Rearranging and Kitty's birthday...

Playlist

Various Artists - Milano Jukebox : Anne's No 1s 1961-2021

David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat

Reicha - Reicha Rediscovered Vol 3

Pleyel - Preussischer Quartette Nos 4-6

Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships

John Cale - The Academy in Peril

Freddie Roach - Good Move

ORA - Upheld By Stillness

Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

Deutsch - Mad Dog; String Quartet No 2; Dr Futurity

Haubenstock-Ramati - Konstellationen Etc

Shakti - Shakti with John McLaughlin

Then The Wild Sea - Then The Wild Sea

Bobby Hutcherson - Components 

Ingrid Laubrock, Mat Maneri, Max Johnson, Tomas Fujiwara - The Prisoner

Gianni Lenoci, Kent Carter, Bill Elgart - Plaything

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Caravan

The Blue Nile - High (Deluxe Version)

Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home

Hainbach - Schwebungssummer

Pleyel - String Quartets Op 2 Nos 4-6

Schnittke - Works for Violin & Piano

Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's New Freedom Suite

Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence

Transatlantic - Forevermore

Edward Spark - The Curse

Roger Waters - Encores

Asylumpeace - Gone To Earth

Charles Tolliver - Connect

Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip

Sylvester - Step II

Peter Serkin - Webern & Takemitsu

Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire; Serenade; Die eiserne Brigade

Schoenberg - Schoenberg: Works For Piano

Adam Lane Trio - Absolute Horizon

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McClure (Edward Spark West End Mix)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Elements

Various Composers - Sonic Arts Network Collection 2: Mixed

Scelsi - Scelsi Revisited

Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony Bianco - Remembrance

Norman Granz - The Complete Norman Granz Jam Sessions

Anemone - A Wing Dissolved in Light

Kronos Quartet - Fifty For the Future

arovane - Wirkung

Various Artists - Kitty Seventeen

Delmé Quartet - Favourite Encores For String Quartet

Brian Eno - On Land

Various Composers - Chamber Music from Baroque to Contemporary 

Up in the dark once again...

Early and snowy...

Today' is niece Kitty's 17th birthday...

So, I made a CD for her re the 18 number one UK singles which have graced the day of her birth and subsequent birthdays - around half are the same as those on Anne's 3CD set from the end of January...

However, having made this...

...Anne decreed, in her capacity as Exec Producer, that it would be foolhardy to drive to Kitty's in the snow - and so presentation will have to wait...

In the garden, a pair of Redwings for, as far as we are aware, the first time...

Apparently, they migrate here from Iceland...

Listening today comprised the remainder of the 100 or so tracks lined up for the next four podcasts, which now include a couple of new downloads from ambient maestro Arovane, a 5.5 hour collection of unreleased string quartet works by the Kronos crew and this cheeky wee number that popped through the door today, to become only the 5th physical acquisition of the year...

More string quartet stuff is on its way though...

At lunchtime, some "Superstore" and an episode from the 1st season of "Brooklyn Nine Nine" enjoyed...

Late afternoon, got round to playing Kitty's CD...

...while she enjoyed a less raucous birthday than usual...

Later on though, chums Ellie and Jen popped round for a celebration...

Baked potato for tea...

...then, with no "Holby City", due to stupid football, upstairs to listen to the newly arrived CD - but the boiler in the attic was running the central heating, which meant too much noise in the back room...

So, I decided to relocate my top notch CD player (Marantz) to the computer room and wire it up to the top notch amp (NAD) and top notch speakers (Mission) there...

Nice...

Then, of course, I had to make a quick foray into the attic, to get the CD player I set up up there a couple of weeks back, to replace the top notch one in the back room...

Done...

Sounds fine...

...as did the string quartets in the front room...

Which were followed by Eno's "On Land" - just the type of music for which a CD player is ideal...

And ended the day with some chamber music...

...while Tweeting pictures of "doubler" Yes LPs - as you do...

...and Tweeted the two latest Random LPs of the Day I played last night by said Yes and Gentle Giant...

Then, on my hardly ever visited Facebook timeline, this coincidentally popped up, from the band, re the very concert I attended (I must have been further back as I paid £1)...

Spooky...

Final play of the day was a piano trio by Wolfgang Rihm - the only one of the twenty eight composers whose work is featured in the tasty 10CD box set of chamber music, who is still alive today...

Final views from the windows onto the lovely snow...

..and the neighbourhood...

...and off to bed with an old podcast in the cans...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : Rearranging and Kitty's birthday...