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Good stuff.

I've never heard that one. Is it similar to Munch's recording of Berlioz's Requiem for RCA with the Boston SO?

Yes, it's an excellent LP. Really, I think all of the Hanna-Mraz duo collaborations are special. Bummer about the blown fuses.

Yes!!!

Enrico Pieranunzi & Marc Johnson - Yellow & Blue Suites (Challenge) Keep coming back to this one again and again. Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel - Riding the Nuclear Tiger (Palmetto)

Jerry Jeff Walker - Great Gonzos (MCA)

You're not alone. Lots of folks dislike Ormandy. I have a soft spot for him because his recordings of Charles Ives' music were my gateway into Ives' world. Ormandy's version of "Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut" -- from Three Places in New England -- FLATTENED me when I first heard it in college. I'd never heard anything like it, and I've loved Ives' music ever since. Gotta say tho', I like Ormandy in other repertory too -- especially Russian composers like Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky. Even Prokofiev and Shostakovich. I also appreciate his Sibelius and many of his recordings by French and Spanish composers. Just my 2 cents. Now playing: Disc 2 - Music by Ravel, de Falla, and Rodrigo

Beethoven symphonies today. No. 4 / Jochum, LSO No. 5 / Herbert von Karajan, Berlin PO No. 6 Pastoral / Karl Böhm, Vienna PO

Jochum & the LSO performing LvB's Third Symphony. A magnificent Eroica!

Speaking of Rubinstein: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rubinstein, Ormandy, Philadelphia O (RCA) Also: Rachmaninov: The Bells / Kondrashin, Moscow PO, et al (Angel / Melodiya)

J.S. Bach: The Complete Flute Sonatas / Jean-Pierre Rampal, Robert Veyron-Lacroix (Columbia Odyssey) Sides 1 & 2 My copy doesn't have as much ring-wear as shown in the pic above!

Arnold Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 2 / Thomson, Ulster Orchestra (Chandos)

Now: Earlier: Disc 1

Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas / Alfred Brendel (Philips) Disc 2: Sonatas Nos. 17 Tempest, 21 Waldstein, and 23 Appassionata

Beethoven Bicentennial Collection: Music for Piano, Vol. VIII (DG) Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 - performed by Géza Anda and Lili Kraus plays Fantasies (Vanguard) Music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart & Schubert

Arthur Rubinstein plays Brahms (RCA Red Seal/Sony) Disc 7: Chamber Music - Trio No. 3, Op. 101 - with Szeryng and Fournier - Piano Quintet, Op. 34 - with the Guarneri String Quartet

More Pieranunzi:

Schubert's Symphonies Nos. 4 "Tragic" and 5 from this set: