Whats on your turntable tonight?

Hit the area yard sales yesterday. Spent part of today cleaning and listening.

Mussorgsky - Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition" Wallenstein/Virtuoso Symphony of London (Audio Fidelity FCS 50,004)

Corigliano "Concerto For Piano and Orchestra" Hilde Somer (Piano)/San Antonio Symphony/Alessandro (Mercury SR 90517) This one is a Marc Aubort engineering effort. Enormous dynamic range, looked like it was in pretty good shape. Ran it through the Loricraft and played it. Tons of noise throughout. Sounds almost like breakup or distortion, possibly due to some gunk deep down in the grooves. I am going to work on this one as the recording itself is superb, and the performance interesting.

Actually, last night: Mahler's 4th Symphony...especially, the 3rd & 4th movements. Columbia Masterworks series. Bernstein conducting the NY Philharmonic. Reri Grist is the soprano soloist. Don't think it is that great a recording from a sonic or engineering point of view, but I greatly enjoy the "Poco Adagio" 3rd and Reri's singing in the 4th.

Genesis - "Wind and Wuthering"
Doobie Brothers - "The Captain and Me"
Brian Ferry - "Bete Noire"
Elton John - "Tumbleweed Connection"

Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture of Heath - Pure Pleasure reissue, great music making

Alison Krauss/Live - MFSL 3-281

Lennox Berkeley: Divertimento - Lyrita SRCS 74

Beethoven: Kruetzer Sonata, Heifitz RCA LSC 2577 (Cisco reissue)

Lars-Erik Larsson: Concertino for Flute & String Orchestra, BIS LP 40
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Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Vol. 1 - Columbia CL 851 (wonderful music making from 1925 and 1927!)

Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Kletzki/PhilharmoniaO, Pollini -pf, EMI ASD 370 (Testament reissue - superb)

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown; Lightfoot!

Shelby Lynne, Just a Little Lovin' - Lost Highway 80009789
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