Whats on your turntable tonight?

Following Slide up with...

Eyelids "The Accidental Falls" 

Jealous Butcher Records

H.C. McEntire "Every Acre" 

2023/Merge

Missing Delores...

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

"Wake Up And Smell The Coffee"

"Remembering Delores"

"Big Day* 

"Dear God" 

both by XTC 

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 

Klemperer conducts Mozart
Horn Concertos

• Concerto No. 2 In E Flat Major, K.417
• Concerto No. 3 In E Flat Major, K.447
• Concerto No. 4 In E Flat Major, K.495
• Concerto No. 1 In D Major, K.412
• Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388

Philharmonia Orchestra with Alvin Civil, solo French Horn
EMI/Angel reissue 1985, originally 1961
 

Pepper Adams – Julian (Inner City 1979)

Superb music and recording. Recommended. 

Ytre Suløens Jass-Ensemble, Barbara Ann Shorts – A Stone For Bessie Smith (Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1987)

The Heifetz & Piatigorsky Concerts

• Spohr - Double String Quartette In D Minor, Op. 65

Jascha Heifetz, 1st violin
Pierre Amoyal, 1st violin
Israel Baker, 2nd violin
Paul Rosenthal, 2nd violin
Milton Thomas, viola
Allan Harshman, viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Laurence Lesser, cello

• Dvořák - Piano Trio In E Minor, Op. 90 ("Dumky")

Jascha Heifetz, violin
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Jacob Lateiner, piano

RCA Red Seal, The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts Series, 1969 

Les Paul & Mary Ford – Hits Of Les And Mary (Capitol 1960)

Tom Waits And Crystal Gayle – One From The Heart - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Of Francis Coppola's Movie (CBS 1982)

Recommend. 

@noromance 

’duophonic’

Gotta love that 😎

Reiner conducts Tchaikovsky 

• Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Jascha Heifetz
RCA Victor Red Seal reissue 1976, originally 1957
 

Sure wish there was a “Like” option here. I see some great music being played tonight! 👍🏼

I got home late.  Started the evening off with…

The Three: Joe Sample, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne 

Following it up with…

A Night at the Vangard: The Kenny Burrell Trio

Not sure where it’ll go from there! 🙂

@bkeske I know! Interesting technical info:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duophonic

@slaw Did you ever get some Holly G?

@jdougs 

The Three: Joe Sample, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne 

Great LP 👍🏼

Not yet @noromance .

Slayer ,Reigning Blood and Ministry , Filth Pig

Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, and Itzhak Perlman - Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary (birthday) Celebration.

Zubin Mehta conducting The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded live at The Lincoln Center.

• Bach - Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins And Orchestra, BWV 1043
• Vivaldi - Concerto In F Major For Three Violins, F. 1, No. 34
• Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante In E-Flat Major For Violin, Viola And Orchestra, K. 364

CBS Masterworks 1981
 

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
 

Klaviermusik Zu Vier Händen
Edvard Grieg

• Symphonische Tänze Über Norwegische Motive Op. 64
• Walzer-Capricen Op. 37
• Symphonische Stücke Op. 14

Hans-Dieter Bauer & Siegfried Schubert-Weber, piano
RBM Records, 1983. 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

Ignaz Moscheles : Michael Ponti, piano

• Piano Concerto In G Minor, Opus 58 with Philharmonia Hungarica, Othmar F. M. Mága conducting
• Etudes, Opus 70 
• Characteristic Etudes, Opus 95 

Candide 1969

Ernest Chausson

• Concerto In D Major, Op. 21 for Piano, Violin and String
• String Quartet ’Unfinished’ Op. 35

The Muir String Quartet

Jean-Philippe Collard, piano

Augustin Dumay, violin

His Masters Voice 1987

Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano / Régis Pasquier, violin / Roland Pidoux, cello :

Ernest Chausson

• Trio Pour Piano, Violon Et Violoncelle, Op. 3
• En Sol Mineur
• Pièce Pour Violoncelle Et Piano, Op. 39 En Do Majeur. 

