Whats on your turntable tonight?

Tonight, more Roy Wallace engineered Decca marvels from the 1950s until about 1964:

Borodin: Sym 2 & 3, Ansermet/OSR, London CS 6126 (Speakers Corner reissue). OK, this one has a touch of upper mid-range brightness, probably some resonance frequency in the microphones - but this is an INCREDIBLE recording from 1954! Full, rich, detailed sound with marvelous soundstaging. Excellent performances, too.

Albeniz: Iberia, Ansermet/OSR, Decca SXL 2243 (Speakers Corner reissue) - recorded in 1960, this 40+ year old recording puts so many of the last 20 years to shame. Coupled with the Turina: Danzas fantasticas, this is a very special record. The dynamics on this LP are phenomenal.

Slipknot -- note that the wonderful Rossini Overtures recording you and I like so much is a Roy Wallace creation.
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Rush,
That is a wonderful recording. It seems as though Decca cornered the market on the truly gifted engineers of that era. The Maag/LSO Mendelssohn you introduced me to never ceases to amaze both in sonics and performance as well.

Reading the exchange between you and Albert has made me want to fire up my TT despite the fact that I cannot tear myself away from watching my beloved Red Sox....;)

Joe, that's what the mute button on your TV is for! Watch the game, listen to great music. You don't really need some announcer explaining that play-by-play breath-taking action on the screen do you? :-)

As I listen to a great performance of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings, having just indulged in Satie's Trois Gnossiennes performed marvelously by Ciccolini. (Doggone AudiogoN threads keep sending me back to the music library looking for stuff I haven't listened to in years.)
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So THATS what that button is for... ;) whenever I try to do that, I get this disconnected feeling. Having the music playing in the listening room and the TV in the family room has me not paying attention to either.

As one or two of you may have noticed (or not! :-), I've stopped posting to new threads for many months now. But Slipknot1's thread idea is something I had once thought of starting myself, right around the time I cut way back over here. So I feel justified in making this a semi-regular exception, and will enjoy doing so since it concerns music and not gear.

On the TT: British Invasion night with LP's from one-shots Ian & The Zodiacs, and a couple from two-shot'ers The Zombies. (No intentional "z" theme here, it just worked out that way.) Last week I saw The Zombies for the second time since Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent rejoined forces again about three years ago. They're currently out touring with Arthur Lee & Love (also the second time I've seen them in the past year), who I must say surpassed them as the opening act on a double bill right out of my grooviest 60's dreams.

In the CD (home and car): Art Blakey titles (The Big Beat, The Witch Doctor, Mosaic, Buhaina's Delight, Orgy in Rhythm [all Blue Note], & The Jazz Messengers [Impulse!] ) recently added to ever-growing AB collection are in constant rotation. Rudy van Gelder was a busy busy man. I grew up across the street from a friend whose father actually knew Bu, from back when he worked as maitre d' at a long-defunct NY club called the Cork & Bib where the Messengers used to gig. When he was alive he used to tell the story of how once when the band crashed at his pad for the night they were so bleary-eyed, they left the next morning having neglected to pack AB's drums in the van; after they got a couple hours away they realized their blunder and had to double all the way the back again to retrieve them. Nothing but the posh life for those beboppers in the 50's folks. C'mon now: how cool is it to be able to say, "I remember the time Art Blakey left his drums at my house"? Fagedaboudit!