Whats on your turntable tonight?

Rossini, 6 Sonate a Quattro, Salvatore Accardo and others, Philips 4759648 (2LPs) (This limited edition reissue is one of the most realistic recordings of a string quartet in my collection. Yes, it's expensive. But the performances are superb and the recording quality and mastering are simply outstanding. If you enjoy chamber music, this exceptional 2LP set will rock you back on your heels.)

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Bohm/Bayreuthe, Nilsson, Windgassen, Ludwig, DGG 2713 001 (a glorious cast in this exceptional performance from 1966)
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Durufle, Suite, op5 - Torvald Toren at the Hedvig Eleonora Church Organ, Stockholm - Proprius 7854

Torvald Toren is an excellent organist playing on a beautiful organ built and voiced in the French "neo-classical" style, a superb organ for the music of Maurice Durufle. When the 32' Bourdon pipes are called upon in this beautifully recorded LP, you absolutely know it and feel it. (For people who tell me vinyl just can't reproduce bass as well as CDs, this is the LP I'm most likely to pull out to play for them.) This LP and it's sequel (Proprius 7855) contain four of Durufle's great organ works in marvelous sound. Highest recommendation if you love large scale French organ music and can find it.
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Recently:

Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Gary Brooker - No More Fear of Flying
Chet Atkins - Teensville (RCA Living Stereo)
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow (particularly excellent recording)

On the table now...

Led Zeppelin II (a pretty good George Piros mastering, AT/GP, which I need to compare to my RL ss mastering)

ZZ Top, Tres Hombres (early pressing - a bit of surface noise, but good sound otherwise. And great music!)

And coming up after being cleaned:

Ry Cooder/VM Bhatt, A Meeting by the River, Water Lily APW029-45
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Herrmann "The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann" Herrmann/National Philharmonic Orchestra (London SPC21137) "Phase 4 Stereo"

Rachmaninoff "Concerto No.3" Van Cliburn/Kondrashin/Symphony of the Air (RCA LSC 2355)

Tchaikovsky "Concerto No.1, in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23" Van Cliburn/Kondrashin
(RCA LM-2252)