Whats on your turntable tonight?

Rush, I have some of these but not the Britten. Is it being re pressed by Speaker Corner or anyone else?

Albert, I've not seen a reissue of the Britten War Requiem and have not heard of one coming. My copy is a late English pressing on the London label (-4E in the deadwax), but it is superb.
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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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