Early start tonight:
Wagner, Parsifal, Solti/LPO, Frick/Fisher-Dieskau/Hotter/Ludwig, London OSA 1510 (only listened to 1st Act, more later... What a cast!)
Sileas, Delighted with Harps, Green Linnett SIF 3039
(wire and gut strung Scottish harp and voice)
Laudate II, DrottingholmBarEns, Anne Sofie von Otter, Proprius PROP 7860 |
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Tonight:
The Best of Missippi John Hurt, Vanguard VSD 19/20
Johnny Cash, The Singing Story Teller, Sun 115
The Byrds, Untitled, Columbia CG 30127
Coming up:
Robert Lukas, Usin' Man Blues, Audioquest 1001
Janis Joplin, Full Tilt Boogie, Columbia 30322
... an eclectic music collection is a joy :^) betcha didn't expect to find these in my collection... |
Tonight:
Vivaldi - "Four Seasons" Von Karajan/Berlin (Deutsche Grammophon DG 2530 296)
Bill Evans Trio - "Sunday At The Village Vanguard" (Riverside 9376/Classic Records 180g reissue)
Respighi - "Ancient Airs & Dances" Philharmonica Hungarica/Dorati (Mercury Golden Import SRI 75009) |
Rushton- Thanks. Yes. There is nothing quite like spending an evening around Vinyl!! :)....Ken |
Ken - glad to hear you've got your vinyl rig back in action! |
Brucker - Sym 6 & 7 - Jochum/Dresden on EMI
Jacqueline du Pre - A J.DuPre Recital, EMI HQS 1437
... (so good I couldn't bear to play something else thereafter; just sitting and savoring it)
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TT gear is up and running. Back in the saddle..1 week without Vinyl is almost more than I can stand..Tonight is celebration night. A quick spin of Michel Legrands"After the Rain" then Harry Chapin's Heads and Tails...ending up the evining with Leontyne Price singing "El Amor Brujo" and "Les Nuits D'ete" Fritz Reiner...Chicago LSC 2695 |
Prokofieff - "Lieutenant Kije" Reiner/Chicago (Chesky RC10, the spelling of Prokofiev is Chesky's, not mine)
Bill Evans Trio - "Moonbeams" (Riverside 9428 180g Classic Records reissue)
A couple of CD's as well:
Dead Can Dance - "Toward The Within" (4AD 9 45769-2)
Cantus - "...Against The Dying Of The Light" (Cantus Recordings CTS-1202) |
Original issue Ray Charles! Yes, I actually have some 60s-issue vinyl from the No. 1 Soulman his own self! Thanks be to my father: R.I.P!! Et les duex . . . |
The Sheffield/Leinsdorf/LA LPs are underappreciated. The Prokofiev "Romeo and Juliet" recording on Sheffield LAB 8 is particularly good, imo. |
Wellll-
The surface of the reissue is quieter, no doubt due in part to the fact that my original is a little beat up. Dynamics and soundstage are still there though. I'd say we have another winner reissue. I'm prejudice though as I love the performance. I feel the Sheffield/Leinsdorf/LA direct-to-disc recording still has the edge with respect to swings in dynamics and impact. But, the Mercury wins hands down for emotion and performance. |
And...??? What did you think after listening to an original vs. this reissue of the Firebird? |
Stravinsky - "Firebird Complete Ballet" Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR90226/Classic Records 200g reissue)
Stravinsky - "Firebird Complete Ballet" Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR90226 original pressing)
Comparing the original to the Classic Records reissue |
Tonight is:
~ Shostakovich - Sym 1/Bolt Ballet, Martinon/LSO, RCA LSC 2322 (Classic Records reissue)
~ Shostakovich - Str Qt 8, Borodin Qt, Decca SXL 6036 (Speakers Corner reissue - marvelous)
~ Verdi, Requiem, Reiner/VPO, Price, Tozzi, RCA LDS 6091 (Soria)
~ Ravel, Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose), Skrowaczewski/MinnO, Reference Recordings Master Cuts RM 1004 (reissue of Vox)
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nothing without amplifiers being upgraded been gone 4 weeks this Wednesday,they are now waiting for testing I feel your pain Kehut |
Nothing...I am without a cart and phono pre until the new ones arrive next weeK...Oh the pain!! |
Last night,
Rachmaninoff - "Isle of the Dead" Reiner/CSO (RCA LSC2183 Classic Records reissue)
Enescu - "Sonata No. 3 in Rumanian Folkstyle" Able/Steinberg (Wilson Audiophile W-8315)
Rachmaninoff - "Piano Concerto No. 3" Janis/Dorati/LSO (Mercury SR90283 Speakers Corner reissue)
Listed these before, but they are familar to me as I am trying out a pair of Synergistic Research Signature 10X speaker cables.
