D__n Rushton you got some good stuff!
Significant other is out of town this weekend.Had a serious listening session tonight with my best audiophile buddy.Trading cables and phono stages.Fun.
Chris Isaak "Heart Shaped World"
Benjamin Britten "St. Nicholas" Kings College,Willcocks
Dave Brubeck "Impressions of New York"
Janis Ian "Between the Lines"
Gilbert and Sullivan "Pirates of Penzance" with Kevin Kline and Linda Rhonstadt
Shostakovitch "Concerto for Piano,Trumpet and Orchestra"/ Shostakovitch/Shostakovitch-Chandos
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Liszt, Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Kondrashin/MoscowPO, Byron Janis, Mercury SR 90329 (Speakers Corner reissue)
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Horace Silver Quintet - "Song For My Father" [Blue Note]
Bill Evans Trio - "Portraits In Jazz" [Riverside]
More piano! |
Just picked up Free Flight's "The jazz/classical union. A very interesting fusion of calssical pieces such a a Paganini Pavane,a Bach "groove",Pachebel's canon, and a Chopin etude.
$3.99
Very enjoyable listening with great playing and improvisation.
Also just picked up a Joni Mitchell I had never heard of.
"Shadows and Light"
This LP features Jaco Pastorius on Bass,Pat Metheny on Guitar,and others.
A 2 LP live set from 1980 when Joni was beginning her exploration into jazz on the "Mingus" tour. It starts with a collage of Joni doing her songs with a significant jazz influence backed by first class players intermixed with old movie tracks. Kind of a "Miles of Aisles" on art steroids. The Joni tunes are from "Blue","Hissing of Summer Lawns","Hejira","Mingus". A definite departure from the pop money making routine she was seduced into in "Court and Spark". Excellent recording and pressing.
Very entertaining.
$7.99 at Everybody's records in Cincinnati. |
Van Morrison's, "A Period of Transition". I love this guy! |
Rush, I stand corrected. I have read your posts that you so thoughtfully have written. Mr. Salvatore's web site is a regular stop for me. I agree with him in most ways and he responds to emails.
It would be nice to get together sometime and listen.I am sure we would both enjoy ourselves.
cheers
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e, we continue to agree about Hyperion and Proprius. Over the years, I've tended to watch for certain recording engineers and have rarely been disappointed with the work by a number whom I value highly, starting with Kenneth Wilkinson. See the following thread on Labels and Recording Engineers to which we've both contributed in the past. As to the Decca stamper letters, I believe "G" stands for Ted Burkett, one of the best Decca mastering engineers. See Arthur Salvatore's comments about the "G" "W" and "K" mastering engineer designations. Cheers, |
Rushton, once again I agree with you 100%, and I would add Hyperion and Proprius to my favorites. For the combination of high quality recordings and performances it is hard to beat the London/Decca/Argo label. The K.Wilkinson pressings of course are most revered. You know to look for a "G" at the end of the stamper number? G= Kenneth Wilkinson.
Just got a EMI/Angel 45rpm of Respighi "Pines of Rome".This may be the best Angel I have heard. Incredible dynamics and very fine playing of a exciting piece.Complete with birds chirping!
The new DIY SUT is really working!
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1's and 0's...
Jim Hall - "Hallmarks: The Best Of" [Concord/Telarc 2CD '06] Collection from Milestone and Concord Jazz albums circa '71-'01
Joe Henderson - "Page One" [Blue Note RVG ed. '63/'99] Wonderfully enjoyable set featuring Kenny Dorham and McCoy Tyner
The Kelly Brothers - "Sactified Southern Soul" [Excello/AVI '96] Fantastic collection of Sims and Excello label singles from lesser-known 60's three-piece vocal group
The Mad Lads - "In Action" [Collectibles/Rhino '66/'99] Volt album reissue + 4 bonus tracks sweet Memphis group soul, sheer perfection and original demented cartoon cover art
Bach: Cello Suites - Ralph Kirshbaum cello [Virgin Classics 2CD '94/'99] |
e, my three favorite labels are Decca, Harmonia Mundi and Lyrita. With most of their recordings, these three labels capture exceptionally natural and realistic renderings of acoustic performances.
A common denominator for Lyrita and Decca is Kenneth Wilkinson, a recording engineer whom I greatly admire when allowed to follow his own aesthetic values, as is most consistently reflected the work he did for Lyrita. What an incredible legacy.
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Rushton:
The first time I heard the ship's horn I laughed out loud!
I love Lyritas. As you know I am a true Anglophile.I could kick myself for not buying more of them back when they were easy to get.Try to pick up the Bliss if you can,you will surely love it.
Playing with my DIY SUT transformers.They have truly changed my system.wow!
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e, you're right, I would love them. I have the Bax on Lyrita. I'm always impressed with how good the MHS issues are. The Victory at Sea is simply great fun, isn't it? |
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight. Great songs on a really decent sounding rock LP. I love the chords from the albums title track. And Robins' voice. Greatest singer in rock. Your opinion may differ. |
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Where is the Half-Priced bookstore you go to located? |
Just picked up several lps at Half-Priced bookstore. Here are my really good fines:
Victory at Sea #1. Ship's cannons firing salvos all over the place.Ship's horns blowing and even moving across the sound stage. Music akin to Elgar symphonic tone poems.Super pressing.
Carousel. 35mm recording of Richard Rogers Broadway classic.Incredible sonics. Great singers including Roberta Peters and Norman Treagle. The singers actually move across the sound stage as they sing.I have never heard anything like it.Paid $1.98 in near mint condition.
MHS/Lyrita of Bax symphony #6.
MHS/Lyrita of Bliss "Meditations on a theme by John Blow".
both of these have very good presence and sonics ala Lyrita.
Mint condition for $2.98 each.
Phoebe Snow debut album. VG++ condition
Wonderful pressing,deep sound stage with her amazing and unique voice. $2.98
Rushton, you would love these.
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Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 1
Walton, Cello Concerto
-- Berglund/BournmouthSO, Paul Tortelier, cello, EMI ASD 2924
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ZAO "Shekina"
EAST "Jatekok" rare English version (Smacky gots both versions because Smacky is a Prog Guru.) |
Thank you, Emorrisiv. The RVW Mass is a lovely piece and you're listening to a favorite performance. Beautifully recorded for Hyperion by Antony Howell.
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Rushton, thanks for the invitation.I will return the same if you ever find yourself in Cincinnati,Ohio please give me a message. I listen all the time and would love to have you and the same goes for slipknot.
Just rebuilt my Hafler 220 and it is blowing my mind. All new caps and 80% more saturation in the power caps.So much more air and nuance plus a much lower sound floor. I am a happy camper.The Acoustats are really singing now.
listening to Corydon Singers performing Ralph Vaughn Williams
"Mass in G",Howells Requiem on Hyperion. I bought this when it came out back in the early 80s.Amazing recording and sublime music.
cheers
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The Hot Spot [Original Soundtrack] with Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker, Roy Rogers, Earl Palmer and Tim Drummond. - Antilles/AP 45RPM
The original Antilles vinyl was rare and beautiful (Sounded excellent) but friends, this is a stunning line up and a soundtrack that only a Dennis Hopper movie could have had a hand in... Don't wait too long or the Antilles/AP 45 RPM version will be history too and you still won't have a copy in your library. The pressing quality and mastering are what Analogue Productions is so well known for, in a word, outstanding. This is another title that Chad of Acoustic Sounds and Acoustic Productions hunted down for years to repress for everyone else. Bravo! Chad Cheers!
Happy Listening! |
New Dire Straits debut LP 180 gram remaster. Sounds very good but not sure I like it better than the Phonogram 1/2 speed remaster import from several years ago. Funny thing is that my Straits LP is 11.99 inches and not 12 inches in diameter. My VPI peripheral ring keeps falling off one edge of the record!
Also listening to:
Thelonius Monk - Something in Blue
The The - Mindbomb (great and underrated LP)
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model MFSL release |
Emorrisiv, I agree that we seem to travel similar paths musically. It would be a lot of fun to get together and share some music. If you're ever near Richmond, Virginia, you have an open invitation to join me here! I think we will also find Slipknot1 traveling along many of the same roads with us.
Cheers! |
Rushton: I love most of your recordings. We could have a good time together listening. The Holst Savitri is a very interesting piece, and with Janet Baker how can you lose?
I have the Shostakovitch piano concerto on Chandos with the son conducting and the grandson playing the piano.A really fine LP even though it is a digital master. The ever popular FBR is always fun.Love "Joan of Arc. Though I prefer my original issue over the reissue. Of course that is IMHO.
Keep up the great listening and listing.
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Rushton-
That recording is on my shopping list.
