Thirty three and a third.

[aligreto]

PD where are you? (watching tennis I expect). She is a big Moravec fan.

I am certainly no expert on pianism but he is one that I particularly like to listen to, not that I have much of his work in my collection.

[Irons]

I am certainly no expert on pianism but he is one that I particularly like to listen to, not that I have much of his work in my collection.

I'm no expert either but to paraphrase what someone said "I like the sound it makes".



I have only two LP issues by Moravec, a double album on Supraphon and solo piano pieces of Debussy and Ravel on Connoisseur Society.

[Irons]

I do not actively search for LPs like I once did but the vinyl Gods smiled down to me. Passing a charity shop at Kingston Upon Thames today I spied an assistant filling a LP bin. I waited until she finished - WOW

Paganini/Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos 2 & 1. Ricci, Cincinnati SO Rudolf. Brunswick SXA 4529.

Glazunov: The Seasons & Concert Waltzes. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca (wide band) SXL 6269.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Young Person's Guide. Giulini, Philharmonia. SAX 2555.

Lalo/Saint Saens: Cello Concertos. Fournier, Orchestra Lamoureux, Martinon. DG (Tulips, red box stereo) 138669 SLPM.

Rachmaninov/Tscherepnin: Paganini Rhapsody & 10 Bagatelles. Weber RSOB Fricsay. (Tulips, red box stereo) 138710 SLPM.

Schumann: Symphonies 1&4. Krips, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 2223.

Haydn: Symphonies 82 & 86. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca(wide band) SXL 6020.

Miaskovsky: 27th Symphony. Svetlanov, USSR ASO. Melodiya C10-14677-78.

Goldmark/Sarsate: VC No.1 & Zigeunerweisen. Perlman, Pittsburgh SO Previn. EMI ASD 3408.

Schumann: 2nd Symphony. Szell, Cleveland. Columbia (blue and silver) SAX 2496.

Dvorak: 3rd Symphony & Hussite. Kertesz, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 6290.

Kalliwoda/Tomasek (neither have I!) 1st Symphony & 1st Piano Concerto. Toperczer, Prague SO Rohan. Vox STGBY 677.

Weber: Piano Sonatas. D'Arco. L'Oiseau-Lyre. SOL 271.

Rimasky-Korsakov: 3rd Symphony & Piano Concerto. Zhukov, MRSO Rozhdestvensky.





All from a single collection. Unfortunately each has the date of purchase written in biro on the back cover. This will detract from the ultimate selling price not that I intend on selling them.   

[aligreto]

I do not actively search for LPs like I once did but the vinyl Gods smiled down to me. Passing a charity shop at Kingston Upon Thames today I spied an assistant filling a LP bin. I waited until she finished - WOW

Paganini/Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos 2 & 1. Ricci, Cincinnati SO Rudolf. Brunswick SXA 4529.

Glazunov: The Seasons & Concert Waltzes. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca (wide band) SXL 6269.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Young Person's Guide. Giulini, Philharmonia. SAX 2555.

Lalo/Saint Saens: Cello Concertos. Fournier, Orchestra Lamoureux, Martinon. DG (Tulips, red box stereo) 138669 SLPM.

Rachmaninov/Tscherepnin: Paganini Rhapsody & 10 Bagatelles. Weber RSOB Fricsay. (Tulips, red box stereo) 138710 SLPM.

Schumann: Symphonies 1&4. Krips, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 2223.

Haydn: Symphonies 82 & 86. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca(wide band) SXL 6020.

Miaskovsky: 27th Symphony. Svetlanov, USSR ASO. Melodiya C10-14677-78.

Goldmark/Sarsate: VC No.1 & Zigeunerweisen. Perlman, Pittsburgh SO Previn. EMI ASD 3408.

Schumann: 2nd Symphony. Szell, Cleveland. Columbia (blue and silver) SAX 2496.

Dvorak: 3rd Symphony & Hussite. Kertesz, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 6290.

