Chosen to be chucked...

Playlist

Concerto Köln - Concerto Köln 10CD Box Set

Various Composers - Music From The Era of Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets

Victoria de los Angeles - The Fabulous Victoria De Los Angeles

Gilbert & Sullivan - Operettas

Bach, J S - Glenn Gould Plays Bach

Chopin - The Complete Chopin Edition - 200th Anniversary

Schubert - Piano Sonatas

Various Composers - The Complete Classical Collection Vol 2

Haydn - The Complete String Quartets Played on Period Instruments

Various Composers - 20th Century Italian Piano Music

Various Composers - Musik in alten Städten & Residenzen

Various - The Ultimate Jamaican Trojan Box Set

Camille O'Sullivan - Changeling

Alexandre Tharaud - Le Poète Du Piano

Rihm - Grat / Edge

Rihm - Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)

Noto/Sakamoto - Utp_ (Remaster)

Ensemble Modern - they are - Das Internationale Kompositionsseminar

A Bu - Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories

Djordjević - The Death of the Star-Knower

Spahlinger - Works for Ensemble

Andre - Riss

Soft Machine - New Cross Inn, London 2023-02-03

Soft Machine - The Green Hotel, Kinross 2023-02-16

Streich - Augenlider

Lachenmann - Concertini & Kontrakadenz

Asasello Quartett - Insights To-Morrow

Lilienstern - Couture

Antheil - Fighting The Waves

Dufourt - Les Hivers

Ensemble Modern - Beschenkt

Zimmermann - Recomposed, Vol. 1

Zimmermann - Recomposed, Vol. 2

Zimmermann - Recomposed, Vol. 3

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-17 Demos

Weinberg - Symphony No. 17, Op. 137 "Memory" & Suite for Orchestra

Molter - Orchestral Works Vol 1

Weinberg - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7

Unexpected sleep in today...

1st task of the day, upon rising, was to update my playlist of classical music box sets, adding those acquired in the last 18 months!

Then, with that done, next was to ascertain and add publishing dates for quite a few of them, for which said dates were missing...

Some work with the lighting in the kitchen...

...then Anne set about clearing stuff out...

Let today be known as the day the "new kitchen" project was commenced...

And let's see how long it takes...

Meanwhile, upstairs, I was moving around my paintings, so that the toppermost boxes of classical CDs could be pushed back fully onto the wall...

Done...

And, downstairs, stuff had been chosen to be chucked...

The window looked strange without the blind...

In the evening, I was, once again, (successfully) put in charge of the Baked Potatoes...

This week's "Vera" - the 50th ever and last in the series - was watched and enjoyed and 140 was scored on "University Challenge", as Durham thrashed the hapless Bangor...

Late on a Tweet asked, if, in the future, you could only listen to the symphonies of five composers, which would you choose?

AS ever, I went for quantity but, to be fair, not over quality...

I chose, in chronological order of birth:-

Johann Melchior Molter (c140)

Franz Joseph Haydn (104)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (c46)

Alan Hovhaness (66)

Leif Selim Segerstam (>350)

Those five would leave me with around 700 symphonies to delve into...

Before researching which composer has written the most symphonies, I must confess to never having heard of Segerstam - I do now have an LP to put into the collection tomorrow though...

Elsewhere today, much new tuneless contemporary classical music was downloaded and, late on, a veritable swathe of Weinberg symphonies joined the fray...

An e-mail from Ryan Air re our planned trip to Nantes lined itself up to ruin a goodly part of my day tomorrow, as did my, on retiring to bed, seemingly unable to accept a load of Weinberg symphonies iPhone...

But that's for another day...

Lights out...

Highlight of the day : Changing things and new music...

Today's new music:-