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
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Sir Adrian Boult Conducts String Music Of Vaughan Williams

  • Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
  • Concerto Grosso
  • Partita For Double String Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Angel 1976

Leonard Bernstein conducts Vaughan Williams

  • Symphony No. 4 In F Minor
  • Serenade To Music. 

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1968


 

 

Karajan conducts Beethoven 

  • Konzert Für Violine Und Orchester D-dur Op.61

Berlin Philharmonic w/Christian Ferras, violin. 
Deutsche Grammophon reissue 1979, originally 1967

Karajan conducts Beethoven 

  • Konzert Für Klavier, Violine, Violoncello Und Orchester C-dur Op. 56 "Tripelkonzert”

David Oistrach violin, Mstislav Rostropovich cello, and Sviatoslav Richter piano
Berliner Philharmoniker
His Masters Voice/EMI, believe early 70’s, German release
 

Karajan conducts : ‘Metamorphosis For Strings’

  • Mozart - Adagio Und Fuge C-moll Für Streicher KV 546
  • Beethoven - Grosse Fuge B-dur Op. 133 (Orchesterfassung)
  • Strauss - Metamorphosen Für 23 Solostreicherb

Berlin Philharmoniker
Deutsche Grammophon 1971, German release

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Elgar

  • Cello Concerto In E Minor Op. 85 with Jacqueline Du Pré cello
  • Sea Pictures, Op. 37 with Janet Baker Mezzo-soprano

London Symphony Orchestra
Warner Classics reissue 2017, originally HMV 1965

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Elgar 

  • Symphony No. 2 In E Flat, Op.63
  • Falstaff - Symphonic Study In C Minor Op. 68

Hallé Orchestra
Seraphim 2LP box reissue, late 60’s, originally HMV 1964


 

 

Britten conducts 

  • Britten - Symphony For Cello And Orchestra, Op.68
  • Haydn - Concerto In C For Cello And Orchestra

English Chamber Orchestra w/Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
London 1964

 

Maksim Shostakovich conducts his father Dmitri Shostakovich

  • Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 99

New Philharmonia Orchestra with David Oistrach, violin
Angel 1973

Zdeněk Košler conducts Martinů

  • Concerto No. 1 For Cello & Orchestra
  • Concerto For Violin, Piano & Orchestra

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 
Josef Chuchro cello
Jaroslav Kolář piano
Nora Grumlíková violin
Supraphon 1973, Czechoslovakia release

Zdeněk Košler conducts Martinů

  • Concerto No. 2 For Violoncello And Orchestra

The Prague Symphony Orchestra w/Saša Večtomov cello
Supraphon repress 1978, originally 1967, Czechoslovakia release


 

Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary (Birthday) Celebration

Isaac Stern violin
Itzhak Perlman violin
Pinchas Zukerman violin & viola
Zubin Mehta conducting The New York Philharmonic

  • Bach : Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins And Orchestra, BWV 1043
  • Vivaldi : Concerto In F Major For Three Violins, F. 1, No. 34
  • Mozart : Sinfonia Concertante In E-Flat Major For Violin, Viola And Orchestra, K. 364

Recorded live at the Lincoln Center
CBS Masterworks 1981

The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse

Interscope Records 2LP reissue 2016, originally 1996

Herbert Blomstedt conducts Nielsen
The Concertos Of Carl Nielsen

  • Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57
  • Flute Concerto
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 33
  • Symphonic Rhapsody

Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra w/ Kjell-Inge Stevensson clarinet, Frantz Lemsser flute, & Arve Tellefsen violin
Seraphim 2LP box 1975

Mariss Jansons conducts Johan Svendsen

  • Symphony No. 1 In D Major, Op. 4
  • Symphony No. 2 In B Flat Major, Op. 15

Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester
EMI / His Masters Voice, 1988, European release

Böhm conducts Haydn
Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons

  • I. Der Frühling Nr. 1 - Nr. 6
  • I. Der Frühling (Fortsetzung) Nr. 7 - Nr. 9
  • II. Der Sommer Nr. 10 - Nr. 12
  • II. Der Sommer (Fortsetzung) Nr. 13 - Nr. 20 
  • III. Der Herbst Nr. 21 - Nr. 27
  • III. Der Herbst (Fortsetzung) Nr. 28 - Nr. 31
  • IV. Der Winter Nr. 32 - Nr. 36
  • IV. Der Winter (Fortsetzung) Nr. 37 - Nr. 44

Wiener Symphoniker with Kurt Rapf, harpsichord 
Wiener Singverein, Helmuth Froschauer Choir Master

  • Gundula Janowitz, soprano 
  • Peter Schreier, tenor
  • Martti Talvela, bass

Deutsche Grammophon reissue 3LP box 1981, originally 1959
German release

Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano / Régis Pasquier, violin / Roland Pidoux, cello :
Ernest Chausson

  • Trio Pour Piano, Violon Et Violoncelle, Op. 3
  • En Sol Mineur
  • Pièce Pour Violoncelle Et Piano, Op. 39 En Do Majeur. 