Also 1 CD: Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyrinth" |
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1, Concertgebouw/Haitink on Philips 9500 777 bought sealed for $5.99 CAD. Now I have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th (already had that last one but how can I remember albums bought twenty-five years ago?) purchased at the same time, sealed and for the same price, to listen to. Seems someone had discovered my stash before me and liked the 5th enough to buy it. Oh well could not buy them all, although I tried and wound up with fifty-five of these NOS Philips and DGG. Strange what you can find in the basement of used record shops! |
Brand new copy of Vivaldi, "Le Quattro stagioni" Gidon Kremer, LSO Claudio Abbado. DGG 2531 287. I like it much better than the other recording I have on CD that uses period instruments by The Academy of Ancient Music. |
Kenny Dorham's "Whistle Stop" |
Early music tonight:
. Esther Lamandier, "Decameron" Astree AS 56
. Martin Best, "The Dante Troubadours" Nimbus 45017
. Joculatores Upsalienses, "Early Music a Wik" BIS LP 3
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Ian & Sylvia's "So much for Dreaming"..Original 60's Vanguard Stereo. |
Ah, the Enescu Sonata: wonderful piece. Next time you can come over, Joe, let me introduce you to the Radu Lupu performance of this work in a characterful performance that captures some of the true Rumanian character of the work. Captivating.
Tonight has been:
Mississippi John Hurt, in concert at Oberlin from 1965 on a Vanguard LP
Burt Deivert and Eric Bibb, "River Road," Opus 3 8017
Therese Juel, "Levande," Opus 3 7917
Harry James, "The King James Version," Sheffield LAB 3 |
Enescu - "Sonata No. 3 In Romanian Folkstyle" David Abel, violin / Julie Steinberg, piano (Wilson Audiophile W-8315)
Delius - "Music of Delius" Sir Thomas Beecham/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Seraphim S-60165)
Miles Davis - "Sketches of Spain" (Columbia PC 8271/Classic Records 200g reissue) |
Handel's Apollo and Daphne, McGegan/PhilharmoniaBaroque, Judith Nelson, Harmonia Mundi HM 10067 (another superb engineering job by Peter McGrath)
Sammartini's Symphony in A, Concerto in C, Slovak Chamber Orchestra in a marvelous recording on Klimo OW 006 (coupled with Vivaldi concertos). If you love baroque music and you haven't discovered the six LPs made by Klimo (the German tube equipment mnaufacturer), get them if you ever see them. They are all wonderfully recorded with lovely performances. |
ben harper "fight for your mind" from the french box set, the beatles "white album" russian pressing, and lucinda williams "world without tears." |
Yes, cat was cryoed and while still frozen, we used his wiskers to play the LP's. That's the only way to get them stiff enough for 1.9 grams track force. |
Was the cat still on the turntable? Maybe a new tweak you picked up on? I sure hope the cat is not cryoed? Good day. |
Ahhhhh. Our Tuesday night listening session.
