Whats on your turntable tonight?

Today it is Verdi's la Forza Del Destino... I am listening to a 1980 Japanese pressing by King Records off the original 1955 London/Decca recording with Renata Tebaldi in the role of Donna Leonora, and Mario del Monaco (one of my favorite Italian tenors) singing Don Alvaro.

What a pair of lungs on that lady...

Other than being a really nice pressing, it is a fabulous recording. Can't beat it for $2.

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The Smith's - "How Soon is Now?" 12" club mix

Nirvana - Nevermind

Steely Dan - Aja (again, and again, and again...)

The Police - Ghost in the Machine (Japanese Pressing, v nice)

The New Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige 7014 (Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue)

Jackie McLean, Jackie's Bag, Blue Note 84051 (Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue)
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Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time-out, 200gram reissue. I can't get enough of Take-Five. Brubeck was preceeded by Jackie McLean Swing, Swang, Swinging, Blue-Note re-issue.

The second movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony fascinates me. I've been enjoying a comparison between my favorite versions: Kubelik/Bavarian Radio Sym. on DGG; Klemperer/Philharmonia Orch. on EMI; Solti/Amsterdam Concertgebouw on Decca; Horenstein/London Phil. on Classics For Pleasure and Bernstein/New York Philharmonic on Columbia.