The following page is present for archival purposes. Our Kickstarter project is now over, and was a dismal failure.

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March 2015

Over the last seven years, Orchestral Concert CDs has diligently attempted to bring a series of fine recordings to the classical music-loving world. And not just any recordings; we’re sure our listeners would agree that these are some of the best quality recordings ever made. One has only to look at the Reviews to appreciate the very positive impression our CDs have created with critics and customers alike.

Sadly, a fine-quality product does not necessarily imply a commercially successful one. When one is running a very small operation and has high-cost overheads, with rather limited sales, and when one’s recently-appointed international distributor goes bankrupt mere weeks after setting up an agreement and accepting the bulk of one’s stock… let’s just say that this is not a recipe for success.

Nevertheless, there are still some really wonderful and historically important recordings that we’d absolutely love to publish. However, unfortunately we’re just not in a position to ‘go it alone’ based on our own private funding and low-level sales. If the remaining recordings in our catalogue are to be released to the world, outside help will be essential.

Hence we have decided to turn to KICKSTARTER—potentially our last and best hope of publishing further titles. Please help us by pledging generously to our project.

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In fact, we are taking a two-level approach, as follows:

• Level 1: The Warsaw Project

  We have two CDs that are all but ‘ready to go’, and since they both have a Warsaw connection, we’re calling this the Warsaw Project. It’s our basic target, and we need £8,000 to get it off the ground. (The sound sample playing on this page is an extract from the Szymanowski performance on the first projected CD.)

• Level 2: A Campoli Celebration

  We also have two DOUBLE CDs that can soon be made ready for production, featuring the world-renowned violinist, Alfredo Campoli. Excitingly, one of these is of his very last performance: his Farewell Concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Because these are double-CDs, we’ll need a slightly higher level of funding to release them, so our ‘stretch goal’ that would allow us to release the Campoli discs as well as the Warsaw Project discs is £18,000.

We also have some ‘overflow’ Campoli material, including, among other items, Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, op. 25; Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV522 (with Campoli’s star pupil, Belinda Bunt); and a couple of Caprices by Paganini. These additional items will all be included on one or other of the Campoli double-CDs, along with any other remaining Campoli recordings.

Head over to our Kickstarter project page for lots more detail and sample extracts (including some full tracks) from all four of the proposed new CD issues.

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KICKSTARTER Backers

Here, for posterity, is a list of names of all the backers who pledged to help us, ordered by date of pledge (a grand total of 9, with pledges ranging from £1 to £500):

• Dr Geoffrey Hallas
• Mark Todd
• Robert Rot
• Gerald Stein
• Paul Bowen
• Sheridan Williams
• John Boothroyd
• Leon Duminiak
• Audiokite