On the menu tonight:
Rachmaninoff - "Piano Concerto No. 3" Bryon Janis/Antal Dorati/LSO. Mercury Living Presence 180g reissue
Modest Mouse - "The Moon And Antarctica" |
Planned for this evening... Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (Solti/LSO, Decca SXL 6691) and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Solti/LSO, Decca 6BB 121/2). It's a "big sound" evening. |
TA LKI N GHE ADS SP EAK IN GI N TO NGU ES greats and great sound |
Raytheprinter,
I love "If I had a Rocket Launcher" from that LP! It may not be the most PC in this day and age, but it sounds very good never-the-less. |
I picked up a copy of Bruce Cockburns album"Stealing Fire"for a dollar,its one of the best sounding records I have! |
Tonight
"The Reiner Sound" - Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony RCA LSC 2183 (Classic reissue): Ravel - "Rapsodie Espagnole", "Pavan For A Dead Princess" Rachmaninoff - "Isle Of The Dead"
Grofe - "Grand Canyon Suite" Morton Gould and his Orchestra RCA LSC 2433 (Late pressing)
Stravinsky - "Rite of Spring" Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra Telarc DG-10054 |
Yesterday...
The Beatles "White Album" in 17 different vinyl releases, compliments of a local collector who brought them over for a listen. (We listened to selected cuts from 8 for comparison.) :-)
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "CSN" - comparison of an early original to the Classic Records reissue. Had high hopes for the Classic reissue based on all the comments. In comparison to the original, the Classic was "flat" and uninvolving, largely due to the recessed vocals. The tonal balance on a CD reissue was more true to the original's balance. A disappointment.
Credence Clearwater Revival - "Green River" - the Analogue Productions reissue done by Hoffman and Gray (Acoustech) was excellent (limited only by the less than outstanding sound on the master tape).
"88 Basie Street" - 45rpm reissue from Analogue Productions done by Hoffman and Gray (Acoustech). Superb. And a real pleasure to get back to acoustic instruments after an afternoon of the "less than real." (At last a source suitable for some critical listening a few tweaks to the system.)
Jesse Colin Young, "Soul of a City Boy" - just a single guitar and voice beautifully and simply captured in the studio from 1973. Capitol ST 11267.
Willaert, "Motets" - Rifkin/BostonCamerata, Nonesuch H71345
Schoenberg, "Five Pieces for Orchestra, op16" - Dorati/LSO, Mercury SR 90316 Speakers Corner reissue. (I continue to be amazed.)
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Vinyl bought new this afternoon:
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, "Bow Wow" on Wilma ($8.00)
The Kinsey Report, "Midnight Drive" on Alligator ($8.00)
Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band, "New Orleans" On GNP Crescendo, ($12.00)
Muddy Waters, "King Bee" on Blue Sky ($10.00)
All except the last one are NOS, the Alligator album is a delete with a cut corner. I guess the fact they never were the most popular music around is the reason they were still there for me circa 2004. |
Tonight:
Dire Straits - "Live/Alchemy"
Emerson Lake & Palmer - "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends" |
Last evening:
Coleman Hawkins w/ Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - "Night Hawk". Prestige Swingline 180g reissue. Beautiful recording from 1960 by Rudy Van Gelder.
Handel - "Water Music" Dorati/LSO Mercury Living Presence original.
