Whats on your turntable tonight?

Leo Kottke - Chewing Pine. Capitol 1975

That actually seems like a very good deal for a ‘minty’ copy Jim. There are some like the Analogue Productions going for $250, and up.

Jim, I appreciate that consideration. I was just looking, and Discogs does not have a very good selection right now, but did find someone with a NM promo copy on eBay, and he is in Cleveland. He’s taking offers from his asking price of $150. Might be worth a message and local offer to him.

Just arrived….

Boulez conducts Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra. New York Philharmonic. Columbia Masterworks 1973

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

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Boulez conducts Boulez - Les Soleil Des Eaux

B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. Angel 1965

On a little Boulez roll….

Boulez conducts Berg - Chamber Concerto For Violin, Piano And Thirteen Wind Instruments / Three Pieces For Orchestra, Op. 6 / Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4. B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1967

Boulez conducts Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2 / Rapsodie Espagnole / Alborada Del Gracioso. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks reissue, early 70’s. Originally 1971

@boxer12

Bkeske,
Thanks for recommending the Jerry Garcia Band performance (on YouTube) from 1990! Absolutely a joy to watch that.

Glad you watched and enjoyed it. I received the CD set early this week (have had the cassette version for years now).


I just cannot get over how well Jerry played, and performed overall, during that concert. Amazing. He was having a lot of fun, you could tell.

If a Jerry fan, a must watch IMO.

Holy smokes, it’s been a busy week. 8:00 here, and just finishing work. And have not spun any vinyl for three days. But…..that is finally going to change…just came in the mail today:

Klemperer Conducts Wagner - "Rienzi" - Overture / "Der Fliegende Hollander" - Overture / "Tannhauser" - Overture / "Lohengrin" - Prelude, Act 1 / "Lohengrin" - Prelude, Act 3 / "Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg" - Overture / "Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg" - Dance Of The Apprentices And Entry Of The Masters, Act 3 / "Tristan Und Isolde" - Prelude & Liebestod / "Gotterdammerung" - Siegfried’s Funeral March, Act 3. The Philharmonia Orchestra.

Angel 2LP box, date unknown, but believe the early 60’s per the label. Originally 1960. UK release.

Martinů/Roussel:

Martinů - Concertino For Cello And Orchestra, Op. 57. Prague Chamber Soloists, Eduard Fischer conductor

Martinů - Concertino For Cello, Wind Instruments, Piano And Percussion. Collegium Musicum Pragense, František Vajnar conductor

Roussel - Concertino For Cello And Orchestra, Op. 57. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, František Vajnar conductor

Supraphon 1977 Czechoslovakia 

György Lehel conducts Bartók - Symphonic Poem "Kossuth" Sz. 75a, Bb 31 (1903) / Scherzo In C Major From Symphony In E Flat Major Dd 68, Bb 25 (1902) / Scherzo For Piano And Orchestra (1901). Magyar Rádió És Televízió Szimfónikus Zenekara. Hungaroton 1971, Hungary release

Szell conducts Debussy - La Mer & Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé, Suite No. 2 / Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte (Pavane For A Dead Princess). The Cleveland Orchestra. Odyssey reissue 1973, originally 1964. Radio station copy.

@tgilb

yes, thank you. That was quite a surprise when opening my email Saturday morning, looking over my Audiogon emails, and seeing my modest system featured.

Jim @tomic601 is also a Vandy fan. He has my 2CE Sigs beat by a mile 😁 But I still love them. In fact, listening last night, I was wondering why everyone doesn’t own Vandersteen’s they sounded so good.

Szell conducts Mendelssohn - Incidental Music To "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61 & Schubert - Incidental Music To "Rosamunde". The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks reissue, guessing early 70’s. Originally 1967

@tgilb 

Jim has the 7’s and Vandy amps….in one of his systems. Check out his systems page. Quite impressive.

@tomic601 

Thanks Jim, I'm sure my system was chosen at random, but appreciate it. No doubt my system has been growing quickly, particularly the vinyl front end.

The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East. Capricorn reissue 1974, originally 1971

Second spin for this….

