Crispycat Recordings: The power of music...

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The power of music...

Playlist
Shostakovich - Symphony No 1
Ravel - Piano Concerto in G
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Rihm - Lichtes Spiel
R Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
Dowland - If My Complaints
Gesualdo - Ave Dulcissimo Maria
Paredes - #16 (Speakers) - Fiesta for 2 Channel Tape
Mozart - String Quartet - No 14
The Cure - Discography
King Crimson - A Sailor's Tale (Alt Mix)
The Bad Plus - The Rite of Spring
Asia - Gravitas

Out into an overcast day, soundtracked again by potential late summer listening...

Gulls on the roof opposite...

Nothing to report today - a fruitless and frankly vague search for some Schubert piano sonatas...

Back home and Anne was out with chum Theresa for dinner...

Me and Meg the Black Cat were on our own...

Post another enjoyable episode of "Marvel's Agents of Shield", much of the evening was spent compiling a 2CD collection of highlights from The Cure's discography for chum Spike, requested after he'd heard their track "Fire in Cairo" by chance on BBC 6 - which brought back good memories for him...

Such is the power of music...

In the inbox, correspondence with Capital Model and stand up comedian Jim Park re Jamie - suggesting something musical ought to be organised at some point in our old chum's memory...

I hope it will be so...

Late on, two CDs listened to, two CDs ordered and one track and one album downloaded...

The Bad Plus's take on Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" is here to stream - and mighty impressive it is too - the CD is on its way...

Along with a 3p (yes 3p - ok plus £1.26 postage) disc of a couple of Schubert's piano sonatas, including the one which will be played at this year's EIF...

Also enjoyed this download from DGM of an alternative version of the track "A Sailor's Tale" from King Crimson's 1971 album, "Islands", demonstrating Robert Fripp's experiments re how to tackle what ended up being one of his best ever solos...

Finally, the new Asia album, "Gravitas" was downloaded and enjoyed as I hit the sack...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : New Bad Plus / New Asia....

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