Whats on your turntable tonight?

Vivaldi, Dixit Dominus, RV594 (Psalm 109 for solists, two choirs and two orchestras), Negri/ECO, John Alldis Choir, Philips 6700 116
(Captivating, as always. I have another performance of this work with Corboz conducting, whom I always admire, but the Negri performance is the one I keep coming back to when in the mood to listen to this work.)

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

"Let the bridge computer speak!"

A bit of music thus far this morning with my listening partner:

Counting Crows, August and Everything After - Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue (Can I admit to getting bored? Oh my...)

Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver reissue - sonically scruptious, this 2 LP reissue is better than the original, and musically interesting and complex.

Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall - original pressing - we'd listened to another pressing of this at a friend's house, but I just couldn't find the swing factor I thought this LP had it. So, I pulled it out here to re-play the Cotton Fields cut that had been demo'ed for us. And, by golly, the swing factor was back. Just a great example of how some records live or die by the PRaT one's turntable delivers.

Moving on now to Brahms Piano Concerto, Curzon and Szell, in a 45 rpm reissue from ORG that I've been wanting to hear for some time.
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Rush

Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver reissue - sonically scruptious, this 2 LP reissue is better than the original, and musically interesting and complex.

How is this better than the original 4AD if you can explain I would appreciate.

I have all the Dead Can Dance LPs since 1984. ("This Mortal Coil.")

Hi Albert,

What I'm hearing is blacker background, a bit more definition in the leading edge of transients, and a bit more air and space. The differences would not make be duplicate a good clean original because the original is shockingly good. But if you don't have the original, or if your copy is getting a bit noisy, the reissue is very much worthwhile rather than chasing after another original on the used market. And, as I commented, I think the reissue does sound a bit better.

Cheers,