Kalliwoda/Tomasek (neither have I!) 1st Symphony & 1st Piano Concerto. Toperczer, Prague SO Rohan. Vox STGBY 677.

Weber: Piano Sonatas. D'Arco. L'Oiseau-Lyre. SOL 271.

Rimasky-Korsakov: 3rd Symphony & Piano Concerto. Zhukov, MRSO Rozhdestvensky.





All from a single collection. Unfortunately each has the date of purchase written in biro on the back cover. This will detract from the ultimate selling price not that I intend on selling them.

That is a great haul. What a spot of luck with your timing 

[Spotted Horses]

That is a great haul. What a spot of luck with your timing 

Yes, lucky that the poor bloke died just in time for you to spot his LP collection at the charity shop! 

[aligreto]

Yes, lucky that the poor bloke died just in time for you to spot his LP collection at the charity shop! 

I do not actively search for LPs like I once did but the vinyl Gods smiled down to me. Passing a charity shop at Kingston Upon Thames today I spied an assistant filling a LP bin. I waited until she finished - WOW

Who mentioned anyone dying?

You are seeing things that are not there and not seeing things that are there. 

I have donated many, many albums to charity shops without being dead.

[Spotted Horses]

I have donated many, many albums to charity shops without being dead.

Of course, you are quite right. In 2015 I put my entire LP collection at the curb to be picked up by the trash collectors. Well over a hundred LPs.

[DavidW]

Of course, you are quite right. In 2015 I put my entire LP collection at the curb to be picked up by the trash collectors. Well over a hundred LPs.

Man you could have given it to Goodwill.

[Irons]

That is a great haul. What a spot of luck with your timing 

I choose CDs and LPs choose me. I had no intention of going to Kingston on Thursday which I recall only the second visit this year. The old antenna twitched, which is finely honed after decades of collecting vinyl seeing those records being put out.

I often think of past owners of records on my shelves. Looking at this small collection - is there more! Not in anyway typical, although the musical choice holds no surprises, all are first pressings without tell-tale marks around centre hole or, what I always look for, a crease in jacket from repeated removal. Most odd though are the dates in the lower right hand corner of back cover - as written, Dec 1963, Dec 1963, Dec, 1965, Xmas, 1967, April 1968, Nov 1970, March, 1982 and Jany (sic) 1985. The rest not dated but with the exception of possibly the Vox LP probably same source. Over twenty years from first to last of at most fourteen LPs.     

[Spotted Horses]

Man you could have given it to Goodwill.

I gave a pile of books to goodwill. Then I realized that I had given them a book that I had intended to keep. I went back and asked what became of those books. Was my book in a store where I could find it and buy it back? Naw, I was told. Books get sold for pulp. Hard time imagine LPs meet a more dignified fate.

[DavidW]

I gave a pile of books to goodwill. Then I realized that I had given them a book that I had intended to keep. I went back and asked what became of those books. Was my book in a store where I could find it and buy it back? Naw, I was told. Books get sold for pulp. Hard time imagine LPs meet a more dignified fate.

Well actually they probably would have sold them (lps) online.  I think selling books for pulp is a better fate than having it sit unloved in the store front or sitting in a landfill.  But that being said, except during quarantine, I always donate books to the public library instead.  They are either put them in circulation or sold at the biannual book sell.

Probably the best thing you could have done was send it to a gmg poster.  But then again, I offered a brand new sealed Simpson's 5th and 6th cd with no takers (btw that offer is still open).

[Spotted Horses]

Well actually they probably would have sold them (lps) online.  I think selling books for pulp is a better fate than having it sit unloved in the store front or sitting in a landfill.  But that being said, except during quarantine, I always donate books to the public library instead.  They are either put them in circulation or sold at the biannual book sell.

I did take some to the library, but they had limited drop-off to 2 boxes. I didn't have time for that.

I guess I should not mention the time I threw 2,000 classical CDs in a dumpster. They were ripped. I wasn't going to pay United Van Lines to move them just so I would have to rent a storage unit for them when I arrived.

