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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Continuing tonight with music of Bohuslav Martinů, but moving to some of his orchestral works:..Rhapsody Concerto for Viola & Orchestra..Cello Concerto No. 1..Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello and orchestracourtesy of Su... | |
| lps chamber music like the old digital early 80's Add Groove Note to that very small list of high quality labels issuing some new classical recordings on vinyl:THE JUNG TRIO/DVORAK PIANO TRIO OP. 65 I have not heard this, but if it's up to Ying Tan's usual standards, it should be very good sonica... | |
| lps chamber music like the old digital early 80's Thanks, Batalok. I too am disappointed not to have some of the wonderful new performers available on vinyl. Three small labels that are releasing new classical recordings on vinyl: Tacet - the Beethoven series with the Polish Chamber Orchestra ha... | |
| lps chamber music like the old digital early 80's Hi Tom, you're very welcome.For the new material, I track the announcements Elusive Disc and Acoustic Sounds of coming releases. Between them one will see pretty much any of the newly pressed vinyl.For previously released material from used LPs, t... | |
| lps chamber music like the old digital early 80's Batalok, as far as I'm aware, none of the labels you mention are releasing any of their wonderful recordings on vinyl. I hope you can tell me I'm wrong and that they are issuing vinyl. Are they?Alpha, Mirare, Flora, Zigzag (the beautiful recording... | |
| lps chamber music like the old digital early 80's Audiotomb, two labels making current analog recordings of classical music and releasing on vinyl are Tacet and Fone. Both have fairly limited pressing runs and titles disappear pretty quickly. Classic Records was doing a series of symphonic music ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bohuslav Martinů - "String Quartets 5 and 7" - Panocha Qt, Supraphon 1111 2675 (thorny, challenging music - great stuff!)Josquin Des Pres - "Missa Pange Lingua" - Tallis Scholars, Gimmell 1585 09 (as always, the singing from this group is sublime ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Thanks, Joe. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slipknot - please note your impressions of the Hugh Masekela after you listen to it again.On the turntable now:Shostakovich "Symphony No. 6" - Berglund/BournemouthSO, EMI SLS 5177 (fantastic!) - coupled with Sym No. 11 which will be up next.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Kalenda Maya - Songs & Dances 1200 to 1550" - Simax PS 1017 - one of those LPs that demonstrates that digital recordings on vinyl can sound great.J.S. Bach "Fantasies" for Harpsichord, played by Alfred Gross in a superb LP from Das Ohr.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Berlioz "Requiem" - Shaw/AtlantaSO, Telarc (I prefer the Davis/LSO on Philips, but one learns from different approaches)Last night:Berlioz "Les Troyens" - Davis/ROHO-CoventGarden on Philips (great music making). | |
| Visiting with friends and Walker Audio "Can you list the rest of Walker's system? It would be interesting to hear about."Here are the components in Lloyd Walker's system as we listened to it:...Walker Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable, with Walker Ultimate Motor Controller and Prologu... | |
| Visiting with friends and Walker Audio Hi Mark, thanks for your comment about the write-up. It was a nice experience to share. As to upgrades, hearing a system at this level continues to remind me that there are always opportunities to improve on the results we're getting, whether it b... | |
| 10 Great Classical LP's Mike, glad to hear it! And it's a slippery slope. For orchestral, keep going and also head to the Decca and EMI catalogs. If you find you also enjoy Baroque and pre-Baroque music, then it's off the the Harmonia Mundi, Accent, Astree, CRD and Telef... | |
| 10 Great Classical LP's Hi Mike, I hope you've continued your classical music exploration by going into the Mercury catalogue reissues from Classic Records and, more particularly, Speakers Corner. And then there's the entire Lyrita catalog to explore from the used market.. |