Think I'll wait for the wife to get home to listen to any more of the new box set. Arto Lindsay Salt (2004). I like his stuff from the 80s quite a bit more than I like this, but it's still not bad. It was donated to the public library by a local college radio station that was getting rid of its jazz CDs. Don't think this is jazz, but well worth a buck. Not sure what to make about the cover, though.
Felix Mendelssohn, Symphonies #4 and #5, Boston Symphony Orchestra, c. Chuck Munch (1957 & 1958). #37 in the Sony Living Stereo Box Set V. I.
That's disc #19. We already had about a dozen "Living Stereo" CD releases, but only one of them is duplicated in this box set (Van Cliburn playing a couple of Russky Piano Concertos), so it's a pretty decent bargain. At work: currently listening to...
Man of La Mancha (1965) Music: Mitch Leigh, Lyrics: Joe Darion LP release: Kapp; CD release: MCA; CD re-issue: Decca Broadway The one and only. Simply a great cast recording that can't be surpassed by the many follow-ups. Richard Kiley had the role of a lifetime, but the supporting cast of Broadway veterans was phenomenal as well. Joan Diener as a lusty Aldonza (She was a lusty Lalume in Kismet back in 1953), Robert Rounseville as the Padre (He was the lead in the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide in 1956 -- as well as the title role in the 1951 Powell-Pressburger movie The Tales of Hoffman), and Ray Middleton as the Innkeeper (He played Frank Butler opposite Ethel Merman's Annie Oakley in the original 1946 Annie Get Your Gun).
Good call by Elastic Norseman... Dvorak's Symphony #9, etc. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, c. Fritz Reiner (1957/2005) Really good, esp the beginning of the 4th movement. Next up... Reiner and the CSO doing Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome, and DeBussy's The Sea (1959, 1960). Disc #35 of the boxset.
Hector Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique, etc: Boston Symphony, c. Charles Munch (rec: 1958, rereleased 2008) CD #28 in the box set. This piece usually irritates the hell out of me, but this particular rendition does not. Up next: Julian Bream: Popular Classics for the Spanish Guitar CD#54 in the box set.