Tom Petty - Wildflowers & All The Rest. Warner 3LP gatefold 2020

Neil Young - On the Beach. Reprise 1974

@slaw

Be interesting to hear your thoughts on the Harrison release Steve.

@bslon 

Brian, bummer news but glad your speakers are okay. About your old amp I mean. 

Absolutely Bill. The main fuse blew, didn’t effect the speaker terminal’s or their fuses. 

 

 

Back to music. My cherished vintage Belles 400A amp ‘blew-up’ (well, more like a pop, flash, along with a burning smell) on me last week, so had to get an emergency amp in until something more permanent is chosen.

Chausson - Trio Pour Piano, Violon Et Violoncelle, Op. 3 / Pièce Pour Violoncelle Et Piano, Op. 39. Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano / Régis Pasquier, violin / Roland Pidoux, cello. Harmonia Mundi 1984 French release
 

 

Karajan conducts Dvořák - Symphony No.8. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.London 1965

Karajan conducts Sibelius - Finlandia · Valse Triste · Der Schwan Von Tuonela • Tapiola. Berliner Philharmonic. Deutsche Grammophon 1967. German release 

Szell conducts Schumann - The Four Schumann Symphonies. Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia/Odyssey 3LP box 1971

@slaw

Steve, I watched an interested review of the 50th release on YouTube. This person, and I typically trust his opinions, stated that these ‘ex Beatles’ releases are very tough to remix as Apple will not release the origional tapes to anyone. Ever. Thus, it is very limited to what can be done. Now, I personally don’t think that is all bad, as good or bad, the origional should have merit. Of course that assumes the artist, George in this case, agreed with the overall sound released originally. 

I have the original, and enjoy it. At times though, I think the Spector ‘wall of sound’ is just too much at times. It’s simply too ‘blurred’ and dense. It’s interesting that these guys maintained that late Spector relationship after the Beatles broke-up.

One thing is is for certain Steve, it’s a beautiful set in its presentation and packaging.

I am tempted

@slaw 

I will Steve. I just received a B&K ST3030 200 wpc mosfet amp for a pretty good deal. It actually sounds pretty darn good. Better than the 400A in some respects. The B&K’s are real ‘sleepers’ IMO. Had a 125.2 before, so figured it would be acceptable, or more so. No matter what, the ST3030 will be a back-up in the future.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Debussy - Images Pour Orchestre & Prélude À "L'Après-midi D'un Faune". Boston Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon 1971 German release 
 

 

Antal Dorati conducts Respighi - The Pines Of Rome & The Fountains Of Rome. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mercury Living Presence 1963

Wow, what a fantastic recording and performance 

 

Steve, instead of a brush?

Bernstein conducts Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 / Serenade To Music. New York Philharmonic. Columbia Masterworks 1968

@mammothguy54

Yea, I was intrigued, so for the $, tried it out. Amazon delivered in two days (don’t have Prime). 

When are you leaving on your fishing trip Joel?

@mammothguy54 

Sounds like fun 👍🏼 Make Jim jealous 😉

Interesting Steve.

I saw an interesting idea here, which seems to catching some traction: purchased an inexpensive rechargeable gel lighter. It gives out ions, similar to the Zerostat. You ‘light’ it just about 1/4-1/2” above the album while rotating, 3-4 passes, and it removes static. 

Seems to work. And much easier and quicker than the Zerostat. 

Playing with it, but as I said, does seem to be effective.

In a Williams mood today….

Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.6 / The Lark Ascending. The New Philharmonia Orchestra w/Hugh Bean violin. Angel 1968

György Lehel conducts Bartók - Zene Húros Hangszerekre Ütökre És Celestára (Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta) & A Csodálatos Mandarin - Koncert-Szvit (The Miraculous Mandarin - Concert Suite). Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Hungaroton 1967 Hungarian release 
 

 

Took a break to watch the Browns preseason game…..back to Williams 

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony. Hallé Orchestra. Angel 1968

ha! 😁

The Browns are quite important to me, yes. Been watching since a little kid watching the great Jim Brown run up and down the field.

Leo Kottke - Greenhouse. Capitol reissue 1979, originally 1972

Hang in there Jim….and here is to a speedy recovery man 🙂👍🏼