Playlist
Brahms - Cello Sonatas
Bruckner - Symphony #4 "Romantic"
Schubert - : String Quartets
Sibelius - Violin Concerto In D Minor, Op. 47 (Original & Final Versions)
Dvořák - Stabat Mater, Legenden
Bach, J S - Mass In B Minor
Various Artists - American Anthems
Elisa La Marca - The Queenes Maskes. A Varietie of Lute Music from the Early English Court
The Marian Consort - Una poesia muta. Art in Early Cinquecento Venice
Błoto - Grzybnia
Brown Spirits - Solitary Transmissions
Zebulon Pike - Nostalgia for the Unreal
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
Joachim Spieth & Warmth - Fragments
Carl Allen - Tippin'
Brown Spirits - Cosmic Seeds
Various Artists - Selected Signs, I - An ECM Anthology
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Berlin Baritone
ADHD - 9
Lovely sky this morning, treated, to make it even lovelier...
Slept in, for once in a while...
Past January's half way point now...
Even better skies...
Also treated...
The view from the office...
Collected the ten CDs from the podcast...
...for tomorrow's #CDFriday....
At 10:30 or so, over to Betty's, Bob's mum's, for coffee, cake and a good chat...
Good to find an "old" person who can actually have a cogent conversation...
Enjoyable...
Leaving the car, a bus to Haymarket and to La Casa for 12:30...
Anne looking resplendent in her new tank top...
Me, freshly shaven...
My order turned out to be exactly the same as last time...
Anne went for the meatballs to start...
Predictable King Prawn Linguini for your correspondent...
Anne opting for the Risotto...
Yum...
Reasonably leisurely...
Then, a bus to the town centre and into the National Gallery, using our "Friends" cards to gain access to the "Dürer to Van Dyck : Drawings from Chatsworth House" exhibition...
"A spectacular group of some 50 Flemish, Dutch, Early Netherlandish, and German drawings and watercolours, spanning from about 1500 to 1700, exhibited in Scotland for the first time.
They have been selected from the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, one of the most significant collections of art and artefacts anywhere in the world, and cared for by the Chatsworth House Trust charity.
This exhibition is exclusive to the National Galleries of Scotland and will not travel elsewhere. Enjoy stunning drawings by, among others, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, alongside no less than eleven works by Anthony van Dyck, and nine by Rembrandt."
Further details here (until they aren't)...
Just two rooms but much better than I'd anticipated...
I'll let the pictures do the talking...
Room I...
Probably our favourite...
We've been in this square in Linz - there was no execution taking place when we were though...
Room II...
Bring me the head of John the Baptist...
I...
II...
Rubens and Van Dyck, Anthony, not Dick, though...
Rembrandt...
This was talked about in our talk a couple of weeks back (although the picture mainly discussed was nowhere to be seen)...
Some Scottish colourists were found to be less impressive...
...although I liked these collages, by Alfons Bytautas...
A bus back to the car....
And home...
Tonight, some reading as I finally finished off this book...
Interesting...
An invention, ongoing theft, and hubris from the richest man in the music business, destroyed it for artists...
Highlight of the Day : Out and about...
Today's New Music:-
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