Whats on your turntable tonight?

I can enjoy "played LOUD" but tonight has been a softer evening after last night's close with The Who's "Who's Next" played loud (Classic Records reissue, and it is really good). Tonight's softer listening has seen:

J.S. Bach, "Flute Sonatas" - with Simon Preston, Jordi Savall, and Trevor Pinnock in an excellent Bob Auger engineered recording on CRD 1014/5. (Bob Auger is another of a small cadre of recording engineers who consistently achieve outstanding and supremely natural sonic results from a minimalist and minimally miked recording technique. Of course, it certainly helps when recording world class performers such as Savall, Pinnock and Preston.)

J.S. Bach, "Suites for Solo Cello" - with Janos Starker, cello, on the superb Speakers Corner reissue of Mercury SR3-9016. (An outstanding 3LP set to get while you still can.)
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Allow me to reiterate this thought: if you love classical chamber music, you will never forgive yourself if you fail to get this 3LP set of the Bach "Suites of Solo Cello" while it is still available.

J.S. Bach, "Suites for Solo Cello" - with Janos Starker, cello, on the superb Speakers Corner reissue of Mercury SR3-9016. (An outstanding 3LP set to get while you still can.)

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I second and third Rushton's recommendation that you don't miss out on getting the Bach Cello Suites / Janos Starker on Speaker's Corner.
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It is all he says and more....
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Rgds,
Larry
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Tonight was loud for me too:

Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Recording quality in the 70s was all over the map, sometimes even track to track on the same album, but there was a lot of great music made...

David

Last night was a Celtic night again with:

Ossian - "St. Kilda Wedding" Iona IR 001
Ossian - "Seal Song" Iona IR 002
- a great traditional music group with Billy Jackson on harp

and some good "new" folk from the '70s with John O'Connor "Songs for our times" on Flying Fish FF 331. The 30 minutes spent with Mary O'Hara just doesn't count.

Tonight is starting with Haydn symphonies played by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on Philips. I really enjoy Marriner's way with Haydn. It's not period instruments, but it has the light touch and sympathetic performance of Marriner and the Academy that I find very enjoyable:

Haydn, Symphonies 52 and 53, Marriner/ASMF, Philips 6500 114
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