Whats on your turntable tonight?

Cold rainy night. Warm fire burning in the woodstove; feels like: String music night!
"Danses Anciennes De Hongrie Et De Transylvanie" Rene Clemencic/Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi HM 1003) Trad music from Hungary and Transylvania performed on early music instruments. Listening to this brings into focus some of the many European influences that go into music from Appalachia and some Bluegrass. A couple of passages so much so, that if you didn't know it, you would think you were sitting on a front porch in Kentucky.

Josef Suk "String Quartet, Op. 31 Meditation" Suk Quartet (Supraphon 1111 3370) Suk was a Czech, as clearly evidenced in this VERY Eastern European work. Both the reading and the composition. Very somber, contemplative string music for a rainy night.

A big thank you to Rushton for introducing me to the two LP's above!

Staying with strings, but moving East:
Hui Fen Min/Wei Li "River of Sorrow : Immortal Chinese Instrumentals" (First Impression Music FIM 002 45rpm)
A couple of cuts from this release appeared in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

More strings to finish off the evening but we are back in the USA:
Doc Watson "Home Again" (Vanguard 79239) Cisco 180g reissue. What can you say but: Wow! Carolina picking and singing of some great old songs like "Matty Groves" and "Froggy Went A Courtin'". Superb performance, sonics to boot on very quiet 180g vinyl...

Question for Slipknot1: Do you have any Slipknot on vinyl?

Crazy4blues,
If you mean the group, no. My user name is from my favorite Grateful Dead song. I'm not into metal...

Tonight:
Holst "The Planets" von Karajan/Berlin (DG 2532 019)
Stravinsky "Firebird" Dorati/London (Mercury SR90226) Classic 200g reissue
Pink Floyd "Live in Zurigo" (Wind Records BP 0013) Badly recorded and transfered two LP bootleg set consisting of excellent performances of DSOTM, One Of These Days, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Echoes from 1973 or 1975
Grateful Dead "Live/Dead" (Warner "green lable" 1830)

Beethoven "Symphony No. 9 "Choral"" Solti/Chicago SO (Mobile Fidelity MFSL 2-516) As a rule, I have always found the MoFi pressings a little disappointing. Not so the case with this one. Quiet surface, good sonics, excellent performance of this warhorse by the Chicago Symphony and Chorus. Recorded in 1972 and originally released by London. The third movement has always been my favorite, and this recording delivers a very nicely paced, emotional 3rd.
Beach Boys "Holland" (Reprise MS 2118) Recorded in the Netherlands in 1972. Many pressings of this abound, as does the quality. Unfortunately, this is not a great one. The Beach Boys were experimenting with quadraphonic sound during this period and this was recorded on a 30 input quad console. Some interesting tunes, very much away from surfer tunes. This has a very country feel to it.