Rozhdestvensky conducts Prokofiev - The Stone Flower. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Melodiya/Angel 1968
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By the way, for you Beth Hart fans (who isn't, on this thread) if you didn't already know, she is releasing a new album on February 25. A Tribute To Led Zeppelin. I can only imagine how well Beth will do those songs. Should be fantastic! She is doing a world concert tour to launch the album. Dates are posted on here official website. You can see the song selections there as well. Preorders for the album are available at Acoustic Sounds. Hope this helps. |
@bkeske Back at you. I bought the The Gabrieli String Quartet! |
👍🏼 Nice to hear regarding the new rig. Enjoy! …….and……probably makes you a little more anxious to get those new speakers 😉 As far as classical? Jump in, the waters fine. I do believe my new Belles Aria Sig pre is really starting to settle in. I may be crazy, but everything I have been playing sounds better than ever before. Maybe it’s just today, and, maybe not. Johnny said to give it 3-4 weeks and it will start ‘opening up’. He might be right. |
Cut-outs, LOL, those are long gone. There was once a record store in Eugene, OR called House Of Records that sold almost nothing but cut-outs and promos. We’d go once a month and buy stacks of cheap records by mostly unknown bands. The following week we’d take stacks of records to Salvation Army. 😂😩 |
Great selection there @mammothguy54 . Look for more Basie, Sims, Edison and Gillespie on Pablo. |
You guys have me more and more interested in getting some quality classical music on vinyl. I have some and need to pull them out and get them through the Degritter. I need to buy more, though. Thanks for all of the good listings. Been playing the new turntable rig, a few yesterday (for the first time) and a few more today. Already a big improvement over my previous rig. And the run-in has only just begun for the cartridge and phono leads. This will be fun, tonight! John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer, Analogue Productions / QRP Basie Jam - a pp issue I secured just a week ago. Third time I have played it. The Motels - All Four One, a very early pp press I have had since its release. David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name, 50th Anniversary edition Jethro Tull - This Was, the Steven Wilson remix |
Britten Conducts English Music For Strings. Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. Purcell - Chacony In G Minor For Strings London 1969
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I have that Blodwyn Pig album. Bought it new in, I believe, 1972. I bought it because of the song, Dear Jill, but the whole album is quite good. I saw them in concert the same year, at The Swing Auditorium, in San Bernardino. Seats were about 12 rows back from the stage and about 15 seats from center. That soprano sax is a unique instrument. It appears straight from mouthpiece to about 70% down, and then takes a rather sharp bend forward. I played my copy about 8 months ago. Now, I'll have to play it again! |
@slaw ....I stand corrected by the Wikipedia.... ‘Dear Jill’ (a favourite of mine to this day) was the next track we laid down and the nice thing about it was that by double-tracking the guitar, which was an Eko 12-string with only 9-10 strings on it (depending on my mood or how many strings I could afford on the day) it sounded akin to a modern chorus effect pedal which, coupled with Jack’s haunting soprano sax, made it into a solid stand up song. It was featured in Cameron Crowe’s movie Almost Famous as part of the background music to reflect the theme and time of the film. I blame myself....and soprano sax isn’t an instrument I’ve had the pleasure to hear ’stood out’ like that often. I’ll go eat some worms.... ;( *L* Done on an 8 track machine of the time.... but even before the remaster Dear Jill is a tasty number....*S* |
@slaw Well, it don't sound like a sax offhand to my ears. Lacking the liner notes, and too lazy to go drilling the 'net to find The Truth, I'll call clarinet and move on. *L* Either way, a great song to stare into one's drink and think back to ones' lost loves. I've registered four or so....one, still a GF, one passed away, one got 'diverted' due to a rapist, and one 'moved on' to due to me being considered 'jive' at the time... No accounting for taste on that last one...'sorry, sweetheart'.....we can't all be brilliant nor perfect... You weren't, either....*wry S* |
Can't recall hearing a clarinet in a song of this style @asvjerry . |
@slaw Agreed, a clean remaster of an old 'fave. *g* Short of a solo, it's so deliciously 'spare'.....a bass, a slid guitar, a 'tick' percussion, a sad clarinet, and a voice full of 'da blues'..... One of my 'test tracks', If the equipment under test can't make your neck hair rise, don't buy it. ;) Happy to share it...*S* Have a great weekend, J |
Tim, Compared to Europe '72, it's outstanding. I heard one of the Dead boxes released in the last few years ('77 era shows) that sound a bit better. I'd rate it 8/10 Sound 10/10 Music (this is supposedly one of the peak shows of the tour that led to Europe '72) |
