@gardnerss501, I played “serenade to music” just the other day, it’s a wonderful work.
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@bkeske, I’ll send it to you..... yeah, Williams composed many of my favorite orchestral works. These are different. There is one exquisite passage with piano in the long choral work but most of the rest, like 80’s keyboards music, doesn’t survive the test of time. There may be people who still like to hike to church service all dressed up in marching costumes but I don’t know any. |
Here’s How Records Give You More Of What You Want: • The Best For Less. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form. • They Allow Selectivity Of Songs And Tracks. With records it’s easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again in a particular song or side. All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it. You can’t do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record. • They’re The Top Quality In Sound. Long-playing phonograph records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but there’s a world of difference. Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record’s technical excellence and insure the best in sound reproduction and quality available in recorded form. • They’ll Give You Hours Of Continuous And Uninterrupted Listening Pleasure. Just stack them up on your automatic changer and relax. • • • David Oistrakh, Violin Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio Kiril Kondrashin, Conductor A David Oistrakh Concert Prokofiev, Chausson, Ravel ABC Westminster Gold 1974 (Mono) labeled stereo on the cover but it’s not |
@bkeske, I am a huge fan. Hey, if Zubin and Paavo et. al. call for her to perform with them that’s a good enough endorsement of her musicianship for me. We really shouldn’t hold it against her that just the site of her in performance can send somebody to lofty heights of mind - contemplating the feminine ideal. |
Thanks Steve, I’ve been traveling. Grey’s Anatomy had a business trip South so I tagged along. It gave me a chance (Uber-style) to make a very productive visit to a favorite out of town independent record store - this one in San Jose and I came home with a large box. Two or three treasures, many that had been on my long established want list, and quite a few I hadn’t realized yet that I needed.... it was a fun afternoon there with the always helpful owner and staff but I also went through the collectibles and back room stash of Jazz treasures with a Japanese audiophile who was there - terrific guy. We both wound up with original pressings of classics and had a fun discussion about different favorites. He got an OP Time Out and some others. I got a NM first mono of the Sailboat Cover Miles Ahead and a NM first mono of the Bill Evans Trio at Shelly’s Manne-Hole. So, a fun (to me) thing also happened there. I found a NM copy of a relatively obscure record worth at least $150, that I already have, marked at $5. So, for some silly reason, I pointed that out to the owner, suggesting that he think about raising his price on it. He looked it up and confirmed the recent rise in market value and we discussed some of the crazy things happening with record prices and the effect of YouTube reviews, etc. Then, when I went to check out he insisted on just giving me the record, saying something about it should be my reward for coming in and crate diving. Well, I guess I had also bought a very large stack. Great fun. |
Bach • Starker Suites For Unaccompanied Cello Complete Analogue Productions, Mercury 2020/1963-1965 “Recorded in April 1963, September and December 1965 at Ballroom Studio A, Fine Recording Studios, New York. These newly remastered Mercury Living Presence reissue LPs represent the state of the art of all-analog technology and production. Led by remastering supervisor Thomas Fine, son of high-fidelity recording pioneers C. Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine of Fine Recording Inc. in New York City, these reissues were cut at 45 RPM directly from first-generation 3-track master tapes. A 3-2 channel mix was made directly to the cutting lathe, no "cutting master" tape stage, digital source or digital delay was used. Thomas Fine made the 3-2 mixes with mastering engineer Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound's new facility in Nashville, Tennesee. Smith manually controlled groove margin and depth on his Neumann VMS-80 lathe, working with no preview signal and bypassing the lathe's margin-control computer. In doing so, he cut these sides the same way the original LP was cut by George Piros, who was Fine Recording Inc's VP and head of mastering. As with the original LP, no "sweetening" equalization or dynamic range control was used.” |
Jim, Wasn’t aware. Don’t believe what I read in the papers. They’re just out to capture my dime…. Ok, try this (unless that crazy Dylan guy has set you on edge….) Kirk Ross w Tyra Juliette, Steven Wolf, David Delhomme and Jeff Thall "I Shall Be Released” (Dylan) Captain Fantastic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records – LKS34682 If it doesn’t engender one of those moments, then well, I’ll try again... |
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 No.6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique" Evgeny Mravinsky The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Tchaikovsky [Symyhonies] Deutsche Grammophon (no date in evidence) International Preview Society/ Carnegie Hall Selection Committee Club Version, 3 LPs of the expected Symphonies by Mravinsky, additional 4th LP with Ballet Suites by Karajan added in as part of the package offer. The Box Cover has "Symyhonies" misspelled as such. "Printed and made in Italy" Copious liner notes written by a communist. . . Quaint. Now the communists run my town. |
@tomic601 Oh man, sorry to hear about the accident Jim. Take it easy and feel better soon. Did they at least give you an anodyne- something fun - like Percocet? The thing with taking Percocet is that when taking it one becomes incredibly handsome. Hope the War Department maintains a Medical Corps certification. |
@noromance I remember streaming that album when (I think it was) you posted about and recommended her quite awhile back. I like it too but don’t have her on vinyl (yet). YouTube can often be a great discovery vehicle and sometime rather great in and of itself. The algorithm can lead from one good thing to another. But I state the obvious.... I got on to western African rock through YouTube that way. Knew nothing about it at all until then. |