Whats on your turntable tonight?

Listening now to the Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue of Bill Evans Trio: Explorations. Another great record in this series!

On the turntable earlier today have been:

Dave Grusin: Discovered Again, Sheffield LAB5 direct-to-disc

Gregorian Chant/Epiphany, by The Schola Hungarica, Hungaraton SLPD 12559

William Bird: Missa In Tempore Pachali | Mass: In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis, performed by Chanticleer on Harmonia Mundi HMC 5182

Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits, S&P Records S&P(2)-507 (if you like Orbison and you've not yet listened to this Steve Hoffman mastered 2-LP set, you're missing a huge treat - the music and sound quality puts a smile on my face!)

The Nylons: Happy Together, Open Air OA 0306

Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind, Asylum 7E 1072 (wonderful vintage stuff here)

Coming up: William Walton's Facade Suite, with the Chicago Pro Musica on Reference Recordings RR16 (a superb performance as I recall)...
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ZZ TOP-DEGEVELLO , (germany)

Metallica's Black album, 200g, it is Sad But True, yikes!

Yes, the William Walton "Facade Suite" on Reference Recordings was exactly as good as I remembered: an absolutely outstanding performance, recording and pressing (from my 03/04 post above). One of Reference Recordings' best.

William Walton's Symphony No. 1 - a great piece of 20th century orchestral music - Previn/LSO, RCA (recorded by Decca).

Robert Lucas: Usin' Man Blues, Audioquest 1001 (a Kavi Alexander recording, and very special sonically because of that)

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Verve MGV 4001/2, Speakers Corner reissue (Well, it sounds more like Ella than Cole Porter, but the remastering is well done sonically, and Ella is always Ella)

Marin Marais: "Works for 2 Viols and Harpsichord", Sarah Cunningham, et al., ASV GAU 112. (I enjoy Baroque music, and Marais' writing for viol is always worth listening to, but I confess to taking it in small doses because I find a sameness from piece-to-piece that I just can't get around. This is an excellent record, and shows just how good a digital recording on LP can sound.)
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I know these pieces show up in my postings a lot, but I use them as references to help tell me what my system is doing. Right now, I am evaluating the Walker Reference High Definition Links on my speakers. I suspect after the past several listening sessions with them, they will be staying..

Holst "Choral Hymns From The Rig Veda" Imogen Holst/English Chamber Orchestra/Purcell Singers with Janet Baker, Thomas Hemsley, Robert Tear (Argo ZNF 6)

Rachmaninoff "Piano Concerto No. 3" Byron Janis/Antal Dorati/London Symphony (Mercury SR90283) Speaker's Corner reissue

Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" (Columbia CS 8163) Both Classic Record's reissues: 33 1/3 rpm 200g and 45 rpm 200g