What is the one recording you reach for when you can't decide what to play? The one CD or album that will satisfy your need for music when you don't have anything in particular in mind?
And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it. Like some on this post I have my computer control my CD players, so it is often left to make the final order to cue the players up....but if I had to search, find and pull out an album ...it would surely be this one.
I always seem to fall back on this album and play a part of it every time I listen to music....it is an amazingly well engineered studio album with such clarity, detail and dynamics. I must have heard it a thousand times but it still has the ability to make my hair stand on end every time...and I am not even a jazz or Duke Ellington fan...so that is really saying something!!!!
My record of choice is Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo Muti on MFSL LP 1-520. This record posseses one of the most lifelike reproductions of orchestral music on record I have ever heard, and excels at revealing any flaws in a system's reproduction of string tone, dynamics, and soundstaging.
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