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Enjoy it! Should be tasting very fine!

Engineers and supervisors obviously had to gain some experience with stereo mixing. Rudy Van Gelder wrote in his notes to the SACD issue of Coltrane's album with Johnny Hartman (which included both stereo and mono mixes) that engineers were told to do the mono mix with special care until the late 1960's. Considering the fact that stereo turntables took many years to dominate the market, this is only logical I once had an old Teleton receiver with a blend knob from stereo to mono. A priceless feature.

That looks like a great edition! This afternoon: The latter three from this box set:

This afternoon:

Our evening bottle this weekend: A rare cuvée of 70% Merlot and 30% Malbec from a Pays d'Oc winery.

Had this on my want list for many years to complement the ten boxes of Hogwood's Haydn Symphonies. It's a shame the label wouldn't let him complete it. Now Disc II of the Vivaldi string concertos:

Steven Albin is a very reliable software developper.

This Trip LP has no musician credits. It turns out it is a reissue of this LP: So the fine accompaniment is by none less than Roland Hanna ......

On to Disc III

New release date over here is May 29, 2020.

There is a nice freeware, Beyond Category, programmed for this purpose. I use its companian software, BRIAN, for serious discographical purposes. I have typed my collection into discogs and the Tom Lord Discography, but will continue with Beyond Category soon. Too many issues are missing in both the latter databases.

Ross' playing is extremely accurate and all, but for my taste it lacks the Italian or rather Southern Mediterranean temperament this music encapsulates, even in the pieces he wrote before he left for Iberian regions. Southern Italy belonged to Spain at the time, and much Italian music has Spanish characteristics and vice versa. Domenico Scarlatti was open to these influences. There are plenty compilation recordings that are much better at displaying these characteristics than Ross' complete set, even though it is now available at bargain price. There is much baroque music that is not sounding as homogeneous as we today, trained more in listening to later 18th century "classical" music, expect it to be. These pieces were not supposed to be "works" in the sense of "opus" that late 19th century musicology defined it. They are "suites", a series of pieces sharing a common key, and supposed to entertain, display varying and ever changing moods to excite the senses. There are many different ways of balancing a compositional "whole" and entertainment, counterpoint and superficial accessibility between Bach, Graupner, Telemann, and their contemporaries. Just let yourself get carried away through the changing moods and your will get the most from this music. I, for one, find it more exciting than the more homogeneous later sonata and concerto forms, just like I dig 17th century operas more tha 18th century with their excess of da capo arias.

Disc II

Got this for 1 € plus shipping. Hibbler was a true original, and one of the best singers of his generation, IMHO. Now, more Hibbler: