I have been meaning to respond to this post for some time.
I have been a collector for 64 years, so I have lots of LPs, the early ones mono reel to reel tapes and a few cassette tapes, lots CD, as well as DVDs and BD especially opera. I also have my archive of live recordings and lots of off air and over the Net broadcasts on my Daw.
This is what is spinning right now.
Recorded 1995, organist Graham Barber.
I went to high school at Downside Abbey and so know that Compton organ well.
Percy Whitlock was a native of of my home town of Rochester UK and he was organist at Rochester cathedral for a number of years. My mother new him quite well.
These days I use AV streaming a lot.
There is a lot of good free HS music to had on YouTube especially from the Dutch site AVROTOS Klassiek.
I subscribe to the
BPO Digital Concert Hall,
Medici TV out of France,
DSO in replay,
SPCO concert library, and
Met Player for an opera fix.
There is just so much good listening and now viewing out there. There are an abundance of young and exciting musicians out there now. There has never been a better time for the classical music lover and it just keeps getting better and better. It is far from dead and very much alive.
We are also fortunate in that almost everything available is competently engineered, well produced and presented, which is the obverse of the pop scene. We should be so thankful that we have just an embarrassment of beautiful music to choose from.
