Various - Rock & Pop Albums of the Year 1959-2012
Various - Rock & Pop 2013 Acquisitions
Robert Miller - Sound Forms for Piano
Gubailudina - Piano Works
Various Composers - Italian Piano Music 1935-1990
More thunder and lightning today...
Reduced to taking pictures of my cash...
Later, the sun was out again...
...and, after Anne's return from Zumba and some very tasty salad, we enjoyed a BBC documentary on the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus...
AKA Caligula...
In much the same way as Dr Phillipa Gregory, in her recent documentary and in the current BBC adaptation of her novels, "The White Queen", has sought to right some of the post death propaganda wrongs against Richard III, so Dr Mary Beard, in this programme, attempted to cast Caligula in a slightly better light than that to which we are use to seeing him...
Of course, personally, having watched "I Claudius" at seventeen and having been fed the history of the early Roman emperors by Robert Graves, who channelled Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius, I remained kind of sceptical...
Interesting nonetheless...
Late on, Gubaidulina's weird and wonderful piano concerto entertained as I ordered some more (frankly unnecessary) discs by yesterday's faves, the Huelgas Ensemble...
Lights out - with Scelsi on the cans...
Highlight of the Day : Caligula's story, flaws and all...
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