“You Haunt Me pt 2” from “Callingstill” (1997)
Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Callingstill
And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs
Various – Zunior Compilation 6.14
Various – Zunior Compilation 6.15
Athlete – Beyond the Neighbourhood
Bella – String Quartet & String Quintet
Duke Ellington – Money Jungle
Grechaninov – String Quartets
Michiko Kamiya – Violin Recital
Beethoven – Cello Sonatas
Young the Giant – Young the Giant
Beethoven – Piano Sonatas
Grieg – Lyric Pieces
Chopin – Piano Sonatas
Up around 6 and to the PC...
My latest idea – to add a CBQ track of the day to each entry for 2012 – and so, the first 13 tracks from the 1997 triple CD set, “Callingstill” were added (the 14th track is above)...
A nip to PC world for ink and blank CDs to keep stocks up...
Into town with Anne, dropping her off and being driven to distraction by the road works re the billion pound replacement for the number 22 bus that is the “Edinburgh Tram” (just the one)...
I wonder if they are, this time, actually laying some track or are they just putting more retailers out of business?
Finally got parked and walked to George Street to meet with Anne again, post her eye check up and, for the first time this year, with Dr Prog...
To Café Centro for coffee etc...
Porridge for the, quite literally, big man, tasty looking tasty things for my companions...
Then, Dr Prog went a bit OTT on the cake front...
Good chat re football and progressive rock was undertaken and enjoyed by the trio of chums...
Anne bade us adieu and returned home to prep for this afternoon’s 5-2 thrashing (despite having a man sent off in the first half) by Hearts of CBQ’s home town team St Mirren (Queens held league leaders Ross County to a 0-0 draw in Dumfries but remain bottom)...
Meanwhile, Dr Prog and I perused the latest wares in Fopp...
I selected some classical stuff...
I am a sucker for string quartets and partook of discs by, unknown before today to me, composers Bella and Grechaninov...
A 2CD violin recital by Japanese winner of a Hanover International Violin competition, Michiko Kamiya and a 2CD set of Beethoven’s cello sonatas also joined the large amount of discs in the back room at Crispycat Towers...
Added to this was my first ever Duke Ellington disc, from 1962 with Charlie Mingus and Max Roach, “Money Jungle”, a track from which recently impressed on the “50 Best Blue Note” box set purchased just before Xmas...
Back to George Street and to the Wham Church (St Andrew’s & St George’s) as opposed to the Beatles Church on York Place (St Paul’s & St George’s) for a piano recital by Mr Tom Poster...
A quite superb way to spend two hours on a Saturday afternoon – the beautiful Sgambati transcription of the theme from Gluck’s “Orfeo and Euridice” kicked off the set, followed by 9 miniatures, five by Kurtag and one each by four who influenced said Kurtag pieces, Bartok, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Kabelevsky...
The first half was rounded off by Beethoven’s late sonata in E Major, Opus 109, while the second half comprised Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Opus 43 and Chopin’s Sonata in B Flat Minor, Opus 35, the one with the famous Death March...
Played in a good space...
Brilliant...
I did not nod off...
A bus home to listen to and rip the new acquisitions and await Annie’s return...
The evening was spent catching up on stuff recorded over Xmas, Eddie Izzard in “The Lost Christmas” and the animated film “Monsters v Aliens” and rounded off with “Live at the Apollo” and “Match of the Day” which, for me, was soundtracked by the piano pieces from earlier today...
Lights out on a good Saturday, what would have been my dear old dad’s 82nd birthday and the 10th anniversary of the slipping away of our much loved and much missed Crispy the Kitten – good that we now have the lovely wee Meg the Black Cat...
Highlight of the Day : Piano recital...
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