Whats on your turntable tonight?

The Soundcarriers - Wilds

2022 Phosphonic

Karajan conducts Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite & Romeo & Juliet. 

Side A - Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a

• Miniature Overture
• March
• Dance of the Sugur a Plum Fairy
• Trepak (Russian Dance)
• Arab Dance
• Chinese Dance
• Dance Of The Reed Pipes
• Waltz of the Flowers

Side B - Romeo & Juliet 

• Fantasy Overture 

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
London-Jubilee reissue mid-1980’s, originally 1961

Evgeni Svetlanov conducts Borodin

• In The Steppes Of Central Asia
• Symphony No. 2 In B Minor, Op. 5
• Polovtsky March From "Prince Igor". 

U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra
Melodiya/Angel 1968

Anne Murray-Somebody's Waiting Side 2

Rick Wakeman-Journey To The Center Of The Earth Side 1

Patti Austin-The Real Me Side 2 SQ*

John Williams-Star Wars(Damil SGA-1000) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Styx-The Grand Illusion Side 1 SQ*

Larry Carlton-Friends Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Brahms-Stern/Mehta(M 35146) Side 1+2 SQ Audiophile

The Alan Parsons Project-I Robot Side 1 SQ Audiophile

4 recordings with Audiophile SQ and 2(SQ*) near misses makes for a very enjoyable night. Just a note, I rarely wax poetic over recording content because assume what I play I like. My focus on SQ could help if one is indecisive about a vinyl purchase. Parsons gets the SQ crown without any comments needed. 

Joan Sprung - Ballads And Butterflies (Folk-Legacy 1976)

10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe (Elektra 1087)

Eric Bogle – Scraps Of Paper (Flying Fish 1980)

This album made me laugh and cry. Excellent.

William E. McEuen Presents Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Stars And Stripes Forever (United Artists 1974)

Death Angel - Act III

Movietone - Peel Sessions

2022 Textile Records

Placido Domingo-Christmas With Placido Domingo(FM 37245) Side 1 SQ*

Alabama-Christmas Side B SQ*

Carpenters-Christmas Portrait Side 2

The Wonderful World Of Christmas-VA Side 2

Frank Sinatra-The Sinatra Christmas Album Side 2

Bing Crosby-Merry Christmas Side 1

Amy Grant-A Christmas Album Side 2 SQ Audiophile

John Denver-Rocky Mountain Christmas Side B

Played some of my favorite Christmas albums and saved my favorite for last(John Denver). Amy Grant/Merry Christmas is also a 5* album with 5* SQ(Doug Sax), with any luck a dollar bin find. 

Just Mustard - Heart Under

2022 Partisan Records

So far this evening:

Art Pepper - Art Pepper + Eleven "Modern Jazz Classics"

Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/22910555-Art-Pepper-Art-Pepper-Eleven-Modern-Jazz-Classics

Grieg* , The London Symphony Orchestra , Fjeldstad* - Peer Gynt

Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/13334131-GriegLondon-Symphony-Orchestra-Fjeldstad-Peer-Gynt

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Debussy* – Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam* , Bernard Haitink - La Mer / Prélude À L'Après-Midi D'un Faune / Rhapsodie Pour Clarinette / Marche Écossaise

Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/1934560-Debussy-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-Amsterdam-Bernard-Haitink-La-Mer-Pr%C3%A9lude-%C3%80-LApr%C3%A8s-Midi-Dun-Faune-

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Carole King / Tapestry
1971 Ode

Poco / Legend
1978 ABC

Daniil Trifonov

Bach: The Art Of Life

• Sonata No. 5 In A Major, Op. 17/5 
• Polonaise No. 8 In E Minor Fk 12/8
• Rondo In C Minor Wq 59/4 (H283) 
• Allegretto Con Variazioni ("Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman") Wf 12/2
• Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
• Chaconne In D Minor For The Left Hand (Piano Studies No. 5) Anh. 1a/1
• The Art Of The Fugue 
• Jesu, Joy Of Man‘s Desiring

Deutsche Grammophon 2021 3LP gatefold

Ignaz Moscheles : Michael Ponti, piano

• Piano Concerto In G Minor, Opus 58 with Philharmonia Hungarica, Othmar F. M. Mága conducting
• Etudes, Opus 70 
• Characteristic Etudes, Opus 95 

Candide 1969
 

Szell conducts Mozart

• Concerto No. 15 In B-Flat Major For Piano And Orchestra, K. 450
• Concerto No. 17 In G Major For Piano And Orchestra, K. 453

Members of The Cleveland Orchestra w/Robert Casadesus, piano
Columbia Masterworks 1969
 

Tátrai Quartet with Csilla Szabó, piano:

• Bartók - Quintet For String Quartet & Piano

Bartók Béla Complete Edition, V. Posthumous Works 4
Hungaroton 1971
Hungarian release 
 

Beauty and The Beard

 Ann Margaret and Al Hirt.  And this also has the sexiest version of Baby It’s Cold Outside ever recorded.  Believe it.

Pop Evil, Pop Evil

My monthly (it seems) spin of this. One of my favorite Williams composition.

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Vaughan Williams

• A London Symphony

Hallé Orchestra. Angel, 1968

Sir Adrian Boult Conducts String Music Of Vaughan Williams

• Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
• Concerto Grosso
• Partita For Double String Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Angel 1976
 

Allan Taylor – All is One (Stockfisch 2013)

Mozart, Jack Brymer, Hubert Barwahser, Osian Ellis, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis – Concertos For Clarinet / For Flute And Harp (Philips 1964)

Eno - Before And After Science

Island 1977

Eno - Another Green World

Island 1975

Just arrived

Todd Rundgren - Initiation 

Bearsville Promo pressing 1975

Great recording released on the Stony Plain label. At the end of the disc is a 20 minute interview with Sonny Rhodes and the label founder Holgar Peterson.  A real pleasure to listen to this.  Such an intersting perspective to Sonny's journey through his musical career.  

David Gray - "Mutineers"

Beck - "Colors"

Bruce Hornsby and The Range / the way it is
1986 RCA

Midnight Oil / Blue Sky Mining
1990 Columbia

Marin Marais, Charles Dollé, Jacques Morel – Marin Marais and the French Solo Viol Tradition (Musical Heritage Society 1977)

Helen Merrill – Music Makers (Owl 1986)

Paul Tortelier With Shuku Iwasaki – Plays Encores  (His Master's Voice 1985?)

Various – Fast Folk Musical Magazine Vol. 4 No. 4, An Evening In Greenwich Village (Fast Folk Musical Magazine 1988)

Randall Bramlett "Pine Needle Fire"

Judy Collins – Judy Collins #3 (Elektra 1963)

Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust (A&M 1975)

The Nation of Ulysses! - ‘Plays Pretty For Baby’

Bill Evans - Morning Glory - RSD release - excellent 

Grant Green - The Latin Bit - Blue Note Tone Poet

Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something 

Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About 

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin - excellent 

Lamb – Cross Between (Warner Bros 1971)

Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

Current 93 – If A City Is Set Upon A Hill (HomAleph 2022)