Whats on your turntable tonight?

All Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra from my latest Discogs purchase (what can I say, a proud ‘homer’):

Incidental Music; Shubert - Rosamunde & Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Columbia re-release/master. 1973

Brahms, Piano Concerto #2 Leon Fleisher. Epic. Date unknown, originally released in 1962. Mono.

Brahms Double Concerto in A minor. Oistrakh & Rostropovich. Angel. Re-release. Recorded in 1969. Excellent. Really good Recording for an Angel release, which can be inconsistent. Their first Recording of the Cleveland Orchestra.

One more...

Karajan conducts Sebelius : Findlandia, Valse Triste, Der Schwan Von Tuonela, Tapiola. Berlin Philharmoniker. Deutsch Grammophon, German pressing. 1967.

Outstanding recording.

@bkeske  I used to tag along w audiophile buddy to catch Cleve in the 80’s - attend the pre concert lecture, eat well
- drive back to Columbus in the wee hours. a particular memory is a fantastic Mahler cycle... wow

Dead - I am streaming the Cornell shows, cause I am.... dead

@tomic601 Ah yes, the Christoph von Dohnányi years. Cleveland has had some very good conductors following Szell.

But, one of the biggest thrills is simply sitting in Severance Hall. Incredible place. It was Szell who made some big improvements to the hall, and hasn’t changed much since. 

I’ve got to get tickets for a couple of concerts when it gets open post virus. I have yet to see Franz Welser-Möst conduct, as he became the conductor right after I got divorced, and have never attended alone. But, the hell with that, nothing beats seeing a live orchestra in a hall like Severance.