Archive for September, 2009
Listening In: Under the House
Another day of heavy-duty reading. Today it’s been Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (conclusion), Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and Jack Kerouac’s Wake Up. However, I got my ears around a fair amount of stuff this evening:
Public Image Ltd. – Flowers of Romance (again)
John Tavener – Ex Maria Virgine
Sunn 0))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
The Von Bondies [...]Listening In: You wanted chocolates instead
Another day of limited listening – I’ve only had a few things on today, as I’ve been immersed in reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Red Harvest and Walpole’s very silly gothic romance The Castle of Otranto. So, the only sounds to enter my lug-holes today have been:
Cecilia Bartoli – The Salieri Album
Tom Johnson – An Hour [...]Listening In: Rach 2 etc
Another day’s holiday from the chocolate teapot factory, another day of reading. Hence, not so much listening.
Rachmaninov – Symphony no. 2 (Edward Downes) – I’m not entirely sure how this ended up on my iPod, especially as I don’t own it on CD. After looking for the Nikolai Lugansky recordings of the concerti and failing [...]
Listening In: The liar’s on the altar
A weekend of no updates. Well, some lapses were, I suppose, inevitable. And, of course, I haven’t quite the detailed recollection I’d hope for. But still. Much of the weekend’s listening was the BBC Music Magazine cover disc – Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture and the first piano concerto. I rather like both readings, but contacts [...]