REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-27: RAMEAU Music for Harpsichord - FULLER - 1988 OOP NEW

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Background on this eBay item -

Super rare, long out of print audiophile LP title made by Professor Johnson at Reference Recordings back in 1988. Every audiophile needs this LP in their music collection - this is your chance to get a pristine, BRAND NEW, NEVER PLAYED LP!!

Albert Fuller - Born: July 21, 1926 - Washington, D.C., USA, - Died: September 22, 2007 - Manhattan, NY, USA

The American influential harpsichordist, conductor, teacher and author, Albert Fuller, studied organ with Paul Callaway at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where he was a boy soprano. He might easily have been drawn to opera, and spent months listening to the 1939 Tullio Serafin recording of the Verdi Requiem. He also said he was drawn to conga recordings early on, but his real passion was the keyboard. He attended classes at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. He studied harpsichord with Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale University and also theory there with Paul Hindemith, graduating with a M.Mus. in 1954. He then went to Paris on a Ditson fellowship.

Upon his return to the USA, Albert Fuller made his New York recital debut in 1957, and his European debut followed in 1959. He spent much of the next decade touring in Europe and the USA, and building an estimable discography that helped establish him as a colorful, imaginative performer. In the 1960's and 1970's, when the period-instrument revival was gathering force, he was one of several early-music specialists who helped build an audience for Baroque music in New York, training two generations of performers in the early music technique and interpretation. In the 1980's, he became interested in performances of 19th-century repertory using original instruments - forte pianos, as well as violins, violas and cellos using gut strings - and he regularly coached younger players in the art of historical performance.

In 1964 Albert Fuller became a professor of harpsichord at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He simultaneously taught organ for 11 years. He also was on the faculty of Yale University from 1976 to 1979. In 1972, he founded the Aston Magna Foundation, which included an annual summer festival and institute in Great Barrington, Mass., and an ensemble, which he conducted from the harpsichord. He expanded the organization's mission in 1978, when he founded the Aston Magna Academies, a forum where musicians, scholars and aestheticians could exchange ideas. He broke with Aston Magna in 1983, when the foundation’s board resisted his desire to delve into the 19th-century repertory. In 1985, he set up the Helicon Foundation, named after the mountain where Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, conceived the Nine Muses. Like Aston Magna, the foundation spawned its own flexible ensemble, which covered everything from chamber music to works for orchestra and chorus, presented at concerts and symposiums.

French music, which he studied in Paris in the mid-1950's, was one of his specialties, and his recordings of music by Rameau are particularly well-regarded. But he was also a sensitive and eloquent interpreter of Bach, Häendel and Scarlatti, and his 1977 recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, with his Aston Magna ensemble, the first American traversal of the set on period instruments, was for many years a high-water mark of the early music discography.

Like many early-music specialists, Albert Fuller devoted himself to producing authoritative editions of 17th-century works and to keeping track of musicological discoveries and developments. But he insisted that the performances informed by musicological study reflect something of a modern musician’s inner life. "The authenticity I’m interested in," he told The New York Times in 1989, “is our contemporary sense of the reality of the past, and what the music we have inherited has to do with us today. I believe that music is a window into the unconscious, and the miracle of it is that it lets us get close to what Beethoven, Bach and Mozart were thinking." He was also the author of Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait (1999) and translated Hugues Cuénod With a Nimble Voice: Conversations With François Hundry (1999).

Albert Fuller died on September 22, 2007 at his home in Manhattan, age 81. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure.. 

Release date: 1988

• Reference Recordings LP Item - audiophile issue, long out of print - BLACK record labels, with WHITE lettering
  

• Pressing is in STEREO

• Recorded August 19-21, 1987 at Mission High School Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  

• Produced by J. Tamblyn Henderson, Jr., recorded by Professor Keith O. Johnson.

• Direct Metal Mastering by Ken Perry, KOJ, JTH, K-DISC, Hollywood, CA, USA.

• Pure Analogue Recording.

• LP was made in JAPAN - using gorgeous audiophile vinyl!
  

This is a super rare, BRAND NEW, NEVER PLAYED audiophile LP issue of a much sought after recording featuring the music of:

Jean-Phillippe RAMEAU

Audiophile LP Title -

Pieces de Clavecin (Music for Harpsichord)
Performed by -

Albert Fuller, harpsichord

Music on this LP:

Pieces de Clavecin
La Dauphine
Menuets
La Cupis
La Livri
Les Sauvages
L'Entretien des Muses
Les Cyclopes
                                                                                    
Suite in A
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Les Triois Mains
Fanfarinette
La Triomphante
Gavotte avec six doubles

• LP catalog # RR-27

CONDITION Details:

LP JACKET:

• The Gate-Fold LP jacket is in near mint minus condition - it's actually brand new, never played.

• The jacket has NO seam splits - it is completely intact, and shows only some very mild shelf wear, primarily the seams and corners.
  

• It has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind - see pictures with this listing for a better understanding of the condition of this item.
  

• There is NO hand writing on the front, inside or back of the jacket (see point above).
  

• The cover has clean and sharp colors - see picture with this listing for more detail. 

The LP (vinyl) itself:

• The LP is in near MINT condition - it's actually BRAND NEW and NEVER PLAYED!
  

• It retains all of the original gloss and sheen, it's a new record!
  

• The record has no marks on it, obviously well taken care of.
  

• NO spindle marks.
  

• This is the copy you have always wanted in your music collection - any picky audiophile should be happy with this one!
  

• This LP may have a slight mark or two (spider marks) which are caused by sliding the LP in and out of the inner sleeve and are usually not audible on most audio systems, depending of course, on the sensitivity of your turntable, arm and cartridge - as for any record, we recommend a thorough cleaning before playing!

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them.

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Don't let this rarity slip by!!!