Whats on your turntable tonight?

Right before we left for the holidays...

VA - Phil Spector's Christmas Album (Warner re-ish LP, prob. late 70's/early 80's, orig. 1963) The heavyweight classic of all times and still champeen. Like the man says, Back To Mono! Darlene Love, The Ronnettes, The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans, and The Wall Of Sound - and that ain't no lump of coal. HoHoHo!

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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto/ Tartini Devil's Trill - Szeryng / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Munch RCA vics-1037
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Brahams Piano Concerto No. 2 / Richter Warshaw National Philharmonic / Wislocki - DG 138 076
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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 / Gilels / Berlin / Eugen Jochum / DG 2530 259
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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 - Rubinstein / RCA Victor Symphony / Krips
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Los Romeros / Vivaldi Guitar Concertos / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields / Iona Brown - Philips 412 624-1
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Beatles / Sgt. Pepper - Mofi Master Recording.
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Fleetwood Mac / Fleetwood Mac - Mofi - Original Master Recording
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Tonight...

Handel: Concerti a due cori, Numbers 2 & 3
...Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists, Philips 411 122
...Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music, Decca 6.43008 (a beautifully engineered recording by John Dunkerley, marred by early digital sound)

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
...Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists, Philips 411 122

Rutter: Gloria, Rutter/CambridgeSingers, Collegium COL 100
...a lovely performance of this work that continues to be my favorite performance, but I'm also a sucker for that English choral sound. The early digital edge on this recording is neatly ameliorated, and the LP made eminently listenable, by the addition of just a touch of tonearm damping.

The Sound of King's, Willcocks/Choir of King's College (Cambridge), EMI SEOM 5 - absolutely marvelous choral singing. What else would you expect with Willcocks and King's College? Beautiful 1968 EMI recording that well captures the acoustic of King's College Chapel.

Last night...
"Porgy and Bess" (scenes from) with Leontyne Price, Paul Warfield, McHenry Boatwright and John Bubbles - was there ever a greater Sportin' Life than John Bubbles? RCA LSC 2679.

Bruckner, Symphony No. 6, Stein/VPO, London CS 6880 -- the luscious horns of the Vienna Philharmonic make this a special recording.
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Pink Floyd the final cut