Whats on your turntable tonight?

Just wonderful performances and recordings, aren't they!
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The Producers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, i thought I was the only one. I like their debut record better than You Make the Heat though. What a great power pop band. I picked up both copies of their first two records in mint condition last week for $3 each. The vinyl store I bought them in had them in the 'Lunch Money' section. What a find!

Only power pop band of the late 70's / early 80's that I liked better was 20/20.

Prokofiev, Piano Conc No. 3, Kondrashin/MoscowPO, Byron Janis,
Rachmaninov, Piano Conc No. 1, Kondrashin/MoscowPO, Byron Janis,
.. Mercury SR 90300 Speakers Corner reissue

Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8, Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 4, Borodin Quartet
.. Mercury SR 90309, Speakers Corner reissue

Working my way through the 5LP box set of the recordings made by Mercury as the "First recordings ever made in the Soviet Union by American technical and musical staff and equipment. Recorded by Mercury on location in Moscow." What a set!
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Truly excellent list Rushton.

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Music is what sustains us, is it not?

Today:

Handel's Messiah with McGegan and The PhilharmoniavBaroque with the incomparable Lorraine Hunt (a glorious performance only available on CD, unfortunately)

Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1, Abbado/LSO, Argerich -pf, DGG 139 383

Sibelius, Symphony No. 2, Barbirolli/RPO, Chesky reissue

Joan Baez, "Any Day Now - Songs of Bob Dylan," Vanguard VSD 79306/7 (Well, the first LP of two. By then she wore me out.)

Bill Monroe, "7th Annual Bluegrass Festival at Bean Blossom" MCA 2-8002 (great music making!)
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