[vandermolen]

I do not actively search for LPs like I once did but the vinyl Gods smiled down to me. Passing a charity shop at Kingston Upon Thames today I spied an assistant filling a LP bin. I waited until she finished - WOW

Paganini/Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos 2 & 1. Ricci, Cincinnati SO Rudolf. Brunswick SXA 4529.

Glazunov: The Seasons & Concert Waltzes. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca (wide band) SXL 6269.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Young Person's Guide. Giulini, Philharmonia. SAX 2555.

Lalo/Saint Saens: Cello Concertos. Fournier, Orchestra Lamoureux, Martinon. DG (Tulips, red box stereo) 138669 SLPM.

Rachmaninov/Tscherepnin: Paganini Rhapsody & 10 Bagatelles. Weber RSOB Fricsay. (Tulips, red box stereo) 138710 SLPM.

Schumann: Symphonies 1&4. Krips, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 2223.

Haydn: Symphonies 82 & 86. Ansermet, Suisse Romande. Decca(wide band) SXL 6020.

Miaskovsky: 27th Symphony. Svetlanov, USSR ASO. Melodiya C10-14677-78.

Goldmark/Sarsate: VC No.1 & Zigeunerweisen. Perlman, Pittsburgh SO Previn. EMI ASD 3408.

Schumann: 2nd Symphony. Szell, Cleveland. Columbia (blue and silver) SAX 2496.

Dvorak: 3rd Symphony & Hussite. Kertesz, LSO. Decca (wide band) SXL 6290.

Kalliwoda/Tomasek (neither have I!) 1st Symphony & 1st Piano Concerto. Toperczer, Prague SO Rohan. Vox STGBY 677.

Weber: Piano Sonatas. D'Arco. L'Oiseau-Lyre. SOL 271.

Rimasky-Korsakov: 3rd Symphony & Piano Concerto. Zhukov, MRSO Rozhdestvensky.





All from a single collection. Unfortunately each has the date of purchase written in biro on the back cover. This will detract from the ultimate selling price not that I intend on selling them.

Great haul Lol. Seeing that LP of NYM Symphony 27 was a great nostalgia trip for me as the LP was my first encounter with that noble work. Thumbs up for the Ansermet Glazunov disc as well. Happy Listening!

[Irons]

Great haul Lol. Seeing that LP of NYM Symphony 27 was a great nostalgia trip for me as the LP was my first encounter with that noble work. Thumbs up for the Ansermet Glazunov disc as well. Happy Listening!

Thanks, Jeffrey. I have collected over time most of Miaskovsky's string quartets but this is the first time I have set eyes on a Svetlanov LP of the composer.

BTW. A terrific performance with sound to match (circa 1960) from Margrit Weber and Fricsay of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

[aligreto]

I choose CDs and LPs choose me. I had no intention of going to Kingston on Thursday which I recall only the second visit this year. The old antenna twitched, which is finely honed after decades of collecting vinyl seeing those records being put out.

I often think of past owners of records on my shelves. Looking at this small collection - is there more! Not in anyway typical, although the musical choice holds no surprises, all are first pressings without tell-tale marks around centre hole or, what I always look for, a crease in jacket from repeated removal. Most odd though are the dates in the lower right hand corner of back cover - as written, Dec 1963, Dec 1963, Dec, 1965, Xmas, 1967, April 1968, Nov 1970, March, 1982 and Jany (sic) 1985. The rest not dated but with the exception of possibly the Vox LP probably same source. Over twenty years from first to last of at most fourteen LPs.     

Enjoy your good fortune and, of course, the music.

[Irons]

Enjoy your good fortune and, of course, the music.

Thanks, Fergus.



The only non-orchestral of the group that crept up on me. I have no idea of the qualities or otherwise of Weber. The 3rd Sonata I found particularly impressive with a Beethoven-esque  opening which suddenly softens - don't know the pianistic term but made me sit up and listen as totally unexpected.

A 1964 recording of which Annie D'Arco performs admirably, my only slight criticism is the piano sound which is a bit clangerly (is that a word ).