Harmonia Mundi 1984
 

 

In memory of Pollini who just passed at 82. R.I.P.

Maurizio Pollini plays Schumann

  • Klaviersonate Nr. 1 Fis-Moll Op. 11
  • Fantasie C-Dur Op. 17

Deutsche Grammophon 1983, German release

Casals plays Schubert

  • String Quintet In C Major, Op. 163, D. 956

Pablo Casals & Paul Szabo, cello
György Janzer, viola
Sándor Végh & Sándor Zöldy, violin

Recorded live at the Casals Festival, Prades
Turnabout reissue 1971, originally 1966

 

A. Glazunov Works for the String Quartet

  • Three Pieces For Two Violins, Viola And Cello From The Set Of "Fridays"
  • Quartet No. 3 For Two Violins, Viola And Cello In G Major, Op. 26 "Slavonic"

Alexander Balashov & Andre Shishlov, violin 
Alexander Galkovsky, viola
Alexander Korchagin, cello

Мелодия 1978, USSR release


 

S. Taneyev
The Taneyev Quartet of Leningrad

  • Quartet No. 9 for Two Vilions, Viola, and Cello in A Major

Мелодия 1979, USSR release 


 

 

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time out

Columbia / Music On Vinyl reissue 2010, originally 1959

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Blue Note Tone Poet reissue 2022, originally 1957

The Ahmad Jamal Trio - Awakening 

Verve/Impulse reissue 2023, originally Impulse 1970

The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk’s Dream

Wax Time in Color reissue 2018, originally 1963 Columbia

 

György Lehel conducts Bartók

  • Symphonic Poem "Kossuth" Sz. 75a, Bb 31
  • Scherzo In C Major From Symphony In E Flat Major Dd 68, Bb 25
  • Scherzo For Piano And Orchestra

The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra w/Tusa Erzsébet, piano

Hungaroton 1971, Bartók Béla Complete Edition, Posthumous Works, Hungarian release

Happy Birthday Béla, all evening long…..

H György Lehel conducts Bartók

  • Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta
  • The Miraculous Mandarin - Concert Suite

Budapest Symphony Orchestra. 
Hungaroton 1967, part of the Bartók Béla Complete Edition


 

Miklós Erdélyi conducts Bartók

  • Two Portraits, Op. 5 (1907-08)
  • Two Pictures, Op. 10 (1910)
  • Four Pieces For Orchestra, Op. 12 (1912)

The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Hungaroton, Bartók Béla Complete Edition, I. Orchestral Music 3 1967

Kiril Kondrashin conducts Shostakovich

  • Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & RSFSR Russian Chorus
Melodiya/Angel 1973


 

Karajan conducts Shostakovich

  • Symphony No. 10

Berlin Philharmonic.
Deutsche Grammophon 1967 Italian release
 

 

Bernstein conducts Prokofiev 

  • Symphony No. 5

New York Philharmonic 
Columbia ‘Two Eye’ 1967

UAlois Klíma conducts Prokofiev

  • Summer Day Suite, Op.65 w/Prague Chamber Orchestra
  • A Winter Camp Fire w/Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Crossroads, unknown release, guessing late 60’s

Arnold Katz conducts S. Taneyev

  • Concerto-Suite For Violin And Orchestra

Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra w/Igor Oistrach violin
Мелодия 1980, USSR release

 

Antal Dorati conducts 

  • Rimsky-Korsakov Le Co D'Or Suite
  • Borodin - Prince Igor Excerpts

London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Mercury 1973

A classic recording….

Reiner conducts Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Scheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra w/Sidney Harth, violin
RCA Victor Red Seal 1960

Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline 

Columbia reissue, probably mid-70’s, originally 1969

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Island reissue 2014 180g, originally 1969

Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and The Ravens

Island reissue 2022 180g, originally 1971

Kottke’s first recording

Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues

Recorded live @ the Scholar Coffee Shop in Minneapolis.

Oblivion 1969