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Listening to this now via Spotify. Wow. I'm going to have to get this CD!

Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 / New Budapest String Quartet Lovely.

I'm now listening to Hermann Scherchen & the London SO perform Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique:

Yes. I agree. It's a desert-island disc for me as well.

Now spinning this LP, prompted by soulpope's Géza Anda records earlier in this thread: I love the absolute directness of Anda's Chopin playing. No perfume, no fussiness. "Manly" Chopin. Not that other approaches to this music are off-track. It's just that Anda draws out aspects of this music that others sometimes overlook -- a sort of pithy strength.

That looks interesting! NP: Brahms: Lieder / Margaret Price, James Lockhart (Orfeo) Exquisite in every way.

NP: with a Cadillac rhythm section -- Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz & Billy Hart

Prompted by the David Murray-talk:

Thanks for the heads-up on Izlaz, mjazzg! I wasn't familiar with that one. I do have several of Texier's other recordings on Label Bleu with his European bands. . . . I'm probably in the minority here, but I gotta admit that I prefer Colonel Skopje to some of Texier's more well-known records like Mosaic Man. NP: We all hear things differently. Often one person's dross is another person's gold -- and vice versa.

Henri Texier - Colonel Skopje (Evidence/Label Bleu) I discovered this CD, recorded in 1988, just last year. It's wonderful. Joe Lovano & John Abercrombie fans take note!

Enrico Pieranunzi - The Day After the Silence (Alfa Music) Richie Beirach - Common Heart (Owl) Yeah!

Bush league mistake.