Whats on your turntable tonight?

Antal Dorati conducts Haydn

• Symphony No. 97 In C
• Symphony No. 98 In B Flat

Philharmonia Hungarica
London Records Treasury Series 1976

A long busy week, which almost always brings me to Brahms…

Karajan conducts Brahms

• The Four Symphonies

Deutsche Grammophon 4LP box reissue, 1974, originally 1964
German release 
 

Decided to mount my mono cartridge, as my mono LP’s are begging to be played.
First up….

Budapest String Quartet
Beethoven - The Six Quartets, OP. 18

• Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
• Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
• Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
• Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
• Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
• Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6

Columbia Odyssey 3LP box, mono 1969. Recorded in 1951

Mono

The Kohon Quartet of New York University
Dvořák - Chamber Music Vol. II (Complete)

• String Quartet in F Major, Op.96 "American"
• String Quartet In A-Flat Major, Op.105
• String Quartet In A Major, Op.2
• String Quartet In G Major, Op.106

VOX 3LP box, believe mid-1960’s, Mono
 

Mono

William Steinberg conducts Brahms 

• Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In D Major Op. 77

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra w/ Nathan Milstein, violin
Capital Records, Mono, believe 1958

Mono

E. Power Biggs & New England Brass Ensemble : Music For Organ And Brass: Canzonas Of Gabrieli And Frescobaldi

• Intonazioni D'organo (Intonations For Organ), Canzon Prima; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo, Canzon Seconda; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo, Canzon Terza; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Intonazioni D'organo; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Canzon Quarta; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Fantasia In The Sixth Tone; Giovanni Gabrieli
• Toccata In D Minor; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Prima; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Seconda; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Terza; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Quarta; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Canzon Quinta; Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Toccata In G Major; Girolamo Frescobaldi

Columbia Masterworks 1959, Mono 

A Recording Premiere of the first true concert organ in America, built by D. A. Flentrop in 1958 for the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University.

More Mono

Eugene Ormandy conducts Beethoven

• Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major, Op. 58
• Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat Major, Op.19

Rudolf Serkin with The Philadelphia Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1955, Mono
 

Mono

Leonard Bernstein conducts

• Bach - Concerto No. 1 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra
• Beethoven - Concerto No. 2 In B-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra, Op 19

Glenn Gould with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra 
Columbia Masterworks 1957, Mono
 

Mono

Kiril Kondrashin conducts Rachmaninoff

• Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30

Van Cliburn with the Symphony Of The Air (NBC Symphony Orchestra)
RCA Victor Red Seal 1959, Mono

Mono

George Szell conducts:

• Tchaikovsky - Variations On A Rococo Theme For 'Cello And Orchestra In A Major, Op. 33, Leonard Rose, cello
• Weber - Overture To "Der Freischütz" & Overture To "Oberon"

New York Philharmonic.
Columbia Masterworks 1952, Mono

Mono

Mono

Glenn Gould : Bach

• The Goldberg Variations

Columbia Masterworks 1956, Mono

Mono

George Szell conducts Schubert 

• Symphony No. 7 In C Major

The Cleveland Orchestra 
Epic 1959, Mono
 

Mono

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Rimsky-Korsakov

• Scheherazade

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Angel 1958, mono

George Szell conducts Dvořák - The Three Great Symphonies

• Symphony No. 7 In D Minor, Op. 70 (Formerly No. 2)
• Symphony No. 8 In G Minor, Op. 88 (Formerly No. 4)
• Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95 ("From The New World") (Formerly No. 5)

The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 3LP box 1970
 

David Thomas & The Pedestrians

The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian

Rough Trade 1981, 45rpm

David Thomas & The Wooden Birds

Monster Walks The Winter Lake

Twin/Tone Records 1986

Don’t play too much Wagner, but have a desire today. Not wanting to spin a full box of one of the opera sets I have, deciding on this instead:

Szell conducts Wagner
Wagner Orchestral Music

• Prelude And Love-Death From "Tristan Und Isolde"
• "Die Meistersinger" Prelude
• Tannhäuser" Overture
• Overture To "The Flying Dutchman"
• A Faust Overture
• Prelude To Act 1 Of "Lohengrin"
• Overture To "Rienzi"
• Entrance Of The Gods Into Valhalla From "Das Rheingold"
• The Ride Of The Valkyries From "Die Walküre
• Magic Fire Music From "Die Walküre"
• Forest Murmurs From "Siegfried"
• Dawn And Siegfried's Rhine Journey From "Götterdämmerung"
• Siegfried's Funeral Music And Final Scene From "Götterdämmerung"

The Cleveland Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 3LP box, 1973

New arrival today….I believe this completes this cycle of Martinů quartets by Panocha.

Panocha Quartet : Martinů

• String Quartet No. 1

Supraphon 1982, Czechoslovakian release

The Cleveland Quartet

• Barber - String Quartet, Op. 11
• Ives - String Quartet No. 2
• Ives - Scherzo For String Quartet

RCA Red Seal 1976

Juilliard String Quartet

• Debussy - String Quartet In G Minor, Op. 10
• Ravel - String Quartet In F

RCA Victor Red Seal reissue late 60’s, originally 1960

Taneyev Leningrad Quartet

• Taneyev String Quartet No. 9 for Two Vilions, Viola and Cello

Мелодия 1979 USSR release
 

Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart

• Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 20 D-moll KV 466
• Konzert Für Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 12 A-dur KV 414 (385p)

The London Symphony Orchestra With Rudolf Serkin, piano 
Deutsche Grammophon 1982

Bernstein conducts 

• Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 With Trumpet Op. 35 with André Previn, piano
• Poulenc - Concerto For 2 Pianos And Orchestra In D Minor with Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale, piano

