Whats on your turntable tonight?

Mahler, Symphony No. 5, Barbirolli/NPO, EMI SLS 785
(simply a marvelous performance; amazing that we can sit in our homes and hear such glorious music and performances. How wonderful it is.)
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Mahler, Symphony No. 1, Horenstein/LSO, Unicorn RHS 301 (a masterpiece of a recording by recording engineer Bob Auger. One of the greats!)

Den Romantiska Orgeln I (Collection of organ music from Vierne, Lundquist, Skold and Olsson), Lundquist -org, Gustaf Vasa Organ, Stockholm - Proprius PROP 7750 (Proprius is one of the few labels that consistently captures an organ and its acoustic environment exceptionally well. Very well done, indeed!)
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How true Rushton,and I know you have the right stuff.

Just installed the Eichmann bullets on my new DIY tonearm cable.Isn't it incredible how sensitive that tiny phono signal is? The Eichmanns added significantly more coherence,micro and macro dynamics and hence,presence.
DIY is the best way to have fun for me.

Got 10" of snow last night so it is the perfect day for listening.
as follows: (so far)

Hakan Hagegard (baritone) "Aftonsang och Julepsalm"
Proprius $1.00
This is a collection of classic solos such as "panis Angelicus",Ave Maria,as well as some Swedish leider/folksongs.
As every Proprius LP I have ever heard,magnificent!I only wish I could read Swedish, as the whole record printing is in Swedish.

"English Cathedral music of the 20th Century"
Choir of St. Albans Cathedral/Stephan Darlington
Hyperion (analog)
(heard this one Rushton?)
Another sonic wonder from Hyperion.Excellent choir and some well known (to choristers)pieces mixed with some obscure ones,including a Herbert Howells motet I had never heard.
That alone makes it for me.

Dire Straights: "Love over Gold"
Among our sub-group of Cincy audiophiles this record is a reference,and great for listening for nuance and sound stage.The copy I have is the best I have heard.It is a Quiex II process/demo I bought at Everybody's records for $3.95! Super quiet and fun listening.Breaking glass and cat screaming.

Lyle Lovett: "Lyle Lovett" MCA/Curb Records
Lyle's first album.quite fun and a excellent pressing

Ink Spots: "10 of the best Ink Spot Hits" The Longines Syphonette Society
Super quiet pressing,think of Redd Foxx doing his Ink Spots impression of "if I didn't care".
.49¢ at Half Priced books near mint condition

Chet Adkins & Les Paul "Chester and Lester"
RCA/Best Buy Series
A fun collaboration between two great guitarists.Nothing but fun with great sonics from 1976.

Henry Prucell: "Songs from Taverns and Chapels"
The Deller Consort/Deller MHS(Harmonia Mundi/France)
Incredible pressing,as are most Harmonia Mundi records are.
Very baldy tavern songs from rural England in the early baroque period.One song includes "so kiss my ass" as the answer to the preamble.
right up my alley.The Dellers are on top of their game on this songs done in rural dialects.too funny!

that's enough for tonight, but still listening

e

"Baldy" tavern songs...That is too funny! (Not to mention sad but true ;^)

e, I was listening to the Deller Consort performance of "Songs from Taverns and Chapels" just a few days ago (Harmonia Mundi HM 242). How can one not like songs such as "Come let us drink" or "I gave her cakes and I gave her ale"! Bawdy for sure.

Hmmm, I don't have a copy of the Hyperion "English Cathedral music of the 20th Century." Something similar on Argo, but not Hyperion. Of course, one never escapes lots of Howell from other records. :-)

I seem to have been on a LARGE ORCHESTRAL bent recently. Today it is...

Arnold Schoenberg's "Gurre-Lieder" with Kubelik conducting the Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,with Herbert Schachtscheider and Inge Borkh, DGG 139 984/85. A wonderfully big sweeping performance
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