Tonight:
Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat, MSFL 1-244 - had to pull this out and play it to check my recollection of its sound quality given a very curious post tonight in the Vinyl Asylum. My copy sounds just like I remembered it: really really good! And I don't often say that about MoFi releases: I've listened to too many that are horribly EQ'd and congested, but not this one - it's one of the GOOD ones.
Bizet: Sym 1 in C, Marriner/ASMF, London (King Superanalogue reissue)- wonderful performance, well recorded, just a delight to listen to.
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, Sondeckis/LithChmO, Kremer -vn, Schnittke -pf, ECM 1275 - classic Part. If you don't know his music, he's worth adventuring through.
As I Went to Walsingham: collection of Renaissance music, performed by Paul O'Dette (lute) and The Musicians of Swanne Alley, Harmonia Mundi HMC 5192. Wonderful music of the renaissance, exceptionally performed, and beautifully recorded by Peter McGrath. I've never heard a bad recording with his name in the engineering credits!
Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat, MSFL 1-244 - had to pull this out and play it to check my recollection of its sound quality given a very curious post tonight in the Vinyl Asylum. My copy sounds just like I remembered it: really really good! And I don't often say that about MoFi releases: I've listened to too many that are horribly EQ'd and congested, but not this one - it's one of the GOOD ones.
Bizet: Sym 1 in C, Marriner/ASMF, London (King Superanalogue reissue)- wonderful performance, well recorded, just a delight to listen to.
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, Sondeckis/LithChmO, Kremer -vn, Schnittke -pf, ECM 1275 - classic Part. If you don't know his music, he's worth adventuring through.
As I Went to Walsingham: collection of Renaissance music, performed by Paul O'Dette (lute) and The Musicians of Swanne Alley, Harmonia Mundi HMC 5192. Wonderful music of the renaissance, exceptionally performed, and beautifully recorded by Peter McGrath. I've never heard a bad recording with his name in the engineering credits!