Saturday, June 27, 2009

Back in the game...

Playlist
Dar Williams – Various Tracks
Dream Theater – Train of Thought
Moby – Play/18/Hotel
Jean-Yves Thibaudet – Aria : Opera Without Words
Cecilia Bartoli – Maria
Rachmaninov – Aleko
Gabriela Montero – Baroque
Dream Theater – Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Up early – Anne dead to the world...

Thinking about more MP3 CDs for the car – went through my “Red Book of CDs I Own” and listed my top 100 artists – ended up with a list of 253...

Won an auction on e-bay last night for the latest Dar Williams album – coming from the USA so a bit of a wait for that to arrive...

Out and down to the bus and along to the podiatrist before heading into town...

The arm was painful just walking along but I am determined to return to the offices of “The Man” on Monday...

At HMV, a sale – nothing enticed – noted they do indeed still have Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits at just £4 – still too dear for me...

Along to FOPP – some good new bargains – I had discs by Can, Wire, Pet Shop Boys, We Are Scientist, Montreal, Blondie etc etc in my hand but put them all back save last year’s Moby album, “Last Night”...

Upstairs some classical bargains – I wisely forewent two Helene Grimaud discs (checked back home I have them already) but picked up some interesting stuff...

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (opera arias transcribed for solo piano), Cecilia Bartoli (repertoire of the world’s first female superstar, Maria Malibran from the early 19th Century) and Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero (improvisations based on baroque masters such as Handel, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Scarlatti and Albinoni)...

Also a 3CD set of Rachmaninov’s operas for just a quid and a 2CD set of Schubert’s Trios (having checked the collection, I will return for the double disc of Schubert’s late piano sonatas by Alfred Brendel – thought I had it already)...

Finally back downstairs and partook of the new 3CD set from Dream Theater – rockin’ – preferred to have it today rather than pay a couple of quid less on Amazon and have to wait until midweek...


£82 worth of CDs for £29 – only the Dream Theater was cheaper on Amazon...

Bus home through the rain, stopping off on the way for some tasty rye soda bread for lunch, which was enjoyed back home with the “finally up at midday” Exec Producer....


Snoozed through tennis whilst listening to the new discs – Dream Theater certainly blasted away the cobwebs...

A shared taken away curry nourished while we watched the taped-due-to Andy-Murray-playing –tennis last episode of “Robin Hood” – bit of a tearjerker – don’t know how they expect to continue this next year without Hood – are they planning a “Taggart” scenario?

“Michael McIntyre” and “Law & Order” also entertained then it was lights out time - without having had a chance to sample the Moby or Schubert discs...

Highlight of the Day : New Dream Theater...

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