Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Kottke’s first recording

Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues

Recorded live @ the Scholar Coffee Shop in Minneapolis.

Oblivion 1969

Beecham Bon-Bons

Sir Thomas Beecham conducts :

  • Léo Delibes - Le Roi S'Amuse : Ballet Music
  • Debussy - L'Enfant Prodigue - Cortege Et Air De Danse
  • Saint-Saëns - Samson Et Dalila - a) Danse Des Pretresses De Dagon Act 1, b) Bacchanale Act 3
  • Fauré - Dolly (Suite Op.56)
  • Gounod - Romeo Et Juliette - Le Sommeil De Juliette
  • Berlioz - Le Corsaire (Overture Op.21)

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre National De France (Fauré only)
Seraphim 1968-1974, exact date unknown

Breaking into one of my Solti boxes for the evening….


Solti Edition Vol. 6

Sides 11-13
Brahms 

  • Ein Deutsches Requiem

Chicago Symphony Orchestra 
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bernd Weikl bass
Kiri Te Kanawa soprano 

Side 15-16
Stravinsky 

  • Oedipus Rex

London Philharmonic Orchestra 
John Alldis Choir
Alec McCowen
Benjamin Luxon baritone 
Donald McIntyre & Stafford Dean bass
Meyer mezzo-soprano 
Peter Pears & Ryland Davies tenor 

DECCA 18 LP box, 1981. German release
 

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Vernon Handley conducts Elizabeth Maconchy

  • Serenata Concertante For Violin & Orchestra
  • Symphony For Double String Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra w/Manoug Parikian violin
Lyrita Recorded Edition 1982

Charles Munch conducts Berlioz

  • Requiem (Grand Messe Des Morts Op. 5)

Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Peter Schreier Tenor 
Deutsche Grammophon reissue, mid70’s?, 2LP gatefold, originally 1968
 

 

Georg Solti conducts Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral'

  • 1st Movement: Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestro
  • 2nd Movement: Molto Vivace
  • 3rd Movement: Adagio Molto E Cantabile
  • 4th Movement: Presto

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Martti Talvela bass
Yvonne Minton Mezzo-soprano
Pilar Lorengar soprano
Stuart Burrows tenor

London Records 2LP gatefold 1972

 

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

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

George Szell conducts Dvořák
The Slavonic Dances

  • Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
  • Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
  • "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92

The Cleveland Orchestra 
Columbia Masterworks 2LP box, 1965

 

Leonard Bernstein conducts Berlioz

  • Symphonie Fantastique

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1973. Radio station copy

Bernstein conducts Franck and Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns

  • Le Rouet D'Omphale

Franck

  • Symphonie D-Moll

Orchestre National De France
Deutsche Grammophon 1982, German release

Leonard Bernstein conducts Rachmaninoff

  • Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 18
  • Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Gary Graffman, piano
Columbia Masterworks 1964

 

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


 

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

Zdeněk Košler conducts Martinů

  • Concerto No. 1 For Cello & Orchestra
  • Concerto For Violin, Piano & Orchestra

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 
Josef Chuchro cello
Jaroslav Kolář piano
Nora Grumlíková violin
Supraphon 1973, Czechoslovakia 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

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Mud Acres – Music Among Friends (Rounder 1972)

Jean Martinon conducts 

  • Saint-Saëns - Morceau De Concert Pour Harpe Avec Accompagnement D'Orchestre, Op. 154
  • Tailleferre - Concertino Pour Harpe Et Orchestre
  • Ginastera - Concierto Para Arpa Y Orquesta

Orchestre ORTF, Paris
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
Deutsche Grammophon 1970, German release 

Peter Maxwell Davies conducts Peter Maxwell Davies

  • Ave Maris Stella (non-conducted)
  • Tenebrae Super Gesualdo

Fires Of London with Timothy Walker guitar & Mary Thomas soprano 
Unicorn-Kanchana 1981, UK release

Jorge Mester conducts 
Heitor Villa-Lobos

  • Bachianas Brasileieas No. 4

Priscilla McLean

  • Variations And Mosaics On A Theme Of Stravinsky

The Louisville Orchestra
First Edition Records 1977
 

 

Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky

  • Le Sacre Du Printemps / The Rite Of Spring

Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Columbia 1961

Lukas Foss conducts ‘Americana’

Carl Ruggles

  • Men And Mountains
  • Angels (For Muted Brass)

Charles Ives 

  • From The Steeples And The Mountains

Aaron Copland

  • Quiet City

Daniel Gregory Mason

  • String Quartet On Negro Themes In G Minor, Op. 19

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and The Kohon String Quartet
Turnabout 1972
 

Copland conducts Copland

  • Appalachian Spring (Ballet For Martha)
  • The Tender Land (Orchestral Suite From The Opera)

Boston Symphony Orchestra
RCA Victor Red Seal ‘Living Stereo’ reissue 1976, originally 1960
 

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts

  • Ives - Three Places in New England
  • Ruggles - Sun-treader

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 1970, German release

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives

  • Symphony No. 2

Concertgebouworkest
CBS Masterworks 1982