Whats on your turntable tonight?

Vivaldi "The Four Seasons, op 8" - Marco Fornaciari and the Fone Ensemble on Fone 007 (2LPs) - a muscular, full-tone performace with a "big sound" from this small ensemble, playing with just one instrument per part. This recording is very closely miked (albeit with all-tube microphones) and cut at a high level, with overload apparent periodically. I ended up raising my tracking force just a touch to help tame it. Overall, a very enjoyable performance that sounded delightfully "different" in this day of more demure HIP performances. Using Strativari, Guarneri and Amati instruments, the group gets a big, full and forceful presentation of this music that was a pleasure. I just wish the miking were not quite so close and that the LP cutting had not been at quite such a high level. Still, a keeper that I will come back to.

Orlando Gibbons, "Fantaisies Royales" - Jordi Savall, viola da gamba; Christopher Coin, baroque violin; Sergi Casademunt, harpsichord and organ positif - Astree AS 43 (Renaissance chamber music at its best! Outstanding musicians captured in a superb recording by Astree that beautifully presents the nuance, timbre and tonal color of these period instruments.)
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Eat your hearts out if you must. I'm listening to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" 78, by The Sandpipers--Mitchell Miller and Orchestra. Brought to me by Peter Pan peanut butter & Walt Disney. No kidding.

What a kick! :-)

Eat your hearts out if you must. I'm listening to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" 78...

Rushton, God knows I hate to admit this, but my mother told me when I was 5-6 years old, I would watch Davy Crockett every evening at meal time. She would then call me to eat, but I wouldn't respond unless she called me "Davy". My name is Jim btw. Wow, what a dork!