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1962

Erich Leinsdorf conducts Beethoven 

• Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor")

Boston Symphony Orchestra w/Arthur Rubinstein, piano
RCA Victor Red Seal, reissue possibly late 60’s, originally 1963
 

The Heifetz & Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario And Guests

• Mendelssohn - Octette In E Flat Major, Op. 20

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Joseph Stepansky, violin
Israel Baker, violin
Arnold Belnick, violin
Virginia Majewski, viola
William Primrose, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Gabor Rejtö, cello

• César Franck - Piano Quintette In F Minor;

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Israel Baker, violin
William Primrose, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Leonard Pennario, piano

• Schubert - Quintette In C Major, Op. 163

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Israel Baker, violin
William Primrose, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Gabor Rejtö, cello

• Brahms - Sextette In G Major, Op. 36

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Israel Baker, violin
Virginia Majewski, viola
William Primrose, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Gabor Rejtö, cello

• Mozart - Quintette In G Minor, K. 516

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Israel Baker, violin
Virginia Majewski, viola
William Primrose, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello

RCA Victor Red Seal, The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts Series
3LP box 1962

Nick Lowe - Nick The Knife

Yep Roc Records reissue/remaster w/45rpm single included. 2107, originally 1982

Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai 

Fire Records (2) 45rpm LP, 2013

Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing 

Caroline Records 2016

Grateful Dead - Mars Hotel

Friday Music 180g reissue 2012, originally 1974

@noromance 

It’s pretty good Brian. I had never heard it, nor streamed it, just took a chance. Familiar old Van. Not great, but pretty darn good. Worth having in the collection.

@bkeske Never heard of that Van 2016 album. He fell off my radar. Any good?

@normb 

+1 Eno 👍🏼

Kyndelkvartetten : 2 Stråkkvartetter

• Stenhammar - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 14
• Lidholm - Music For Strings (1952)

Sveriges Radio 1967, Swedish release

Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg

• Serenade Op. 24

Domaine Musical Ensemble. 
Everest, early-mid 60’s release

New arrival. Not sure why I never bought this, but finally decided to buy a new copy. A reissue/remaster of the original.

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Elgar

• Cello Concerto In E Minor Op. 85
• Sea Pictures, Op. 37

London Symphony Orchestra w/Jacqueline Du Pré and Janet Baker
Warner Classics reissue/remaster 2017, originally 1965

Karajan conducts Beethoven 

• Konzert Für Violine Und Orchester D-dur Op.61

Berlin Philharmonic w/Christian Ferras, violin
Deutsche Grammophon reissue 1979, originally 1967

Szell conducts Debussy

• La Mer & Ravel
• Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
• Pavane For A Dead Princess

The Cleveland Orchestra
Odyssey reissue 1973, originally 1963, Radio station copy.

A new arrival today, this has been on my ‘want list’ for sometime now, and finally grabbed a copy.

Karajan conducts : ‘Metamorphosis For Strings’

• Mozart - Adagio Und Fuge C-moll Für Streicher KV 546
• Beethoven - Grosse Fuge B-dur Op. 133 (Orchesterfassung)
• Strauss - Metamorphosen Für 23 Solostreicher

Berlin Philharmoniker
Deutsche Grammophon 1971, German release
 

Fritz Reiner conducts Schumann 

• Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 54

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Van Cliburn, piano
RCA Victor Red Seal ‘Living Stereo’, shaded dog 1960

Alois Springer conducts 

• Roussel - Piano Concerto, Op. 36b
• Ravel - Piano Concerto In G Major

Hamburg Symphony with Maria Littauer, piano
Turnabout reissue early 1980’s, originally 1971

Maazel conducts Bizet

• L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
• L'Arlesienne Suite No.2
• Jeux D'Enfants

The Cleveland Orchestra 
London 1980

Just arrived and brand spanking new….

David Zinman conducts Górecki

• Symphony No. 3

Nonesuch 2016

This is excellent 

Spectrum: New American Music, Volume III

Arthur Weisberg, conductor

• Jacob Druckman - Incenters
• Joseph Schwantner - Diaphonia Intervallum
• John Harbison - Confinement

Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and others
Nonesuch 1969

Just arrived, and has been on my ‘want list’ for quite some time. The 2020 Columbia reissue in clear vinyl. Sounds pretty darn good.

John Coltrane - Blue Train: The Complete Masters

Blue Note Tine Poet Series. Stereo version, 2022

Wynton Marsalis - Wynton

Recorded with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers October 11, 1980
Who’s Who in Jazz 1983

@dayglow

I am, and I concur, anytime I see a Concord release, I have to consider it. Top notch recordings and pressings always.

Just arrived. Finally snagged a copy of this, brand new. Hopefully can get through it before Berlin comes on live today…

Rafael Kubelik conducts Smetana

• Má Vlast (Cyklus Symfonických Básní)
• Z Českých Luhů A Hájů / From Bohemian Fields And Groves

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Supraphon reissue/remaster 2 LP gatefold 2018, originally 1990
Czech release

Cowboy Junkies

Black Eye Man

Sony/RCA reissue 2LP gatefold 2018, originally 1992 (cassette and CD only in USA). European release.

Extremely good pressing and SQ

The Thelonious Monk Quartet

Monk’ Dream

WaxTime reissue 2018, originally Columbia 1963

Fantastic pressing

Purchased a few sealed New Old Stock LP’s recently. Many have arrived, so looking forward to spinning these for the first time and seeing if I snatched any gems.

Maxim Shostakovich conducts his father Dmitri Shostakovich

• Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 99

New Philharmonia Orchestra with David Oistrach, violin
Angel 1973