1750 Arch Records


1750 Arch Records was an independent record label that focused on experimental and avant garde music, jazz, and classical music.

History

The label, named after the company's address in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1974 by vocalist Thomas Buckner, who was also responsible for starting 1750 Arch Concerts, which presented over a hundred concerts a year for eight years, and the Arch Ensemble, which performed and recorded music by 20th century composers. Over the course of roughly ten years, it released over fifty albums in a wide range of styles, including the complete player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow. In the early 1980s, 1750 Arch began to wind down its operations, closing in 1984, at which time the master recordings were returned to the composers and musicians. A number of albums were reissued on other labels, including Buckner's Mutable Music.

Releases

;Contemporary music
;Classical music
;Early music
  • S-1751 Musica Mundana: Dufay: Fifteen Songs
  • S-1753 Music for a While: Transformations: Dufay and His Contemporaries
  • S-1756 Paul Hersh, Laurette Goldberg: J.S. Bach: The Leipzig Sonatas
  • S-1757 Tom Buckner, Joseph Bacon: Wandering in This Place: Elizabethan Lute Songs
  • S-1764 Joseph Bacon: Dowland: Fantasies and Dances for the Lute
  • S-1773 Music for a While: La Fontaine Amoureuse: Poetry and Music of Guillaume de Machaut
  • S-1776 Anna Carol Dudley: Henry Purcell: Songs and Grounds
;Jazz
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