Spinning Today (Classical version)

[MartinT]

Original issues usually go for around £100+ but it was reissued by speakers corner.

Thanks Andy. Sadly seems to be long deleted? I'll keep a lookout for any that come onto the market.

[morris_minor]

Currently playing (and recording to FLAC):

Shostakovich - Symphony No.1 & Age of Gold Ballet: Jean Martinon/LSO (Decca Eclipse LP).

I don't know about other folk who digitise their LPs, but I always like to hunt out the original cover art for the album to display (in players, iPad controller etc).

My Eclipse issue (which I bought new back in the day - early 70s) has a Cumbrian landscape (Lingmell) on the cover. Very Russian!

On it's first issue by RCA a rather surreal image of a reclining lady holding a football with some swords adorns the sleeve. The Ballet is a cynical look at Capitalism, but I'm not sure of the exact "plot" as it were, so can't really comment on how appropriate this is.

A later Victrola issue has a drawing of someone wrestling a horse.

I wonder what goes through the heads of label marketing types when deciding on cover images? You can see why there are loads of websites devoted to covers that suck.

[Marco]

Bastid - all that lurvely Shossie on vinyl!

Jealous, moi?

Marco.

[morris_minor]

Bastid - all that lurvely Shossie on vinyl!

Jealous, moi?

Marco.

Did you spot the Kondrashin Shostakovich 8 on Melodiya on the floor in my office pics queuing up for spinning?

[MartinT]

Ok, some Shostakovich vinyl from my collection going on now:

Chamber Symphony & Symphony for Strings, Bigg, Phoenix CO, Phoenix (1983)

Suite from the Gadfly, Kondrashin, Symphony Orchestra Cinematographia, Melodiya (1961) as best as I can translate from Cyrillic

Violin Concerto No. 1, Oistrakh, M Shostakovich, New Philharmonia, EMI (1970)

The Chamber Symphony is particularly melancholy and beautiful, orchestrated from the 8th String Quartet.

[MartinT]

Did you spot the Kondrashin Shostakovich 8 on Melodiya

I have the Mravinsky 8 on Melodiya!

[morris_minor]

..... as best as I can translate from Cyrillic

. . . probably better than I could

While we're on Shostakovitch, another Kondrashin recording I have is Symphony 4. (ASD2741)

[MartinT]

On Melodiya vinyl I have the 3rd (Roshdestvensky), 6th (Svetlanov), 2 x 7th (Mravinsky & Svetlanov), 8th (Mravinsky), 11th (Kondrashin), 15th (Mravinsky).

I also have the absolutely superb 15th (Roshdestvensky)* and 12th (Roshdestvensky) on JVC Melodiya CDs.

*this is worth hunting down as the recording, for Melodiya, is superb and it is extremely well performed.

[morris_minor]

I have a number of gaps in my Shostakovich symphonies, so will look out for some of these. Mind you, I see Marco's on the hunt now so I might not get a look in .

[royzak]

Schubert - String Trio D 581.Gaede Trio.Nicely played and as usual very well recorded on a Tacet cd.
Spotted a funny miss print in the booklet Franz Schubert (1707-1828)