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Not technically a reissue, but previously unreleased from the Hat archives: https://mikewestbrook.bandcamp.com/album/the-piano-in-the-room-and-the-blues It's on the "new" AlAy label https://www.alay.ch/ (Note the "non-competition agreement" disclosure that pops up on the alay link 🧐)

Only the Rott String Quartet, not the Bruckner.

Sublime.

Yeah it was Honeck.

Who was the conductor? Manfred Honeck?

This weekend the Pittsburgh Symphony played the Mahler 2. I went twice. It was great. The companion piece, by Boris Pigovat, called Yizkor, was also great both times, and a fitting prelude to the Mahler. More on that here: https://pigovat.com/wordpress/yizkor/

Chansons by Poulenc, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Honegger, and Messiaen. Lovely.

I thought that was a clear implication that there is OP and then there is Tatum, and there is also "look at what I can do" level.

I have heard many versions of the Schumann String Quartets. However, the Vertago Quartet's recording of Quartet No. 2 & 3 is one of the very best I have heard. They play with great passion and intensity (especially on Quartet No.2) that I found thrilling.

You're playing with fire, Dan, by putting Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson at the same level of mastery... Pandora box might be reopened... Having said that, I will check him out!

Disc 2 - Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor & other selections, performed by Elisabeth Leonskaja

I'm all for enthusiastic endorsement, so thank you Allen (and welcome back!): I was sufficiently impressed to listen to most of the rest of that 2023 showcase (when he was all of 18, if I'm not mistaken). With that two-handed wizardry and those supersonic typewriter lines, Phineas Newborn jumped to my mind (he'll probably get the same "soulless technician/speed demon" critics, with some good and some bad reasons). He can be really inventive. I liked his interpretation of Bud's "Celia" and "Monk's Dream", as well as two of originals, I think ("Rose-Colored Paradise" and "Chorale"). An impressive solo "Inner Urge" as well.

Spohr - Double Quartet No.4 and String Quintet No.7

Go to www.worldradiohistory.com , click on the Search button on the left and then check the "Music Magazines" section in the line at the top of the following page that comes up. At first sight I did not see "Cadence" but I might have missed something.

So the Cadence from 7/1/69 might be there or not?