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Bill Barron - The Next Plateau (Muse, 1989)

I have Kondrashin's recording of DSCH's Fourth on vinyl only. So I'm no help to you. Sorry.

Ralph Towner - Batik (ECM)

This again: Ralph Towner / Solstice - Sound and Shadows (ECM) with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, and Jon Christensen

In you continue in order... Kondrashin's recording of DSCH's Symphony No. 4 is a "desert-island disc" for this listener!

Very cool. It's always fun when early discoveries hold up!

Yeah. That photo is... uh, let's just say "Goofy." OTOH, the music is excellent -- a DBQ record that I frequently pull from the shelf.

Good fun.

Such a great record! I'm going to queue that one up next.

Roy Brooks - The Free Slave (Muse, rec. 1970) with George Coleman, Woody Shaw, Hugh Lawson, and Cecil McBee Outstanding.

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Arnold Bax: Symphony No. 4; Tintagel / Bryden Thomson, Ulster Orchestra (Chandos)

I'm a Russian literature and history junkie, but I've never read those Sholokhov books. I need to fix that, add And Quiet Flows the Don to my reading list.

From this listener's point of view, Kondrashin's DSCH is unsurpassed. NP: Hard to beat Reiner's "Living Stereo" Scheherazade. It's scary good.

Disc 2 - Music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov conducted by Markevitch or Maazel

One more -- Just remembered this NHOP duo collaboration with Kenneth Knudsen:

Definitely worth checking out if you're a Charlie Rich fan: Peter Guralnick's book that takes its title from that Rich song. Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n Roll

Duke Ellington - New York, New York: 1970-1972 (Storyville) From the stockpile.

Beethoven: Piano Cto No. 2; Piano Sonata, Op. 53 "Waldstein" / Claudio Arrau, Haitink, COA (Philips)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" / Carlo Maria Giulini, LSO & Chorus, et al (Angel, 2 LPs) Snagged this from a local shop's dollar bin a few months ago. I'm just now giving it a first spin. I was happy to find it because, generally speaking, I'm a fan of Giulini's conducting. His recording of LvB's 7th (with the CSO) has been one of my favorites for many years. ... So far, I'm enjoying Giulini's LvB 9 too.

Very persuasive Schumann. Dark and brooding. Romantic with a capital "R." Tennstedt doing his thing.