Well, I've acquired a few LPs since my first post in this thread.
My sister (she's in her 70's) was cleaning out her shelves and sent me some LPs. There, nestled in the box among the movie soundtracks and swing band collections was the 1965 Mercury Living Presence edition of Janos Starker playing the Bach Cello Suites. Yee hah!
I grew up listening to this version, and it's spoiled me for all others. Unfortunately, the one I grew up listening to got destroyed when my brother's garage and part of his house burnt about a year ago. The stereo versions of this still fetch something north of $1K on eBay. Mine is the mono version, but even those go for amazing money. Besides, with solo cello you aren't losing a whole lot going from stereo to mono.
Anyway, that's got to be at the head of my new short list.
My sister (she's in her 70's) was cleaning out her shelves and sent me some LPs. There, nestled in the box among the movie soundtracks and swing band collections was the 1965 Mercury Living Presence edition of Janos Starker playing the Bach Cello Suites. Yee hah!
I grew up listening to this version, and it's spoiled me for all others. Unfortunately, the one I grew up listening to got destroyed when my brother's garage and part of his house burnt about a year ago. The stereo versions of this still fetch something north of $1K on eBay. Mine is the mono version, but even those go for amazing money. Besides, with solo cello you aren't losing a whole lot going from stereo to mono.
Anyway, that's got to be at the head of my new short list.