Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anthology 1977-2007
Purcell - Dido & Aeneas
Various – Last 100 Cds
King Crimson – 21st Century Guide (2x4CD)
New Order – Republic
Stamitz – Symphonies Vol 2
New Order – Waiting For the Sirens’ Call
Corelli – 12 Concerti Grossi
Reading List
Deborah Curtis - Touching From A Distance
Re-listened to the proposed Anthology - still not sure about this project...
Collated all the recording dates for "Ersatzreal" and started working on the cover...
Breakfast at home and then out shopping...
Sorted out the 100 odd CDs we carry around in the car - mostly compilations of one sort or another I've burned at one time or another for some forgotten reason (or another)...
In the afternoon, read the entire Joy Division book I bought yesterday - the one on which the film "Control" is based - an excellent quick read and gets across much better than the film just how humdrum life for the band was and gives a greater insight into the self-destructive personality of Ian Curtis...
Gave James Jamieson a call re arrangements for a performance we're doing tomorrow night - a "megamike" featuring around 40 artists playing one song each...
Then round to Anne’s mums to pick everyone up before we drove to the hotel where nephew Craig has just started working to subsidise his University lifestyle...
The plan was to surprise him with a birthday cake - of course he was far too busy (and still too hungover I might add) to particpate to any great degree...
Then to Anne's mum's for tea before I headed off for my last but one (Fireworks next Sunday) Festival evening....
An excellent double bill of opera...
First up was "Dido & Aeneas" by Henry Purcell followed by Antonio Salieri's comic opera, "Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole"...
I spotted Anne's cousin Alison playing the bassoon in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra...
Purcell's opera is probably the most famous early opera to be written in English...
"A powerhouse of emotion, it follows the doomed love affair between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan prince Aeneas."
Great...
"Prima la musica, poi le parole" is...
"a comic opera of verve and effervescence in which a musician and a poet argue about the relative importance of their work in the creation of a new opera."
Yowsa....
And of course, once again, home in time for "Match of the Day"
Highlight of the Day : Opera
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