Whats on your turntable tonight?

Ahmad Jamal - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1985. Atlantic 2LP gatefold 1986

@boxer12 

Congrats on the new speakers sir 

@tomic601 

Good to see you are alive man 👍🏼 Had a feeling you were busy with the boat and those fish. 

@mamboni 

👍🏼 On the Shostakovich 

Members if the Vienna Octet - Britten Sinfonietta, OP. 1 & Hindemith Octet (1957-8). London Treasury Series 1976

man, this is a wonderful recording and performance 

Alois Klíma conducts Prokofiev - Summer Day Suite, Op.65 & A Winter Camp Fire. Prague Chamber Orchestra & Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Crossroads. Unknown release date, but would guess late 60’s?

OK, finally done doing….and paying…my taxes. Whew. And ouch.
Good thing I also got a nice batch of LP’s in the mail today. I need some music.

First up, another Leo purchase (getting around to filling my collection)

Leo Kottke - Burnt Lips. Chrysalis 1978

Zubin Mehta conducts Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht (Op.4) & Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy. Los Angeles Philharmonic. London 1967 gatefold

Antal Dorati conducts Charles Koechlin - Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176 & Olivier Messiaen - Chronochromie For Orchestra.

and

Pierre Boulez conducts Boulez - Les Soleil Des Eaux

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.  Angel 1965

Meredith Davies conducts Vaughan Williams - Magnificat & Riders To The Sea. Orchestra Nova Of London w/The Ambrosian Singers. EMI/Odeon 1971
 

 

Hilary Hahn, violin : Prokofiev - Concerto For Violin And Orchestra No. 1 In D Major Op. 19, Chausson - Poème Op. 25 For Violin And Orchestra, and Rautavaara - Deux Sérénades. Mikko Franck conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France. Deutsche Grammophon 2LP 45rpm gatefold. 2021

The Gabrieli String Quartet : Britten, Early Chamber Music - Temporal Variations, Phantasy In F Minor (For String Quintet), Alla Marcia, Three Divertimenti, Two Insect Pieces, and Phantasy Quartet Op. 2 (For Oboe And Strings).

Unicorn-Kanchana 1983 UK

Another arrival…

James posted spinning this not long ago. It’s been on my ‘want list’ for a while, and finally picked one up. My friends had this back in the day, but I had never purchased it.

It's A Beautiful Day - S/T. Capitol reissue 1970, originally 1969

@noromance 

The Kottke posse 👍🏼

Another Leo arrival today….

Leo Kottke - My Feet Are Smiling. Capitol 1973

Recorded live at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

@noromance 

I kid you not, a Karajan selection is next on my play list :-D

The next new arrival….

Karajan conducts Sibelius #5 & Tapiola Op. 112. Berliner Philharmoniker. Deutsche Grammophon 1965 German pressing 

Saved this last arrival, well, for last….

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Mahler’s 9th. Berliner Philharmoniker. EMI/His Masters Voice German reissue, originally 1964. 1 1/2 LP gatefold. Unknown release, but guessing, early-mid 70’s. 

Holy crap man, that Mahler 9th was amazing. The Adagio grabs you by the throat, gut, an heart, and doesn’t let you ignore it until the music finishes. What an incredible work.

@spiritofradio

That guy, David LaFlamme (sp) was quite a good musician I think. Hope you enjoyed it. Sort of progressive. Very period.

I did indeed. Had not heard it all the way through since the 70’s. Brought back a lot of memories.

Unfortunately I don’t think that band got a fair shake, but was under bad management. Same manager the Airplane had, and who were prying themselves from when It’s A Beautiful Day hired the guy. He actually wouldn’t allow them to perform in S.F. for quite a while.

@noromance 

@bkeske Streaming the 9th. Chailly Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig 2013 and Klemperer New Philharmonia Orchestra London 1967.

I have the Chailly Mahler/Royal Concertgebouw CD box set. Very very nice. It’s what lead me to find the 9th on vinyl, as I’ve not had it yet. Very few 9th’s available on vinyl actually.

