KLCC Beer Fest

Last night some friends, Anthony and I went to the KLCC Beer Fest. There were 40 different breweries there and Anthony and I tried our share. The beers were great, the company was good, but the highlight for me was the record sale.

I have a soft spot for vinyl and that is because it’s cheap. These records cost $1 each and were in perfect condition. Some of them even look virginal. Here’s a list of what I got.

• American Graffiti Soundtrack
• Bach, P.D.Q. – Oratorio “The Seasonings, S. 1/2 tsp., “Unbegun” Symphony, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S. 66
• Beethoven Overtures (a whole slew of them) – Wiener Philharmoniker (Leonard Bernstein)
• Beethoven Symphony No. 5 – NY Philharmonic (Bernstein)
• Beethoven Symphony No. 9 – New York Philharmonic (Bruno Walter)
• Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130, “Grosse Fuge” Op. 133
• Beethoven Septet Op. 20
• Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2, and 4 – Rudolf Serkin, Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
• Brahms Violin Concerto – Issac Stern
• Brahms Double Concerto – Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich
• Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in Bb Maj. Op. 18
• Brahms Viola Sonatas – Michael Tree (vla) Rchard Goode (pno)
• Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – NY Philharmonic (Bernstein)
• Chopin Piano Pieces – Rachmaninoff (pno)
• Debussy String Quartet – Guarneri Quartet
• Dvorak Symphony No. 5 “New World Symphony” – Philadelphia Orchestra (Ormandy)
• Duke Ellington – The Best of
• Ella Fitzgerald – The Irving Berlin Songbook
• Faure Piano Quartet in C Min. Op. 15, String Quartet Op. 121 – Guarneri Quaret, Rubinstein
• Handel Sonatas Op. 1 for Violin and Harpsichord – Josef Suk (vln), Zuzana Ruzickova (pno)
• Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A min. Op. 56 “Scotch”
• Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano, Tzigane, Berceuse – Zino Francesscatti (vln), Artur Balsam (pno)
• Ravel String Quartet – Guarneri Quartet
• Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals – NY Philharmonic (Bernstein)
• Shostakovitch Concerto for Violin – David Oistrakh
• Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 – New York Philharmonic (Bernstein)
• Shostakovitch String Quartets 6 -11 – Borodin Quartet
• Strauss Don Quixote – Cleveland Orchestra (Szell)
• Tchaikovsky Sextet – Guarneri Quartet wit Bris Kroyt & Mischa Schneider

I think I almost doubled my record collection. I got all of that for $25. Not bad eh? I’ve been enjoying the “New World Symphony” while writing this. My house is going to be full of great music for a long while.