Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Szell conducts Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1. The Cleveland Orchestra with Gary Graffman, piano. Columbia Masterworks 1969
 

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley.  I think this copy sounds better than the MFSL I played the other night.

Rolling Stones / Tattoo You
2021 Promotone RE, orig. 1981

Way better SQ than you’d expect from a Stones album

 

Roxy Music / Avalon
2022 Virgin half-speed master, orig. 1982

Like “A Night At The Opera”, fantastic sonics

Queen / A Night At The Opera
2000 DCC Compact Classics RE #1322, orig. 1976

Remastering by Steve Hoffman using VAC Renaissance one-forty monoblocs

Listening to Cass McCombs, Tip Of The Sphere (Deluxe Edition) in HR. 
Sounds kind of like something David Bowie might of done if he were still around.

 

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

1958 original stereo pressing on Riverside

Szell conducts Dvořák (Szell’ last recording)

  • Symphony No. 8 (Old No. 4) In G, Op. 88
  • Slavonic Dance In E Minor, Op. 72, No. 2
  • Slavonic Dance In A Flat, Op. 46, No. 3

The Cleveland Orchestra 
Angel 1970
 

 

Szell conducts 

  • Mendelssohn - Incidental Music To "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
  • Schubert - Incidental Music To "Rosamunde"

The Cleveland Orchestra 
Columbia Masterworks reissue early 70’s (I believe), originally 1967
 

Szell conducts ‘Two Musical Fables’

  • Kodály - Háry János Suite
  • Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé Suite. 

The Cleveland Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks early 70’s.
 

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Strauss

  • Ein Heldenleben

The Cleveland Orchestra
London 1985 
 

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Original 1965 orange label pressing on Impulse . Perfect sound, perfect music.

Sting-The Dream Of The Blue Turtles-Side 1

Glen Campbell-Houston Side 1

Red Holloway & Company(CJ-322) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Fleetwood Mac-Tusk Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Isaac Hayes-Hot Buttered Soul Side 2

Jethro Tull-The Broadsword And The Beast Side 1

Tchaikovsky-Symphony No.6(MS 6006 Six Eye) Side 1+2 SQ Audiophile

Makoto Ozone-After Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Everything sounded above average tonight. The SQ crown goes to Tchaikovsky. Many of the original Stereo Six Eye recordings have a very wide soundstage. Glen Campbell released many subpar recordings but Houston is top level. 

Maazel conducts

  • Night On Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky/Ravel

The Cleveland Orchestra
Telarc 1979

Boulez conducts Ligeti

  • Chamber Concerto
  • Ramifications
  • Aventures
  • Nouvelles Aventures

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Deutsche Grammophon 1983
 

 

Boulez conducts Berlioz 
Symphony Fantastique, Op. 14
The London Symphony Orchestra 
Columbia Masterworks 1971
Radio Station Copy
 

Boulez conducts Ravel

  • Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2
  • Pavane For A Dead Princess
  • Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Alborada Del Gracioso. 

The Cleveland Orchestra. 
Columbia Masterworks 1971 

 

Little Feat / Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
1974 Warner Bros.

Emmy Lou Harris, Fran Tate, Bonnie Raitt background vocals

the stanley brothers with the clinch mountain boys - sacred songs from the hills

Pink Floyd  1970's Japanese pressing 

way to go george53  , i have 2 copies of that album 

Kate Wolf & The Wildwood Flower – Lines On The Paper (Owl 1977)

Sweet, nice country folk album. Recommended.