-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of William Crump Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:19 PM
My parents had a small stack of vinyl, but it was all Mitch Miller, Eddy Arnold, the Longines Symphonette, etc. But there was one classical album that completely laid me out flat: Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Szell conducting Cleveland, Rudolf Serkin at the pianner.
That's interesting -- my folks had a lot of vinyl as well (lots of Sinatra, thank goodness, but also Ray Conniff, Mitch Miller, etc., which started me on my road to exotica, and a two-album set of "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" with Uta Hagen that simply rocked), but I was never very attuned to the classical music they owned (lots of Tchaikovsky). But, as William writes, there was one classical album that also "completely laid me out flat:" a recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, with Szell at the helm, and Emil Gilels playing the piano. Now I gotta go see if it's in print, Ben np: merzbow, "space metalizer" http://www.thewilyfilipino.com