Harmonia Mundi 1984
 

Martinů - Flute Chamber Music

• Sonata For Flute And Piano
• Madrigalsonate For Flute, Violin And Piano: Poco Allegro
• Madrigalsonate (Forts. V. Seite 1): Moderate
• Sonata For Flute, Violin And Piano. 

Alexandre Magnin, flute / Ralf Gothóni, piano / Philipp Naegele, violin
Magnin, Da Camera Magna 1977, German release
 

Ultravox / The Collection 
1985 Chrysalis 

The Only Ones / Baby’s Got A Gun
1980 Epic

Polyrock / Changing Hearts
1981 RCA

The B-52’s / S-T
1979 Warner Bros.

Terrapin Station

This was from last night’s listening session. As with almost all of my listening sessions, they are a combination of vinyl and digital.

Charles Wourinen (one of my top 5 composers)- Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players, and Ringing Changes for Percussion Ensemble

I tend to listen mostly to the Cello Chamber Concerto more than the percussion piece, but if anyone really wants to evaluate the soundstage and imaging of their system, it would be hard to find a better piece than Ringing Changes. It produces a well defined soundstage, with extremely well defined musicians within it. Very natural sounding.

Musically, it’s pretty angular, thorny sounding, so YMMV.

After the above mentioned Chamber Concerto, I listened to one of the great, lesser known ECM recordings.

From 1976, Art Lande - Rubisa Patrol. With the great, Mark Isham on trumpet.

Lande has some great feel on piano, but loads of chops too.

And finally, I listened to, Arti e Mestieri - Tilt.

This is a near brilliant piece of 70’s Italian prog! This one kind of straddles the line between prog and fusion. With terrifying chops by all members.

For anyone unfamiliar, in the 70’s (and still to this day), Italy produced some of the best prog ever. Many of the best bands (PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Museo Rosenbach, Area, Il Balleto di Bronzo), made prog as good as most of the big British bands (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, etc), but with their own Italian spin on it. This one is maybe just a tiny bit out of the 1st tier of Italian prog, but not by much.

Juilliard String Quartet

• Ives - String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2

CBS Records Masterworks reissue 1985, originally 1967
 

The Budapest String Quartet

• Ravel - Quartet in F Major
• Debussy - Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

Columbia reissue, early 60’s, originally 1958
 

The Cleveland Quartet with Yo-Yo Ma

Schubert - Quintet, Op. 163, D, 956g

CBS Masterworks 1984
 

Wife's birthday so we are listening to Molly Hatchet, Traffic, & Bread.

@markcasazza Nice way to celebrate her birthday!

Gregg Allman / Southern Blood
2017 Rounder

Great music going on here, SQ too.

Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band / Just Like Moby Dick
2020 Paradise Of Bachelors

More great music and sonics.

John Lee Hooker / The Healer
2020 Craft Recordings RE, orig. 1989

Fabulous reissue by Craft Recordings 

from last night

Ronnie Laws "Pressure Sensitive"  Blue Note BN-LA452-G

Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges "Side By Side" Verve MG V-8345 and then "Back To Back" Verve MG V-8317

finale: The Astronauts (hometown band) "Astronauts Orbit Kampus" A-O-K" RCA LSP 2903

David Frizzell & Shelly West-In Session Side 1

Rose Hardaway-It's Time For Rose Hardaway Side B

Joanne Bracken-AFT Side B SQ Audiophile

Son Seals-Chicago Fire Side B

The Marshall Tucker Band-Long Hard Ride(Barcode) Side 2

Neil Diamond-September Morn Side 1 SQ*

Luther Vandross-Busy Body Side B SQ*

Gordon Lightfoot-Don Quixote Side 1

Only unplayed album tonight was Marshall Tucker which also had the worst SQ. Probably due to being a later pressing. Luther and Neil had near Audiophile SQ but after switching around all cables its a tougher call, by Friday I will lock in my best SQ. Quixote could be Gord's best. David/Shelly a dollar bin gem.

The White Stripes / Elephant
2003 Third Man Records

Neil Merryweather / Space Rangers
1974 Mercury