 +0000, Ron Andrico wrote > We've all learned a great deal > from their work but the thing that gives me that tingling > sensation of nostalgia is the thought of the buckets of money > apparently offered up by record labels, academic institutions, and > even governments to make these records. If there is anyone still > financing recordings, I'd love to hear from them.
I'm not shure about those "buckets of money" but at least back in the 90th I was involved in some recodings of Ferarra Ensemble (Crawford Young et al.). Those where mainly financed by WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) - the recorded material was used to do some mini-series on the subject. The CD was pretty much a welcomed side-product. IIRC a lot of the Harmonia Mundi/Arcana records where produced that way. Klaus Neumann, WDR's Art Director back then, was probably one of the most important promoters for early music (esp. medieval music) in Europe. And of course there's still the Documenta series of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with more than 70 productions. Cheers, Ralf Mattes -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
