Your One "Go To" Recording

Beethoven String quartet Op 131. Emerson String Quartet

Placido Domingo ... "Verdi Arias & Duets" on EMI Great Artists.

Regards, Rich

Great post!

This question is the reason why I went to a hard disk playback setup. A playlist is such a better answer than just a single record. My fall back playlists are sorted by genre (blues, pop, rock, etc.) with each song rated 4 stars or better. Each list contains at least 500 songs and it's set to random play. Here's the most ten recent songs played from the Jazz Vocal playlist:

They Can't Take That Away From Me - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong/Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong/Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin

It Was A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra/Sinatra At The Sands

Fools Rush In - Frank Sinatra/Nice And Easy

I'm Glad There Is You - Sarah Vaughan/Jazz 'Round Midnight

All Of Me - Lester Young w/ Billie Holiday/Lester Young Story: Afternoon Of A Basie-Ite

My Funny Valentine - Luqman Hamza/With This Voice

All Of Me - Billie Holiday & Lester Young/Complete Billie Holiday-Lester Young 1937-1946

Rose of the Rio Grande/St. Louis Blues - Duke Ellington/Duke 1940 Live From the Crystal Ballroom In Fargo, N.D.

September Song - Sarah Vaughan/Sarah Vaughan

Damn you, Onhwy61! (I say ala John Stewart...with a smile on my face).

Which one from your list would you choose?

Thank you all for your participation. What's fascinating to me is that I own almost none of the recordings mentioned, and yet they are your "Go To" albums. It seems I need to start adding to my music collection!

Obviously things change all the time, but my current fave is "Vampire" from Sinaed O'Connor's "Lay Down Your Arms" - her tribute to reggae. While it's not a fantastic recording in the normal audiophile mode (since it's multi-tracked and a little compressed) there is her wonderful voice and a super-strong bottom end from Sly and Robbie.

I played this in a few rooms at CES and I thought the Wilson Maxx2's in the BAT room were the one speaker that really nailed this.

Regards,