Whats on your turntable tonight?

J Geils Band: Blow Your Face Out

The B-52's Cosmic Thing. Came in the mail today.

Classical music on the 'table tonight:

Haydn String Quartets, op33, with the Tatrai Quartet (Hungaraton SLPX 11887/9) - sinewy, sustantive, performances - great stuff. Of many different groups, the Tatrai always strike hit the right mark in this music for me.

Gershwin, Porgy & Bess (highlights) (RCA LSC 2679) with the incomparable Leontyne Price and the outstanding performances of William Warfield as Porgy and McHenry Boatwright as Sportin' Life. Wonderful cast in an excellent performance. I'm always disappointed that it's over so quickly.

Coming up, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky with Reiner and the CSO (RCA LSC 2395)
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Mea culpa: McHenry Boatwright as Crown and John Bubbles as Sportin' Life. Somehow didn't think what I'd written above looked right.

The pop and rock music is coming out of boxes and onto shelves over the past few days, so tonights listening has been sampling from the past:

Elvis Presley - Elvis' Golden Records (mono RCA reissue - poor sonics, but what a performer!)

Willie Nelson - Stardust (Columbia JC 35305) (I really enjoy Willie's voice, but the arrangements on this LP are the definition of "boring")

Queen - A Night at the Opera (just the standard US Elektra pressing, still not bad and a lot of fun to hear)

Keb' Mo' - S/T, Epic 478173 (Absolute Analogue reissue, some great sonics, at last!)

Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (Columbia PC 9913) We lost her too soon.

Janis Joplin - Pearl (Columbia PC 30322)

Weepin' Willie Robinson - At Last On Time (Analogue Productions APO 2009) (rest in peace Mr. Robinson - Glad Chad was able to capture what he did, wish there was more)
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