audiophile recordings of 12 tone/serialist works

Donald Martino is an interesting composer, imo. Here are a couple of links, including an obituary (unfortunately):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Martino

http://www.dantalian.com/donald_martino_bio_picture.htm

Obituary, December 2005
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I am continually learning to appreciate how vast the nonsuch catalogue is!

Nonesuch is a gold mine for American contemporary classical music recordings. Much of their contemporary music catalog was recorded by the outstanding producer and recording engineer team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort, and then mastered by Robert Ludwig at Sterling. I will purchase any LP recorded by Nickrenz and Aubort because I'm confident of being in for a sonic treat even if the music is unknown.

And the artists who recorded contemporary music for Nonesuch were really quite good: The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the divine Jan DeGaetani...

I used to be able to pick up used Nonesuch contemporary music recordings under $2. Now many of them are priced over $10 and a few (such as the Varese, Nonesuch 71269) over $20, but still not "expensive" as these things go, I suppose.
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Fool that I am, I just paid an embarassing $75 for the Nonesuch LP of Paul Jacobs playing the Schoenberg piano pieces over the internet. The thing that did it: it was still sealed. It blows the CD away, and I will get many many plays from it, so I do not regret the obscene and ridiculous price.