November 27 Randy Brecker - 1945 - 80 today!

The Kodaly are nice and used to be comparatively cheap. The Angeles Quartet also has a complete set that I like.

I seem to remember those Firestone & Goodyear LPs in my parents' record stash. My brother might have all of those Christmas records. I was offered them when my parents passed but they were very heavily played on an old console record player, probably with a ceramic cartridge and usually with them stacked 3 or 4 LPs high. I actually did take one home - Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but it was so scratched up, I could barely hear the music. Record care was not a thing back then. 

They haven’t made a bad record but in duo form I’d also highly recommend the Bimhuis record and Sempre Amore.

During the last few days, I have been listening to these four discs, some of the best Tete Montoliu recordings: