Coppelia is live streaming from Covent Garden tonight, at cinemas all over the UK. Saw it last week and is fabulous and great fun.
Saw a new movie of Romeo & Juliet last night. Also excellent, and Q&A after with leading cast and crew. Itâs on the TV on New Yearâs Day.
Lots of good stuff at Wigmore in the summer season.
Just booked for a nice concert - Concentus Musicus Wien, 6/2/20.
The SACD âRachmaninov - The Isle of the Deadâ from 2012
Itâs SUPER so listen to it if you havenât.
Itâs this years best âCDâ for me.
âYears Best CDâ, thanks for your recommendation. I will listen.
Chas
Possibly the greatest of the early Mahler recordings, plus Janet Bakerâs Ruckert Leider on side 4 of the box set.
Gramophone Awards 2019: Recording of the Year - Winner. 24/96 download.
Itâs long been my favorite performance of No.5 .
I donât like that many of the LSO recordings soundwiseâŚnot always transparentâŚbut this oneâs gorgeous and with near perfect tonality (in my room/setup).
Book 1 was most enjoyable, all 4 hours of it, this is 6 hours. The bass viol is much more enjoyable than hours of violin partitas. Didnât do things by halves, including having 19 children. Poor Mrs Marais.
A rarity, but I think I have a copy at the end of the garden.
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735-1792)
The opening quartet is rather blah but the remaining 4 are sheer delight and beautifully performed (HIP) and recorded.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I cannot find an emoji which adequately expresses extreme envy. Unfortunately my âman-fluâ took a turn for the worse, and I could attend neither quiz nor concert.