Really mixed bag of tunes this evening, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Johnny Cash, The White Stripes, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Jimmy Reed, Eminem, Keith Jarrett and Charlie Hayden, Bill Evans, Buena Vista Social Club and Frank Sinatra. |
A gospel sampler
The Dixie Hummingbirds - We Love You Like A Rock
Jack Johnson - On and On
All digital |
Didn't light up the system until late tonight but I got in
Mozart - "Requiem" Corboz/Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon w/Elly Ameling, Barbara Scherler, Louis Devos, Roger Soyer (RCA AGL1-1533) |
Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings- Old Blue Note pressing mastered by Van Gelder. Sound is big, warm, sweet and beautiful. |
All day today has been a music fest with friends over music and visiting. A sampling of what was on the turntable includes:
Telemann, Tafelmusik, BkIII, Bruggen/ConAmsterdam, Telefunken 6.35064
Laudate II, DrottingholmBarEns, UppsalaAcKammarkor, Anne Sophie von Otter, Proprius PROP 7860
La Spagna, Paniagua/AtrmMMadrid, BIS LP 163/164
Baroque Music for Cornett, Klimo OW 004
Kodaly, Sonata for Cello, Helmerson -vc, BIS LP 25
Cantus Gregorianus (chant), Claire/AbbeyStPierreSolesmes, SuperAnalogue 9165
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3, Pinnock/EnglishConcert and Britten/ECO |
Pbb -- any more where that came from? For me tonight is Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez directed by Argenta with Yepes on the geetar. An old Decca orange label. |
Josef Haydn - "Seven Last Words Of Christ, Op.51" Amadeus Quartet (Westminster XWN 18055)
J.S. Bach - "Orchestral Suites" Linde-Consort (EMI/Angel SB-3943) |
GOOD ONE ALBERT! Now turn it on and tell us what happens:^)
There's nothing on mine for the next two weeks. We're re- facing the fireplace in marbel, then we are going to re-do the floor in pergo.
My whole system is down right now, it could be two weeks before I'm back up and running. |
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Unfortunately nothing, I don't have a turntable yet. The wife says I have to wait until July to get one. I'm protesting and buying records anyway. I stack them up on top of my CD player hoping the vinyl sound will trickle in somehow. |
Shostakovich - "String Quartet No. 15," Fitzwilliam Qt on L'Oiseau Lyre
"Early Music at Wik" - Joculatores Upsalienses, BIS LP 3 |
A bunch of DGG and Philips albums I recently got for $5.99 a piece, brand new and sealed. Actually they were samples that probably disappeared from circulation since 1980. Among the lot my favourite is Dvorak Symphony No 9, Concertgebow, Colin Davis, Philips 9500 511. The surfaces are remarkable, leading to me to believe that the proper pressing of vinyl is a very European art that is lost and has little to do with making the vinyl thicker and charging $40.00 for it. |
Sonny Rollins Quartet - "Tenor Madness" (Prestige LP 7047/Classic Records reissue)
Dire Straits - "Love Over Gold" (Warner 23728-1)
Rachmaninoff - "Isle Of The Dead" Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA LSC 2183/Classic Records reissue |
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority. All 4 sides. My first listen in a loooong time and I had forgotten what a great LP it is. |
Cannonball Adderley - "Know What I Mean" Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue of Riverside 9433
Prokofiev - "Lt. Kije" Reiner/CSO
Stravinsky - "Song of the Nightingale"
... both on Classic Records' reissue of RCA LSC 2150
(I love the Reiner/CSO performance of Lt. Kije, but the Song of the Nightingale is the recording engineering's masterpiece on this record.)
Simon and Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
And coming up -
Shostakovich - "String Quartet No. 8" played by the Fiztwilliam Quartet on L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO 11.
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Handel - "Messiah" in a small group performance by Christophers/The Sixteen, Hyperion A66251/2
The Oslo Consort (harpsichord, transverse flute, baroque guitar) playing music of the baroque period by Couperin, Monteclair, Piccinini, Quagliata, Riccio - Simax PS 1006 (such a delightfully recorded harpsichord) |
Bach - "Concerto For Violin and Oboe" Kapp/Ravina/Roseman Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York
Boismortier - "Sonatas For Flute and Harpsichord" Robin Hendrich/Philip Kraft
Haydn - "The Cello Concertos" Robinson/Harnoy Toronto Chamber Orchestra |
A near mint of Mercury Living Presence Ernst Bloch Concerto Grosso 1&2 performed by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony. Price marked: sixty five cents. |
Thanks, Joe. Each of the Speakers Corner Mercury reissues I've heard thus far have been excellent. Appears that this one is following in that same pattern. Another to add to the "want list." |
Rush,
I don't own a copy of the original Merc pressing, but have heard one in good condition a few times. I will say that the reissue is pretty faithful to the original in sound, maybe a tad brighter, with the double basses sounding a little more recessed. What can I say about Janis' reading of this piece? He is a brilliant performer, and all his emotive playing comes to the fore here. From the trills, to running the keyboard. An excellent outing from what I hope will be many more reissues from the Living Presence series. |
I'll be interested in your comment on the Rachmaninoff Mercury reissue, if you're willing to offer one, Joe. |
