Crispycat Recordings: Eschewing the bang...

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Eschewing the bang...

Playlist
Alice Cooper - Discography
Herman Van Veen - Heute Abend
Arditti String Quartet - Rasmussen/Sorensen
Grand Drive - True Love and High Adventure

Salad at lunchtime, just along from the tower...

In the nearby Hospice Charity shop, a countrified, yet English, album from 2000, purchased for the across the board tariff of just £1.50, eschewing several multi CD collections of banging dance music...

Not like me...

Grand Drive's "True Love and High Adventure" was the album in question...

Back home, Anne was out with Lynn for Zumba and a package awaited...

An amazing bargain from the Naxos Shop via Amazon Marketplace...

For just over two squid, including postage, a 2CD set by the Arditti String Quartet, of works by Danes Karl Aage Rasmussena and Bent Sorensen, written between 1983 and 1988, at which point the recording in question was made for Danish radio, the ink hardly having dried on the latest of the works, Sorensen's "Angels' Music"...

With Anne home, we enjoyed home made carrot and coriander soup...

...and watched "Celebrity Masterchef" before I returned upstairs to enjoy the new acquisitions...

On a bit of a classical frenzy right now, with eight of the ten purchases so far in August being of that genre...

And with the Alban Berg Quartett's box and three samplers of cutting edge avant garde winging their way towards Crispycat Towers as I type...

Back down at ten for "The Culture Show", with modern art expert Alastair Sooke and art dealer and historian Dr Bendor (yes that's his real name) Grosvenor, exploring the vast selection of art on display in Venice during 2013, a Biennale year...

The juxtaposition of Sooke's passion for the multinational contemporary art festival with Grosvenor's cynicism re modern art and his love of the Renaissance geniuses and landscape maestros of the 18th century made for a very interesting but too short programme...

It was both entertaining and, at times, enlightening, to see them try to win each other over to the merits of their particular selections...

Me? I liked it all...

Highlight of the Day : New quartets...

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