I understand that the BBC music magazine this month features a clavichord CD as the “Instrumental Choice”, with a five-star review. Let’s hope it gets more people interested in the clavichord.
The CD is Julian Perkins’s “Handel’s Attick” recording - music that Handel might have played as a boy, together with some of his own compositions, and some later music which he might have influenced (perhaps).
The recording is available on Presto Music’s classical-and-jazz streaming service.
Without wanting to sound like a shill for Presto, the new Presto Streaming is totally fantastic. One big plus is that for many recordings, such as this, the booklet is downloadable. A big advance on existing services like Spotify or Apple Music.
I know musicians only make milli-peanuts from streaming, but the benefit for mortal listeners is immense.
Highly recommended. And it’s available on the phone as well for when travelling.
Plus, a lot of newer recordings are at higher than CD quality in terms of audio specification.
That’s a big Silbermann made by @Peterclav, one of our esteemed list members. Well done Peter!
Superb playing, excellent audio (so hard!) and superb instrument.
By the way, me too I know that but never understood why it is the way it is. Are streaming platforms less generous than traditional recording firms? Or maybe it’s difficult to count how many times a piece has been heard, or what?
Le 02/08/2023 08:54, Domenico Statuto via The Jackrail écrit :
By the way, me too I know that but never understood why it is the way it is. Are streaming platforms less generous than traditional recording firms? Or maybe it’s difficult to count how many times a piece has been heard, or what?
Hi, indeed streams gives one as an artist virtually nothing, even if most of us are financially responsible nowadays for covering most of the production costs. So l can only beg everyone to buy a cd if you fancy a recording. That gives artists a better chance to carry on. I know it’s attractive, and l stream myself as well, but this system really sucks.
PJ
Hello @Pjbelder you have of course mentioned this before on the forum. While I completely sympathize with your unfortunate position as a musician subject to these minimal streaming rates, I have CD’s stacked floor to ceiling and my apartment literally has no room for any more, plus I can’t listen on the phone on the go unless I tediously rip them. You’d be better off setting up a Patreon channel or similar.
Thanks Dennis. I was wondering on the economics of this: why the streaming platforms don’t pay the artists as high as the CD recording companies? Then it occurred to me that I pay Spotify, for an annual subscription, 17.99 euros x 12 months, = 215.88 euros per annum. That is for my family account, we are 4 persons (my wife, my two daughters and me) but you can arrive at 6 persons for a family account.
So, I personally pay 53.99 euro per year, the equivalent of maybe 3-4 CDs, while I listen to much more than 3-4 cds in a year, not only harpsichord music but opera and podcasts (conferences and so on). So, it is apparent that Spotify just can’t pay the artists much more than that.
I am going off-topic, I’ll start another separate discussion.