Bernstein conducts Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1, André Previn piano, & Poulenc -Concerto For Two Pianos, Gold & Fizdale piano. New York Philharmonic. Columbia Masterworks 1962

@spiritofradio 

Hey, did you check Vol. 9 of your big yellow Solti boxes   I think there's one in there.  

I have 6 & 10 James. 9 is on my want list. And yes, I checked those first 😉

Richard and Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver. Island 1975

As I was getting ready to spin some albums last night, I checked on my YouTube regular daily watches, and for whatever reason, a recent Richard Thompson interview popped up, and I watched it; fascinating. Then right after, a interview/documentary on Fairport Convention followed, and I was hooked, and my night was over.

So, after watching both, I’m lead to play some Fairport, Richard, or both. First up…

Fairport Convention - S/T (The US release/version of ‘What We Did On Our Holidays‘). A&M 1969. The first album after Sandy Denny joined.

Joni Mitchell - Clouds. Reprise reissue 1976, originally 1969

Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses. RCA 1990

Just arrived….

Leo Kottke - 6- And 12-String Guitar (‘Armadillo’). Takoma reissue, date unknown….probably early-mid-70’s. Originally 1969.

Just arrived today, another to the Leo collection….

Leo Kottke - Greenhouse. Columbia reissue 1979, originally 1972

Really nice SQ on this. Nice, as Leo’s releases could vary in that regards. Perhaps improved with the reissue.

Finally, snagged an album set that has been on my radar for some time now. Had this many moons ago, but think an ex snagged it (probably by accident) long ago.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will The Circle be Unbroken 3 LP set for $9.99. And from the photos, looks to be in really great shape. An auction on eBay, and I’m the only one who bid.

ChaChing

@tomic601

Brian - I sent that to Steve, I believe he enjoys it.

It’s a very nice collection, and collection of great players/singers. Nice change of pace LP. Will take me back to my hippy dippy bluegrass days 😉

Good to hear your fishing expedition went well Jim 👍🏼

Also picked up a Capitol EU release of Richard Thompson’s Rumor and Sigh. Should be here Friday. I’m sure it will kick my cassette version outta the park.

Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers. New West Records. 2018

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Britten - Young Apollo / Canadian Carnival / Four French Songs / Scottish Ballad. City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Angel 1982

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Schubert - The Complete Symphonies. Staatskapelle Dresden. Philips 5 LP box set. Reissue, unknown European release date. Originally 1967

Not sure how far I will go, but start with No. 1 & 2.

Actually had to turn on my AC for the first time this year to make sure I wasn’t blasting my neighborhood ;-)

@big_greg 

Mingus Ah Um

Great album. Have it on CD, but need the vinyl.

Everyone talks about Kinda Blue, but I really think that album competes with it.

Came in the mail earlier. Can’t take it, so taking a break from work to listen…

Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh. Columbia/EMI original EU release, 1991.

In simply fantastic shape. At least M-…..but it cost $$$

Back to this box, symphonies 1-3 last night. Picking up at No 4

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Schubert - The Complete Symphonies. Staatskapelle Dresden. Philips 5 LP box set. Reissue, unknown European release date. Originally 1967

@puffball08 reminded me I hadn’t spun any George for a while….

George Harrison - Dark Horse. Apple 1974

Treo Mafia! 👍🏼

@big_greg 

I found a new MOV 180 gram version pressed in 2010 for a decent amount, so jumped on it. Thanks for the impetus. Been thinking of getting this on vinyl for a while now.

@puffball08

My Dark Horse is a Jacksonville pressing as well. I think it sounds pretty good, but in terms of surface noise, well, I bought mine new when it was released, and played the hell out of it. So, many of my albums from that time have ‘user abuse’ surface noise vs pressing noise. Thus, can’t say I can blame the pressing as much as not handling my vinyl back then with the care I do today. Damn teenagers! 😁

@big_greg 

Well, the one positive is the MOV, or any vinyl probably, will beat the pants off my CD version 😁