Whats on your turntable tonight?

Last night:

"A Baroque Trumpet Recital" (music by Cazzati, Fontana, Marini, Telemann), Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, Albert Fuller, Harpsichord, and Leonard Sharrow, bassoon, Nonesuch H71274 (lovely recording produced by Teresa Sterne, who always delivered excellent recordings)

William Alwyn, Fantasy-Waltzes for Piano (1956), and Twelve Preludes for Piano (1959), John Ogdon -pf, Chandos ABRD 1125 (John Ogdon is one of my favorite pianists: love tohear him play! This is a digital recording but with excellent sound; I'd never noticed before but some of the best Chandos recordings in my collection have been mastered by Willem Makkee who is doing such fantastic work with the Speakers Corner Mercury reissue series.)

"Proensa" (songs of the troubadours), Paul Hilliard, tenor, with Andrew Lawrence-King, harp/psaltry, ECM 1368 (another Willem Makkee mastering with great sonics)
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Boa2, hang in there with us! As I'm sure you've noted, many of the recordings discussed are available in a digital media format. So I hope you'll enjoy the focus on the music in this thread.

And, while I'm a committed vinylholic, I'd never want to encourage someone who doesn't already have a vinyl collection to dive into these waters without a lot of reflection on the cost, hassle and expense of playing vinyl in any high quality way. I read others encouraging that move, but I think moving to vinyl (from no vinyl) is a significant move that should not be undertaken lightly.
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I'm waiting for Slipknot1 to get his new JWM 9 Signature installed so he can tell us about it and all the records he's been listening to as he dials it in... Congrats, Joe!
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Thanks for the encouragement, Rushton. I often take note of your music selections, as they (and many others on this thread) are outstanding. In fact, I'm off to get some now!
Enjoy your weekend,
Howard

Tonight thus far...

Sir Arnold Bax: Symphonic Poems: "Tintagel", "The Garden of Fand", "Northern Ballad No. 1", Boult/LPO, Lyrita SRCS62 (Tintagel is one of my favorite works by Bax, just a delightful work, and this performance by Boult is top drawer. Of course, having Kenneth Wilkinson as the recording engineer certainly helps the sonics!)

Sir Arnold Bax: Symphony No. 2, Fredman/LPO, Lyrita SRCS54 (a wonderful piece of music! Excellent engineering again by Wilkie.)

Mozart: Overture to Lucio Silla; Interludes from "Thamos, Konig in Agypten", Maag/LSO, Decca SXL 2196 (SpeakersCorner reissue)
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