On the way to the peak of normal and wardrobes...

Playlist
Various - In Car SD Card on Shuffleplay
Bartók - String Quartets Complete (Rubin Quartet)
Various Composers - Eastman American Music Series, Vol. 3
Starer - Excursions For A Pianist
Starer - Solo Piano Music, 1946-1996
Moylan - Origins
Pizzetti - Complete Piano Works
Von Bingen - O Orzchis Ecclesia
Ward - Chamber Music

The room awaited some action this morning...

...while I drove...

...to Airth Castle and a meet and lunch with an interesting German economist...

...and drove back again...

A parcel had arrived...

...containing these bargains...

Meanwhile, action had indeed occurred...

Soon, CBQ central was on the way to the peak of normal and a beer was enjoyed...

...as I partook of some of these new acquisitions...

Bartok complete String Quartets - you can never have too many - Alban Berg Quartett, Emersons and now this...

Piano quintets from the early 1800's - beautiful music from Ries and Limmer...

Four 20th Century American composers - harpsichord, solo piano, soprano & piano from the Eastman School...

First of two discs of solo piano music by Robert Starer, Viennese American who taught at Julliard for 25 yrs...

He moved to NY in '47 after serving in the RAF in WWII....

There was a celebratory recital of his music at Carnegie Hall for his 70th birthday...

This second disc features 50 years of his piano music...

Virginian, William Moylen (b. 1956), three pieces which "cannot be performed live" and were written for living rooms...

A Beethoven contemporary, the Finn (Swede at the time) Crusell - three delightful clarinet quartets...

The earliest composer in my collection, by 320 years, Hildegard von Bingen....

We've been to Bingen...

Some new American Piano Music by Herman, Jaffe, Harbison, Read Thomas, Woolf and Kyr, expertly played by Patricia Goodson...

A 2CD set of compete piano works by Ildebrando Pizzetti who died in 1968 - a Respighi contemporary...

And, finally, four Pieces from 50's & 90's by Robert Ward - tuneful, but still good - including two violin sonatas...

A lot of new music to try and get my ears around...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : New wardrobes, new music...