Spinning Today (Classical version)

[jandl100]

..... What's disappointing so far is that I haven't managed to find any Shostakovich, as he's my favourite composer...

One of the treasures of my LP collection is a double LP I picked up for £1 in a charity shop.

It's on the Supraphon (Czech) label, historic live recordings from the Prague music festival. The featured artist is the Russian violinist David Oistrakh.
Mozart violin concerto #3, Brahms double concerto, Beethoven's Romance #2 for violin & orchestra ..... and ...... my jaw dropped when I saw this on the rear cover ... Shostakovich's 2nd piano trio (one of his greatest works, imo) with Oistrakh (violin), Milos Sadlo (cello) and .... wait for it .... Shostakovich himself playing the piano part. Recorded in 1947 in very serviceable mono. It sends shivers down my spine just typing this in (it really does!) ... as for listening to it, oh boy ... I am not worthy.

[Marco]

Wow - nice one, Jerry... And I bet you can't get that recording on digital either!

Marco.

[BTH K10A]

I'm going to start building up my Shossie collection on vinyl. This is currently the only one I have, superb as it is:





On another note, I'm currently spinning this very album, which is absolutely superb:





The vintage Ace of Diamonds stuff is brilliant, in terms of genuine audiophile quality recordings!

Btw, has anyone ever come across this website: http://www.rareclassicalvinyl.com/?p...1729f28ba4f152

Looks interesting

Marco.

Yes, Decca's Ace of Diamond series has some fantastic recordings. The early ones were mainly re-issues of what are now some very expensive SXL releases whilst on some of the later issues there are some fantastic new recordings recordings. The early ones with FFRR on the label (often with a groove) used the same stampers as the SXL's. I have a few copies of SDD144 and wouldn't part with them. I've only had time to listen to a couple of records over xmas and SD144 was one of them. The other was Suite Espanola by Albeniz, another supurb Decca recording.Not sure if it was re-released on AOD as I've never seen one but it's well worth picking up if you see it.

[Marco]

Hi Andy,

Good to see you again, matey! Hope you had a nice Christmas?

That's interesting, and noted. I intend to amass quite a collection of vintage classical recordings. Other favourite labels are Decca FFRR (red), RCA Victor, EMI (His Master's Voice), Columbia and Deutsche Grammophon, the recordings on the latter I find are particularly stunning

Have a lovely new year, dude, and don't be such a stranger here in 2012!

Marco.

[BTH K10A]

Hi Marco, had quite a good christmas thanks although I am in the doghouse. The wife didn't appreciate me starting redecorating the hall stairs and landing. It's not a small task and as the ceilings both up and down are so high I've had to have scaffolding put up on the stairs.

She's getting her revenge with the wallpaper though. It's £90 a roll and I need 20 plus she wants to completely renew the lincrusta below the dado and add a freize above the picture rail.

I've not contributed much recently as I've been extremely busy at work(big job at Cambridge station) and having battles with planners who have morals and ethics that make Rachman seem like Mother Teresa.

Glad to hear you will be expanding your classical collection. There's an abundance of great classical music from the mono era and a mono cartridge with the correct dia tip gives great results.

I would agree that the DG recordings are generally supurb. It's a shame that there was a period in the 80's when their pressing quality was often dubious. I've found the earlier german pressings with tulips around the label to be the best and also the late digital pressings which are outstanding.

[synsei]

£90 a roll??? What's it made of, gold???

[MartinT]

Fantastic, Andy, that I think is the recording I was trying to identify in this thread http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13543. The XRCD is mighty fine but I would love to get hold of the vinyl.

[BTH K10A]

£90 a roll??? What's it made of, gold???

Nearly

http://designerwallpapers.co.uk/cole...-paper/65-1002

Good news is it's £5 cheaper than she told me


Bad news is that she's also now ordered 12 rolls of Hummingbirds paper for one of the bedrooms

[http://designerwallpapers.co.uk/cole...-birds/62-1003

Apparently block printed by hand

[jandl100]

Wow - nice one, Jerry... And I bet you can't get that recording on digital either!

Marco.

Heh - you got that right!

A partly Bloch-ian day yesterday ...

Ernest Bloch - works for viola & piano with Simon Roland-Jones violaing on an ETCETERA CD.
Ernest Bloch - complete works for piano on 2 Marco Polo CDs. Really lovely pieces. Some intense, some stretching (& breaking) the bounds of tonality, some meltingly beautiful. Yum.

Malipiero - Sea symphony on Naxos CD.

David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk. Oops - a classic, but not classical.

[BTH K10A]

Fantastic, Andy, that I think is the recording I was trying to identify in this thread http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13543. The XRCD is mighty fine but I would love to get hold of the vinyl.

Martin, yes it's definitely the one.

Original issues usually go for around £100+ but it was reissued by speakers corner.
There has also been a twin disc 45 rpm version issued

http://www.vinyl-records.biz/Albeniz.htm