[Jenn[_3_]]

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On Sep 26, 8:37?am, Jenn wrote:
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?Jenn wrote:
I had a gig up in Palo Alto yesterday, so I stopped by my favorite
Northern CA LP and stereo shop, The Analog Room in San Jose. ?So many
new LPs on display, I could have spent a bloody fortune. ?I settled on
6, new and used:

New:
Stacey Kent: Dreamsville ? Candid Records

I know that I'm not supposed to know about these things because I'm an
"ivory tower professor" at a "rural community college", but this is
GREAT female jazz vocal singing. ?And the recording is simply marvelous,
in a "singer and combo is in the room with you" kind of way. ?Very
highly recommended.

Stravinsky: ?Song of the Nightingale and smaller works ?
Speaker's Corner/Mercury

Mendelssohn and Prokofiev Violin Concerti ?Heifetz/Munch/BSO
Classic Records/RCA

Prokofiev Lt. Kije and Stravinsky Nightingale (again)
Classic Records/RCA

Better than the original RCA and the Chesky reissue, I think.

Respighi The Birds ?Dorati/LSO
Speaker's Corner/Mercury

Used:

Kodaly and Bartok works ?Mercury ?Dorati/Philharmonia Hungarica

A decent copy of a fine recording, Side 1=great ?Side 2=fair

Berlioz Harold in Italy ?Munch/BSO

A pristine copy of a great record. ?Expensive but worth it.

A great day: making music and buying recordings! ?;-)

Anyway, as I was saying...

I spent last evening, my first available since getting these recordings,
carefully listening to one of them. ?I had a lot of time with the
Classic Records Prokofiev Lt. Kije. ?This is one of my favorite
recordings of all time. ?I have the original RCA, the really good Chesky
reissue, and all of the CD reissues. ?The two RCA CDs and the JVC
release are all quite good. ?I could easily live with them if I had to. ?
There is minimum "damage" to the instrumental timbres on each of these
CDs. ?But the current Classic Records issue is another matter all
together. ?This is the best of all of the recordings, IMO, and the best
Classic Records release that I've heard. ?It's a stunning recording. ?
Bud Herseth's solos are so believable. ?The string section, especially
the first violins, are incredible sounding in their timbres and their
stereo imaging. ?I believe that this is now my favorite recording in any
format that I've heard in my home.-

I love Prokofiev, so i think I may have to check this out as well. Do
you have any favorite recordings of Romeo and Juliet? I've been
listening to my London CD of Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra for about 20 years, and I want to try something different. I
had an LP with Ozawa conducting for many years, but it was a very
condensed version with all of the selections out of order.

If you want something really different, wait for a recording of the
original version with the happy ending. Prokofiev's Christian Science
beliefs led him to depict transcendence rather than suicide but he had
to abandon the effort and produce a revised version that met with
Stalin's approval:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...atures/the-dic
tators-cut-prokofievs-romeo-and-juliet-858191.html

I don't know if it's been recorded yet.

Stephen

Hmmm, something about that rings a bell about a recording. I'll look
around.

By the way, I failed to mention another of my favorite R&Js: MTT and the
SFS. Really good.