Tonight:
Mahler "Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"" Mehta/Vienna PO (Super Analogue Disc KIJC 9139/40 reissue of the original London)
David Gilmour "Live in Gdansk" (Columbia 88697344701 DC1) 5 LP set of 8/26/06 concert at the Gdansk shipyard in Poland
Wrapping the evening up with:
Bill Evans Trio "Moonbeams" (Riverside RLP-9428) |
Stunned again tonight by how incredibly good this record is:
"Power of the Orchestra: Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition," RCA VICS 2659 -45 (45 rpm reissue from Analogue Productions) (The Kenneth Wilkinson engineering is simply awe inspiring in this superb new 45 rpm mastering.)
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Britten's Prince of the Pagodas, a thrift shop find for a buck (I talked them down to 50 cents) looked unplayed and sounds wonderful even though it's tas listed. (2 discs, London Treasury (orange label) sts-15081/2. |
MacDadTX -
Don't feel guilty! Check out my new year's 'revival':
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
The Blue Nile - Walk Across the Rooftops
Pyschedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
The Clash - London Calling
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
By the way - you ought to find the Arcadia album (Simon Lebon's answer to Power Station). Incredible bass and music. Rather well recorded too. |
Bkonig,
No I haven't. I will though.
Do you have, Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderly, her first album???
Circa 1962--it has THE DIFINITIVE VERSION of, "I Can't Get Started". He does things that only Charlie Parker or MAYBE Phil Woods (without the soul) could have done. It's amazing.
Capital Album, it's available on CD as a re-release. I really wish they'd remaster that.
Great TASTE man!
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Years ago, Jim THIEL gave me a Sting Album with the song,
"There's a Moon Over Bourbon Street" on it, for my birthday. That's on...love it.
I always think of him when I play it. Nice gift!
Larry |
I just played the stereo version of Cannonball's 'Somethin Else' on Classic clarity vinyl (4 sided 45 RPM). Unbelievable music, recording and pressing. Anyone out there try other titles on Clarity vinyl? |
Shelley Manne & Friends, "Modern Jazz Performances Of Songs From My Fair Lady"
Louis Armstrong, "Live from the Crescent, Vol 1"
Charles Mingus / Thad Jones, "Jazz Collaborations, Vol. 1"
Art Pepper, "Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section"
Eiji Kitamura, "Swing Sessions"
Rossini, Overtures - Gamba/LSO
Rossini, Overtures - Chung/Orch Accademia N. di S.Cecilia
Holst, "Savitri"
Rossini-Respighi, "La Boutique Fantasque" Ansermet
Enescu, Sonata for Violin & Pf No. 3 in Romanian Folkstyle"
Arne Domnerus, "Antiphone Blues"
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The Greatest - Cat Power on Matador
freaking beautiful!
Morrison Hotel - The Doors on reissue Elektra
Nice sonics, excellent reissue.
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Co. with Janis Joplin on six eye Stereo Columbia
RIP James, your licks are still top notch.
Crescent - John Coltrane Quartet Impulse/ORG 45RPM reissue.
what can I say that hasn't been said...
Happy New Year all and Happy Listening! |
Yesterday with friends over...
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, with Horowitz and Ormandy
Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 6 and 11, with Berglund/EMI
Jennifer Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat, Cisco reissue
Paul Winter Consort, Roads
Natalie Merchant "Tiger Lily," Mobile Fidelity
Holst, Savitri with Janet Baker, Argo
Shostakovich Piano Concerto, Bernstein on piano
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I'm rockin' Joe Meek-I Hear A New World on LP now. |
Philb7777,
I must admit that after reading your post, in response to my admission to listening to the Producers, I went to the garage and grabbed the following albums, steam/Walker Solutions, cleaned them then had a very guilty '80's listening session:
The Power Station
Duran Duran - Rio
The Outfield - Play Deep
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
ahh, it feels good to get that off my chest, I've been feeling so guilty. |
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I messed up on the album title...but the track, Private Investigations is definitely one of my favorites. Glad you like it too. I have a vinyl copy of Local Hero...haven't played it in a while. I will have to it out. Merry Christmas to you. |
Al Green - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppenlin - II (unopened, green Mexican pressing from '81, pretty cool), IV (orginal '71 pressing, in great shape after a 3rd cleaning)
Cassandra Wilson - Loverly
Radiohead - Pablo Honey, new but with a significant warp, thank God for the periphery ring.
