Whats on your turntable tonight?

Listening right now to a delightful performance of Beethoven's 7th Symphony: Kajski conducting the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Tacet L 149. A very lithe, dynamic performance; and the all tube recording chain makes for a unique sonic quality - highly recommended!

Earlier today:

"Blues Jam at Chess" - a great live blues jam captured at the Chess Records studio in 1969 with the original Fleetwood Mac members (Peter Green era) and some great blues players like Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Shakey Horton, Honey Boy Edwards. A great reissue by Pure Pleasure.

"Clair de Lune" - collection of orchestral short pieces performned by Raymond Agoult and the London Proms Symphony Orchestra in another great recording by Kenneth Wilkinson. RCA LSC 2326 (45 rpm reissue by Classic Records)
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Simon & Garfunkel - "Bookends" (Columbia KCS 9529) in an early 2-eye red label pressing. This 40-year old LP has been played to death on low-fi equipment and it still sounds great tonight! (My listening partner wouldn't head off to bed until we'd finished playing the second side, and it's her LP that she bought in high school and played to death on an old "suitcase" model Magnavox player. Don't ever tell me vinyl doesn't have longevity.)

Joni Mitchell - "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" (Asylum 7E 1051). I've read some rave reviews of the recent Speakers Corner reissue of this LP, but the original sounds great to my ears here. The advantage of the reissue is supposed to be the elimination of compression used in mastering the original, but my original copy sounds very dynamic. Anyone heard the Speakers Corner reissue?

The White Stripes - "Elephant" (V2 Records 63881-27148) - OK, I'm impressed with Jack and Meg White. I picked up this LP some months ago and have only gotten around to listening to it tonight. (Somewhat ear shredding in the top end, requiring the addition of a bit of damping on the tonearm to clean up some of the edge, but great overall impact.) Now I have to clean and listen to "Icky Thump."

Telemann - "Trio Sonatas" performed by the Ensemble Rameau on Lyrinx 7908-020. Lovely period instrument performances captured in quite good sonics by Lyrinx, a label with consistently good quality engineering, mastering and pressings.
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"Antiphone Blues" (Proprius 7744) in honor of Arne Domnerus, the Swedish saxophonist who died this past Monday at the age of 83. A wonderfully unusual combination of jazz saxophone and organ (particularly at the time originally recorded in 1974); you owe it to yourself to listen to this recording. Domnerus' better known recording likely is "Jazz at the Pawnshop."

"Thunderbolt Pagoda" (Mutant Music MMLP025) - I've mentioned this LP before and have enjoyed it once again this evening. Thanks again, Ralph!

James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James" in the Steve Hoffman / Kevin Gray remastered reissue from Warner Bros. A very worthy improvement over the original pressing. Too bad other reissues from the major labels are not coming anywhere close to the superb quality of this one.

The Nylons - "One Size Fits All" (Open Air OA 0301) - just sensational music making and total fun!
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A year and a half, and this thread is still going strong! Some tremendous music has been shared among the various posters. Thank you all.

Today, so far:
Neil Young "Greatest Hits" (Reprise 48935-1) 200 gram

Grateful Dead "Live Dead" (Warner 2WS-1830) both Rhino 200 gram reissue and original pressings

Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits "The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - "Private Investigations"" (Mercury 987576-7)

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" (Columbia HBL 43453) Half Speed Mastered

Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Brain Salad Surgery" (Atlantic SD 19124) Manticore pressing is better, not quite as tipped up in the HF as this.

After the Rock and Roll:
Mendelssohn "Midsummer Night's Dream" Schubert "Rosamunde" Ansermet/L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (London CS 6186)

More classical music later....

Yes, this has been a really nice thread, Joe. It's been a real pleasure to read what others are playing and share some suggestions as we play stuff in our music library. This evening we've been listening to:

Vieuxtemps - "Violin Concerto No. 5"
Bruch - "Scottish Fantasy"
-- Jascha Heifitz and Malcolm Sargent conducting. (RCA LSC 2603-45 Classic Records 45 rpm reissue) Outstanding performance captured in another excellent engineering job by Kenneth Wilkinson. (Another example supporting the argument that the best of the RCA catalog was actually recorded by Decca.)

Paganini - "Il Carnevale di Venezia" and "La Campanella" - Salvatore Accardo -vn, Italiana Chamber Orchestra (Fone 011-45, 45 rpm pressing)

Roy Orbison - "Pretty Woman" - single 12" LP 33rpm/45rpm reissue from Classic Records - a nice demonstration of the benefits of 45 rpm mastering compared to 33 rpm.

Moody Blues - "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" Threshold THS 5.

Jazz from the Blue Note 45 rpm reissue series from Music Matters and Analogue Productions coming up...
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