Whats on your turntable tonight?

Musicdoc, nice to see your additions to this thread! I need to get back to adding to this, too.

Ok all you vinyl experts: Do any of you have a recommendation for Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question" on LP. Reading another thread on Sibelius' work reminded me of a music appreciation class I took in high school and how that Ives work stands out as one of the highlights of that class.

Well, in sadness I confess that there's probably dust, a plastic bag and a shipping box on my old table, and not much more on the new one. It is in the process of being built. I have been without a table for over a month and even SACD is growing tiresome.

I hate everyone who has a functional TT! : )

Slipknot, I have two recordings of the Ives "Unanswered Question" that are both pretty good. I don't know what might be a better version. The two I have are:

Gould/ChicagoSO, LSC 2893
Kitayenko/MoscowPO, Sheffield TLP 27

The Sheffield recording comes from the venture Sheffield made to record in Moscow some years ago with an American conductor doing the Russian music a Russian conductor (Kitanyenko) doing the American music. To my ear, the Kitanynko got the better performances out of the orchestra.

On a side note, I assume you have a copy of Ives' "Three Places in New England" somewhere in your collection? If not, it's well worth seeking out. The Howard Hanson / EastmanRochesterSO performance on Mercury continues as my favorite performance and recording. Don't know if Speakers Corner will reissue this, but my SRI copy sounds just fine.
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cat stevens mo-fi "teaser and the firecat," van morrison reissue of "blowin' your mind," an original yellow label verve *disc jockey copy* of bill evans/jim hall "intermodulation," and arvo part "tabula rasa" on ecm.

thanks for the kind words rushton. be well.