Whats on your turntable tonight?

Love your selection Slitknot.Gubankians are top notch.
I like the Shostakovitch too.I have that one.

tonight:

Al Stewart "Year of the Cat"

Purcell "Tavern Songs" Deller/ Harmonia Mundi
Britten "War Requiem" Rattle/Birmingham/Tear/Allen EMI
Holst "Savitri"" Janet Baker/Imogen Holst Argo
Handel "Coronation Anthems" Kings College/Willcocks Argo

"The Best Of Don Williams" Volume lll MCA
"Me and the Blues Joe Williams" RCA
"Things Are Getting Better" Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson 45rpm
"Going Home" The L.A. Four EW
"Louis Armstrong & Duke Elllington" Roulette
"Satchmo Play King Oliver" Audio Fidelity 45 rpm

Emorrisiv-

The "Savitri" with Janet Baker. One of my favorites! Not only is it a wonderful performance, it is one of my go to recordings for testing a systems ability to image properly.

I love the Argo "Coronation Anthems" too. Outstanding choices!!

Thanks Slipknot: The Holst "Savitri" is a special recording.One of the best I know of for testing soundstage,complete with moving singers.

I just got a couple of new (NOS)Harmonia Mundis:

"Danses Du Moyen-age" Clemencic/Ensemble Ricore
"La Rensaissance Anglais" The English Rensaissance/
Alfred Deller Consort

These are steller recordings in typical Harmonia Mundi style.
Open,transparent engaging. The Deller is a real eye opener.

also: English Sacred Music of the 16th Century/ Everest/ a very early Tallis Scholars (1977)
Excellent recording from one of the premier professional English choirs

cheers

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Witches' Brew - Gibson/NewSOLondon, RCA LSC 2225 -45 (45rpm reissue from Classic Records)...

Great impact and tonal color, and a far superior mastering to the earlier 33rpm reissue from Classic Records. While this is a Kenneth Wilkinson engineered recording from 1958, it clearly is an early experiment in multi-miking. And with that multi-miking comes great instrumental impact. Probably why is has been so famous over the years.

Yet, unlike the amazing orchestral sound staging found the the "The Power of the Orchestra" RCA VICS 2659 also engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson for RCA, Witches' Brew has little to no sound stage depth and instruments pull forward to the front edge of the orchestra as the miking knobs are diddled. If you value a natural perspective on the orchestra, by all means get the remarkable "The Power of the Orchestra" in a superb 45rpm reissue from Analog Productions. And value Witches' Brew for the instrumental color and slam it provides with some wonderful pieces of music very nicely performed by Gibson and the New Symphony Orchestra of London.
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