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Whats on your turntable tonight?

For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
slipknot1
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Emorrisiv-

The "Savitri" with Janet Baker. One of my favorites! Not only is it a wonderful performance, it is one of my go to recordings for testing a systems ability to image properly.

I love the Argo "Coronation Anthems" too. Outstanding choices!!
emorrisiv
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Thanks Slipknot: The Holst "Savitri" is a special recording.One of the best I know of for testing soundstage,complete with moving singers.

I just got a couple of new (NOS)Harmonia Mundis:

"Danses Du Moyen-age" Clemencic/Ensemble Ricore
"La Rensaissance Anglais" The English Rensaissance/
Alfred Deller Consort

These are steller recordings in typical Harmonia Mundi style.
Open,transparent engaging. The Deller is a real eye opener.

also: English Sacred Music of the 16th Century/ Everest/ a very early Tallis Scholars (1977)
Excellent recording from one of the premier professional English choirs

cheers

e
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rushton
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Witches' Brew - Gibson/NewSOLondon, RCA LSC 2225 -45 (45rpm reissue from Classic Records)...

Great impact and tonal color, and a far superior mastering to the earlier 33rpm reissue from Classic Records. While this is a Kenneth Wilkinson engineered recording from 1958, it clearly is an early experiment in multi-miking. And with that multi-miking comes great instrumental impact. Probably why is has been so famous over the years.

Yet, unlike the amazing orchestral sound staging found the the "The Power of the Orchestra" RCA VICS 2659 also engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson for RCA, Witches' Brew has little to no sound stage depth and instruments pull forward to the front edge of the orchestra as the miking knobs are diddled. If you value a natural perspective on the orchestra, by all means get the remarkable "The Power of the Orchestra" in a superb 45rpm reissue from Analog Productions. And value Witches' Brew for the instrumental color and slam it provides with some wonderful pieces of music very nicely performed by Gibson and the New Symphony Orchestra of London.
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slipknot1 OP
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Emorrisiv-

I am constantly amazed at how our listening preferences seem to dovetail each others! I have the two Harmonia Mundi recordings you mention above, and "Danses Du Moyen-age" spends a lot of time on my turntable.

I will keep my eye out for a copy of "English Sacred Music of the 16th Century"

As my good friend Rushton just posted, I concur whole heartedly with his assesment of "Witches Brew" and "Power of the Orchestra". Two other reisuues that are seeing of lot of play right now at our house.
macdadtexas
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Ella Fitzgerald - Sings Cole Porter Songbook

New Order - Substance

Blondie - Best of Blondie

Elton John - Capt Fantastic

The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos

Led Zeppeline - Physical Graffiti
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