Whats on your turntable tonight?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert's Die Winterreise, with Jörg Demus on piano, Deutsche Grammophon 2707 028

Recorded in a studio and close miked. Fischer-Dieskau's baritone is crystal clear as is the piano that accompanies him. It's as if both were about 6 ft away in your living room, doing the parlor thing like you see in the movies.

Magical.

David

Indeed, Rushton, that's a lesson I've learned the hard way. Based on a few great recordings I stumbled across, I made the erroneous assumption that all DG vinyl must be pretty good. I bought a lot of them back when my rig wasn't nearly as revealing and I'm only now realizing I wasted my money on many of them. I should do some study to see which DG engineers did the good stuff and which the bad. There's generally a pattern, as we've all learned.

I also have to put in another plug for the Enoch Light recordings on the Command label. Sirspeedy turned me on to these; I actually had a few in my collection but it had been years since I'd listened to them. It's lounge music/space age bachelor pad/exotica stuff, so it's not to everyone's taste, but the sonics are absolutely stunning. The width and depth of the soundstage is hard to believe. The two series I have are Provocative Percussion and Persuasive Percussion; there may be more. Even if you don't like the music, they make great demo discs!

David

Tonight was loud for me too:

Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Recording quality in the 70s was all over the map, sometimes even track to track on the same album, but there was a lot of great music made...

David