'Listening' Category
Listening In: Don’t care if it’s legal
A slightly less manic day at the chocolate teapot factory heralded the nourishing of the lugholes with the following: Haydn etc. – Trumpet Concertos – Alison Balsom Republica – Republica The Jesus & Mary Chain – Automatic Jim Reid – Dead End Kids single The Libertines – The Libertines The Manhattan Love Suicides – Burnt [...]
Listening In: “That’ll wake the ladies!”
There has been much mayhem at the chocolate teapot factory today, so I haven’t been nourishing my lug-holes as well as I might. I do, however, feel it necessary to state that I listened to something by Muse last night. It was rotten. In contrast, what I did listen to today was, on the whole, [...]
Listening In: No-one loves you when you’ve got no shoes
It’s been a day of troubleshooting at the chocolate teapot factory, so I’ve had the headphones clamped to my head all day, pumping out the following: Leadbelly – King of the Blues (compilation) The Sunday Reeds – Drowning In History Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Ashkenazy, Haitink) Brahms – Symphony no. 2 (Abbado, Berlin [...]
Listening In: Catching up
A whole 5 days since my last post. Shameful. I will rush out into the garden and flagellate myself shortly. However, first of all, it remains for me to document what I’ve been listening to this week. In my defense, the internet has been broken at home and I’ve been too busy at the chocolate [...]
Listening In: Black Angel’s Death Song
Back to the chocolate teapot factory today, whereupon I discovered that an awful lot of teapot lids had gone astray while I was on holiday. To soothe my poor frayed nerves, I listened to some thoroughly traumatic music: Stefan Wolpe – String Quartet Earle Brown – String Quartet (1965) Cage – String Quartet in Four [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Listening In: All my friends are boppin’ the blues…
Today I grabbed a 2CD compilation that I haven’t listened to for years for this morning’s listening on the way to the chocolate teapot factory – The Very Best of Sun Rockabilly, which features gems by the likes of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, early Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, plus many long-forgotten one-not-quite-hit wonders [...]