Various - Acquisitions 2012/13
Fuchs - Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Nin-Culmell - Tonadas Volumes I-IV
To Fopp at lunchtime and two discs of piano music partaken of...
The first by Robert Fuchs, today almost unknown but well respected in the last quarter of the 19th century...
A protoge of Brahms, he himself taught many better known composers, for example Enescu, Mahler, Wolf, Sibelius, Zemlinsky, Korngold - the list goes on...
Very tuneful...
The second, a disc of 48 pieces by the German born Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, brother of the writer Anais Nin who, let's just say (and by her own account), was a wee bit closer to her dad than she really ought to have been...
This is a beautiful disc of four volumes of short (0:44 - 2:54) "Tonadas" written 1956 to 1961 - versions of traditional Spanish dances and songs "treated" by Herr Nin-Culmell...
Nice (as they used to say of jazz on "The Fast Show")...
This evening, picked up by Ms McKenzie and off we drove down to Mr Apter's for our first run through as a trio of six of Kat's songs (although we will be a quartet, as I am doubling up on guitar and bass for her sessions in early May)...
A good night with some fast accurate work undertaken - much like Tuesday - and things are progressing nicely...
I recorded the evening to give a record to Kat and Keith...
Back home by 9:30 and some TV...
Lights out...
Highlight of the Day : Playing in a group again...
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