Tears for Fears - Seeds of Love (like new), Songs from the Big Chair
Badfinger - Straight Up, not a great copy, but hard to find a good one
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin (one of my all time Fav's) |
Ghosthouse: The Dire Straits "Private Investigations" has become a reference for some of us in our local club.It seems to me that all the Dire Straits recordings are excellent; low noise floor and very nuanced and uncompressed,but the "Love Over Gold" is the best of all.
I just got a nice copy of Mark Knopfler's music of the film
"Local Hero". Again,low sound floor,nuanced and uncompressed sounding.
There is a track where the beginning is a old car(bad muffler) starts up that can startle anyone (and usually does).
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Well, Merry Christmas vinyl lovers...
Last night we tried in vein to get through the
Orphans box set by Tom Waits on ANTI Records
Huge box, 7 Lps, nice!
and again, A lot of great vinyl has being mentioned on this thread over the years, if you love some titles that are either very rare on vinyl these days or have never been pressed, please add them to the "Wish List For Vinyl Pressings" here on AudioGon...
Happy Listening! |
Ralph Towner - Solo Concert
Dire Straits - Private Investigations (side 1)
Dire Straits - Eponymous (side 1) |
Music is what sustains us, is it not?
Today:
Handel's Messiah with McGegan and The PhilharmoniavBaroque with the incomparable Lorraine Hunt (a glorious performance only available on CD, unfortunately)
Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1, Abbado/LSO, Argerich -pf, DGG 139 383
Sibelius, Symphony No. 2, Barbirolli/RPO, Chesky reissue
Joan Baez, "Any Day Now - Songs of Bob Dylan," Vanguard VSD 79306/7 (Well, the first LP of two. By then she wore me out.)
Bill Monroe, "7th Annual Bluegrass Festival at Bean Blossom" MCA 2-8002 (great music making!)
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Truly excellent list Rushton.
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Prokofiev, Piano Conc No. 3, Kondrashin/MoscowPO, Byron Janis,
Rachmaninov, Piano Conc No. 1, Kondrashin/MoscowPO, Byron Janis,
.. Mercury SR 90300 Speakers Corner reissue
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8, Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 4, Borodin Quartet
.. Mercury SR 90309, Speakers Corner reissue
Working my way through the 5LP box set of the recordings made by Mercury as the "First recordings ever made in the Soviet Union by American technical and musical staff and equipment. Recorded by Mercury on location in Moscow." What a set!
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The Producers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, i thought I was the only one. I like their debut record better than You Make the Heat though. What a great power pop band. I picked up both copies of their first two records in mint condition last week for $3 each. The vinyl store I bought them in had them in the 'Lunch Money' section. What a find!
Only power pop band of the late 70's / early 80's that I liked better was 20/20. |
Just wonderful performances and recordings, aren't they!
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Rushton, I love your last 3 choices!
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New Norah Jones - it's OK, I don't remember the title if that says anything
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood, sublime
Areatha Franklin - Live at the Filmore East
The Producers - You Make the Heat (very guilty pleasure)
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings |
Elvis Presley "Elvis is Back!" (Speakers Corner reissue)
Frank Sinatra "Songs for swingin' lovers" (Capitol gray label)
Stefan Wolpe "Trio" for flute, piano and cello, CRI 233
Beethoven "Archduke Trio" Barenboim, du Pre, Zukerman, EMI ASD 2572
Victoria de los Angeles "Zarzuela Arias," EMI ASD 2415 (superb)
Vivaldi "Gloria in D Major," Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO 554
The Organ in St Dominic's Priory London, Thomas Murray organist, Vista VPS 1069 (these Vista organ recordings are always incredibly good!)
The Cozens Lute Book, Anthony Rooley, L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO 510 (outstanding)
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I've just spun Kaleidoscope (the American band featuring David Lindley) Side Trips c 1967, rereleased, picked up at a record show, mostly because of an affinity for Lindley's post Jackson Browne stuff. i have a feeling Mr. Bungle might have played it. Now I gotta check out Zaikesman's Brit band of the same name....... |
Thanks Z: I agree with you completely. The loading has is giving me a much more defined sound stage,not to mention deeper and wider and taller. I feel that I am close in that there is still tremendous heft and power in the fundamentals.Bass lines are just as full as before but tighter,easier to follow. I feel that the loading has lowered the sound floor so much that EVERYTHING is better. Indeed I have never had a better system.
I am listening to records as though I have never heard them before. Old chestnuts are no longer old because I have never heard the inner details and nuances like this.
now for what I am listening to tonight:
Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick"
Christy Moore "Ordinary Man"
Kings College "Durafle Requiem"
Sphere "Flight Path"
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