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There's always more music to discover. I like that. Now I'm listening to two different versions of Vaughan Williams' Fourth Symphony back-to-back. First up: Paul Daniel with the Bournemouth SO (Naxos) And now spinning on my 'table: André Previn with the London SO (RCA) LP engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson ("Oh yeah!") on Dynaflex vinyl ("Oh no!").

Now playing a recent acquisition: Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 / Tintner, RSNO (Naxos) This is the first recording I've heard by conductor Georg Tintner. I like his approach very much -- relatively transparent textures; less monumental, more "flowing." And there's no shortage of atmosphere, despite of the lighter touch. ...It's easy to hear Wagner in Bruckner, but I think Tintner's way with the music makes Bruckner's connection to Beethoven more pronounced. I remember when Tintner's Bruckner recordings on Naxos were first released and making a big splash. I read about them in Gramophone and the rest. It's odd that those days were 20 (!) years ago. And I'm just getting around to hearing them now. Better late than never, I guess.

Picking up an old thread. . . Without a doubt, this is my favorite version of DLvdE:

One of my favorite versions of this symphony.

Arthur Rubinstein Plays Brahms (RCA Red Seal) Disc 6 - Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 - with Henryk Szeryng and Pierre Fournier

Earlier today, Mozart & Beethoven by Alfred Brendel: Late Sonatas

More RVW from Sir Adrian Boult:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6; The Lark Ascending, Hugh Bean (vn soloist) / Boult, New Philharmonia O (Angel) Hard to top Boult when it comes to RVW.

Sir Charles Thompson - Hey There! (Black & Blue) with Major Holley & Ed Thigpen

Earlier this afternoon: Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie - The Gifted Ones (Pablo) with Ray Brown & Mickey Roker ! ! !

Ben Webster - At the Renaissance (Contemporary, rec. 1960) with Jimmy Rowles, Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, and Frank Butler One of Ben's best, IMO.

New York Jazz Quartet - Oasis (Enja)

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Salvatore Accardo, Orchestra da Camera Italiana (RCA Victrola)

David "Fathead" Newman - It's Mister Fathead (Atlantic/32 Jazz) Disc 1 - originally released as Fathead: Ray Charles Presents David Newman and Straight Ahead

David "Fathead" Newman - It's Mister Fathead (Atlantic/32 Jazz) Disc 2 - originally released as Fathead Comes On and House of David

Kenny Barron + Buster Williams - 2 as 1 (Red)

Kenny Barron - At the Piano (Xanadu/Elemental)

Kenny Barron - New York Attitude (Uptown, rec. 1984) with Rufus Reid & Freddie Waits

Just found out about this; available on March 1, 2019: Timeless All Stars - At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1982 (Jazz Line, Germany) with Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Buster Williams, and Billy Higgins CD consists of four LONG cuts: 1. Tokudo (19:18) 2. My Foolish Heart (14:38) 3. Clockwise (20:32) 4. Mapenzi (20:52) Needless to say, I'll be all over this one.

CD compiles two Bartz LPs: Juju Street Songs and Follow the Medicine Man Excellent.

Don't forget forum member Buddha the Magnificent. He's in Georgia too, down in Savannah. And Ken Dryden is just across the state line, up near Chattanooga. . . . A few slightly more famous Georgians: James Brown (raised in Augusta, GA) and Otis Redding (born in Dawson, GA; raised in Macon, GA). Georgia stakes an honorary claim to Ray Charles too -- even tho' he was raised in Florida -- because he was born in Albany. All sorts of Georgia connections. I don't know what's in the wax. If you'd like, I can look tonight when I get home from work.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (Archiv) with Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gilles Cachemaille, and Monteverdi Choir

James Moody - The Blues and Other Colors (Milestone/OJC) Still grooving to this. Moody on soprano sax (rare) and interesting Tom McIntosh arrangements (as usual).