Sonny Rollins - "Tenor Madness" 180g reissue |
Stephane Grapelli and Barney Kessel |
This evening
Beethoven - Sonatas 14 "Moonlight" No. 21 "Waldstein" No. 23 "Appassionata" Friedrich Gulda. London Treasury STS 15584
Berlioz - "Symphony Fantastique" Barbirolli/Halle Orchestra. Vanguard SRV 181 SD
Bach - "Brandenburg Concertos 1-6" Leppard/English Chamber Orchestra. Philips 6747 166 |
Joe - glad to see you playing the Mendelssohn Speakers Corner reissue. Marvelous record! One of the great Decca recordings. |
Tonight is
EJ Moeran's Cello Concerto, Boult/LPO, Coetmore (vc), Lyrita SRCS 43 (another gorgeous recording by the great J Kenneth Wilkinson)
Beethoven's late String Quartets, beautifully performed by the Vegh Quartet, Telefunken 6.35040 (Number 12 playing as I type this)
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Tonight:
Mendelssohn - "Fingal's Cave", "Symphony No. 3" Decca (Speakers Corner)SXL 2246
Chick Corea & Gary Burton - "Crystal Silence" ECM
Supertramp - "Crime Of The Century" 180g reissue |
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Rock and Roll night at our house:
Creedence Clearwater Revivial - "Cosmo's Factory" Classic Records 180g reissue
Mark Knofler - Soundtrack from "Local Hero"
Joni Mitchell - "Blue"
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - "Deja Vu" 200g reissue
Crosby Stills and Nash - "CSN" 200g reissue
Santana - "Santana" 180g reissue and original pressing
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Tonight its English 20th century composers:
Arnold Bax - "Garden of Fand," "Northern Ballad No.1," "Tintagel" - Boult/LSO, Lyrita SRCS 62
Butterworth - "Banks of Green Willow," "Shropshire Lad" -
Bridge - "There is a Willow Aslant a Brook"
Harty - "John Field Suite"
Dilkes/English Sinfonia, EMI CSD 3696
Moeran - "Conc for Vn & Orch" - Handley/LPO, Lyrita SRCS 105
Nice music to crunch data to... |
Listened to a wide variety of stuff FWIW:-
Brubeck - Brubeck plays Bernstein Plays Brubeck
Spygro Gyra - Access All Areas
Christopher Cross - Chistopher Cross
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Slipknot1: Am thinking of getting "The Koln Concert" by KJ. Is it worth the $25 getting the vinyl or is the ECM CD sonic quality really good for $14??? |
Red Holloway with The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet "Cookin' Together". |
Tonight: an eclectic mix of avant-garde 20th century, Baroque and Classical:
Alan Hacker - "Hymn to the Sun" L'oiseau Lyre DSLO 17, a great clarinetist playing music of Hacker, Birtwhistle, Debussy, Monteverdi, and Schumann.
Baroque Chamber Music of G. and G.B. Sammartini, played beautifully by Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415 in yet another marvelous Harmonia Mundi recording, HMC 1245. (What an incredible record label for lovers of Baroque and Early music!)
Schubert - "Symphony 3 and 6" Kertesz/ViennaPO, Decca SXL 6553 |
This Evening:
Mahler - "Symphony No. 1" Solti/London Symphony Orchestra
Glinka - "Kamarinskya Fantasy" "A Life For The Czar" Ansermet/L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Borodin - "In The Steppes Of Central Asia" Ansermet/L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Chopin-Douglas - "Les Sylphides" von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic |
Tonight for me its:
Paul Simons' old "Hearts and Bones"LP and Dan Fogelberg's "Netherlands"...just finished.... and now for some Michel Legrande's " After the Rain" and Suzanne Vegas great "Solitude Standing" LP... Enjoy everyone! |
Sade, "Diamond Life", still great after all these years... |
Tonight:
Keith Jarrett - "The Koln Concert"
Miles Davis - "Sketches of Spain" 180g reissue
Ray Brown Trio - "Soular Energy" 200g blue vinyl reissue
Gene Ammons - "Blue Gene" 180g reissue |
20th Music fest:
Malcolm Arnold: Oboe Fantasy, Oboe Sonatina, Clarinet Sonatina, Duo for two cellos - Nash Ensemble, Hyperion A66171, A66172, A66173 (I always enjoy exploring Arnold's music, with his wit and wry good humor - excellent recordings by the inestimable "Mr Bear")
Lars Erik Larsson: Concertino for Bassoon and String Orchestra, BIS 40
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Detroit (w/ Mitch Ryder)
David Lindley - El Rayo-X
Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
R.E.M. - Eponymous
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
John Fahey - The Best Of
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
Rained this afternoon |
One more to add:
k.d. laing and the reclines - "Absolute Torch and Twang" |
Tonight's specials are:
Respighi - "Church Windows" 45 rpm Reference Recordings
Mickey Hart/Airto - "Dafos" 45 rpm Reference Recodings
Vivaldi/Bach - "Sonatas & Concertos" Albert Fuller/Helicon Ensemble 33 1/3 rpm Reference Recordings
Jennifer Warnes - "Famous Blue Raincoat" |
Lucinda Williams World Without Tears
a great new album on vinyl! |
There's a meetin here tonight -- Joe and Eddie, and Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms |
So far this evening:
Paul Simon - "There Goes Rhymin' Simon"
Mendelssohn - "Hebrides Overture" and "Symphony 3", Maag/LSO, Decca 45rpm Speakers Corner reissure (Stunning! An absolutely incredible recording by Kenneth Wilkinson and a suberb reissue)
Coming a bit later:
Sonny Rollins - "Saxophone Colossus" (Analogue Productions reissue) |
We are tuning up the room and today we are serving:
Mahler - "Symphony No. 4 in G Szell/Cleveland Orchestra
Rory Block - "Rhinestones and Steel Strings"
Thelonius Monk - "Brilliant Corners" Riverside Mono pressing
Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" MFSL pressing and 30th Anniversary pressing |
Rush,
No kidding! I had that same recording of Church Windows in my hands tonight, and replaced it with Coffee Cantata.
We'll have to get you and Ann over for dinner when we get closer to the final room layout. |
Joe, I am consistently struck by how closely our music tastes match. We definitely need to get from one side of the river to the other to further explore each other's music libraries!
Tonight:
Resphigi's Church Windows, Reference Recordings
Holst Planets, Previn/LSO, EMI (my favorite of this)
Nancy Griffith, Last of the True Believers (playing now)
The Coffee Cantata (same performance) was on the table last week. |
Tonight's menu:
Shostakovich - "Symphony #12 "1917"" Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic
John Coltrane - "Blue Train" 200g reissue
Bach - "Kaffe-Kantate" (coffee cantata)Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus Wien
Holst - "The Planets" von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic |
Motorhead-Iron Fist (really loud) |
"Sea Change" by Bedroom Heroes, "O" by Damien Rice |
ÂRonald Shannon Jackson & Decoding Society: Decode This
ÂHank Mobley: Straight No Filter
ÂDrive-by Truckers: Southern Rock Opera
ÂFranscisco Aguabella: H2O |
Pink Floyd "Animals" and The Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions" followed up with Dire Straits "Brother's in Arms."
It was a good night. |
"Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy", Chess reissued by Speaker's Corner. |
Last night
James Boyk - Debussy/Stravinsky/Schoenberg/Ravel
Black Uhuru - Chill Out
Judy Mowatt - Working Wonders
Bruno Walter - Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Bruce Coburn - Dancing in the Dragons Jaws |
Last night spun these instead of playing w/ the computer:
Stooges - 1st - orig. press
Bowie - Ziggy - MFSL
Love - Four Sail - orig. press
Traffic - John Barleycorn - UA reissue
Pink Floyd - Meddle - orig. press
Sort of a psychadelic evening. |
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On my Linn: still working my way through some of the incredible jazz LPS Scott Campbell sold me last year when he was freeing up space on his shelves. Thanks again, Scott, it will take me the rest of the year to really listen to all the LPs I bought from you! |
Beatles MSFL Sgt. Peppers just to make sure of its condition before I sold it. |
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Larry Coryell..."Dragongate" |
just rehooked up the Counterpoint Sa9 into the main rig taking in signals from a GyroDec, Linn Ittok, Lyra Clavis..
for me its White Stripes, Elephant
and Eric Clapton, Unplugged |
I'm in a bad mood, just one of these days..... probably Slayer. Sorry, neighbours! |