[Valentino]

So I threw out the 1987 American and got myself a 1973 German.


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Thorens TD 125 Mk. II with SME Series II Improved arm (fixed HS version), and for the time being a rather worn Denon DL-304 cartridge. The console/plinth is original teak veneer but it has been deep cleaned and oiled, stiffened inside with 21 mm Baltic birch plywood, and put on some fat sorbothane feet. I have retained the original bottom plate and feet, so it can be put back to original looks. Corian arm board, a brand new electronics control board that swaps 16 2/3 rpm for 78, and a Denon DL-301II are on order.

Celebrated with an expensive pressing of Richters reworked rework of Vivaldi. I think I like this new one better than the first one.

[Irons]

So I threw out the 1987 American and got myself a 1973 German.


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Thorens TD 125 Mk. II with SME Series II Improved arm (fixed HS version), and for the time being a rather worn Denon DL-304 cartridge. The console/plinth is original teak veneer but it has been deep cleaned and oiled, stiffened inside with 21 mm Baltic birch plywood, and put on some fat sorbothane feet. I have retained the original bottom plate and feet, so it can be put back to original looks. Corian arm board, a brand new electronics control board that swaps 16 2/3 rpm for 78, and a Denon DL-301II are on order.

Celebrated with an expensive pressing of Richters reworked rework of Vivaldi. I think I like this new one better than the first one.

I like the clean lines of your Thorens preferring it to the famous 124. Similar to the Garrard 301 - 401 there is little difference, if any, in performance. I have never owned a Denon DL-304 which in the vinyl fraternity is unusual. I am surprised your SME 3009 Improved can handle a moving coil cartridge, my (detachable headshell) could not. 

[Irons]

Dvorak 3rd Symphony.

Reading posts on GMG quite often one sticks in the old memory bank. Only a couple of weeks ago, forgive me I didn't note the member's name, made the point that it does not make sense that the Dvorak early symphonies are not held in the esteem of the later although every bit as good. My repeated playing of the 3rd confirms this. A symphony musical to it's fingertips!

[Valentino]

I like the clean lines of your Thorens preferring it to the famous 124. Similar to the Garrard 301 - 401 there is little difference, if any, in performance. I have never owned a Denon DL-304 which in the vinyl fraternity is unusual. I am surprised your SME 3009 Improved can handle a moving coil cartridge, my (detachable headshell) could not.

The DL-304 (if you can find one anymore) and the DL-301II are reportedly doing fine in the Improved, and I can attest to that for the 304. Both are quite high compliant (14 @100 Hz, say 23 @10 Hz), and tracking 90 um at 1,2 g. So pretty soft and not too much energy to the arm. I am going to cheat and soft mount it with an Origin Live Cartridge Enabler to see if there is a chance to calm it down a wee bit more. If not I'll have to bite the bullet: Ortofon 2M Black or the unsung, cheaper and just as good Super OM40. Other options could be a Soundsmith tipped Grace or a Soundsmith. We'll see. I'd have to get another phono amp for Grace and Soundsmith. My MM is fixed at 40 dB gain and 150 pF load, perfect for Ortofons but not much else.

The TD 125 superseded the TD124 Mk. II. I love the looks of this simple straight sided plinth. I've thought that Tandberg must have used the same designer for their receivers at the time, e.g. the TR2075. It's also a better, quieter turntable than the 124. Get a TD125 Mk. II before people find out how good it is and prices soar. Mechanically it's just about indestructible. I'm of course on the lookout for a J-shaped SME with detachable headshell.



This pic shows what's done to the plinth/cabinet. The glued birch ply along the sides support the original chassis mounting blocks, and the  large corner braces are screwed on. Fat sorbothane feet. I've given it a new mains cable since this shot.



I like the optics a lot. A domestic machine.

- Finally they've made a machine that's useful.
(Robert Redford in Out of Africa, presenting a gramophone playing Mozart as a gift to  Meryl Streep.)

Making a note on the virtues of early Dvorak symphonies. Thanks.