Sunday 28 February 2010

Sunday 28th February 2010

At home:
Khachaturian - Suites: Spartacus, Masquerade, Gayaneh
Shostakovich - Symphony No.7 "Leningrad"

That was all.

Saturday 27th February 2010

In the car:
Shostakovich - Symphony No.10, First Movement

That was all - much of the day was spent in front of the TV or asleep!

Friday 26 February 2010

Friday 26th February 2010

At home:
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

In the car:
Shostakovich - String Quartet No.8
Shostakovich - Symphony No.8

At home:
Khachaturian - Suites: Spartacus, Masquerade, Gayaneh

The Khachaturian was the result of hearing the waltz from Masquerade during an Olympics figure skating short programme!

Thursday 25th February 2010

In the car:
Smetana - String Quartets No.s 1&2

That was it!

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Wednesday 24th February 2010

In the car:
Smetana - Ma Vlast
Brahms - String Sextets
Bruckner - Symphony No.7

At home:
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol

At a concert in the evening:
Matthew King - Totentango
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E Minor
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

Absolutely fabulous concert - I swear there were witches flying round the Barbican Hall on their broomsticks during the last movement of the Berlioz!!

Tuesday 23rd February 2010

In the car:
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites 1&2

That was all.

Monday 22nd February 2010

In the car:
Dvorak - String Quartet No.9 (end)

At home:
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture
Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain
Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol

This last selection was repeated several times.

Sunday 21st February 2010

At home:
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 140-155

That was all.

Saturday 20th February 2010

At home:
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 126-139

That was all.

Friday 19th February 2010

In the car:
Dvorak - String Quartet No.9 (start)

At home:
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 126-139

That was all.

Thursday 18th February 2010

In the car:
Dvorak - String Quartet No.8 (end)

At home:
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 94-125

That was all.

Wednesday 17th February 2010

In the car:
Dvorak - String Quartet No.8 (start)

At home:
Kasabian - Fire (on YouTube, from the Brits)
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 94-112

That was it.

Tuesday 16th February 2010

In the car:
Dvorak - String Quartet No.7

At home:
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade

That was all.

Monday 15th February 2010

In the car on the way to the psychiatrist's:
Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre
Dvorak - String Quartet No.6

At home:
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade

Well, it was an improvement on the day before!

Sunday 14th February 2010

I didn't listen to any music at all. This very rarely happens, but I was in a terrible state, just clinging on to sanity, and just the effort of putting a CD into the player would have been too much. A black day indeed.

Saturday 13th February 2010

In the car:
Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony

At home:
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 204a-216

That was all.

Friday 12th February 2010

In the car while going for a drive first to the seaside and then on a pilgrimage to a special place in the morning:
Beethoven - Piano Concertos No.s 2-5
Schubert - Symphonies 4-9

In the car while driving home:
Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.1
Mendelssohn - Overtures: Hebrides, Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage, Fair Melusine, Midsummer Night's Dream
Brahms - Piano Concertos No.s 1 & 2

That was all.

Thursday 11th February 2010

In the car for a short trip in the morning:
Beethoven - Piano Trio No.1

At home:
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Scarlatti - Sonatas Kk 204a-216

In the car for a drive north:
Haydn - Symphonies No.s 101-104
Schubert - Impromptus
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.1

That was it.

Monday 22 February 2010

Wednesday 10th February 2010

For a short trip in the car:
Beethoven - Apassionata Sonata (part)

That was it.

Tuesday 9th February 2010

In the car on the way to a concert:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Pendulum - In Silico
Reverend & The Makers - A French Kiss in the Chaos
Nirvana - Nirvana

At the concert (LSO, Maria Joao Pires, John Eliot Gardiner):
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2
Scarlatti - Sonata Kk208 (Encore)
Beethoven - Symphony No.6

On the way home in the car:
Beethoven - Piano Trios Op.1, No.s 1-3
Beethoven - Apassionata Sonata

That was it! Very Beethoven day. Absolutely superb concert.

Thursday 11 February 2010

Monday 8th February 2010

In the car:
The Dead Weather - Horehound (end)

At home:
Mendelssohn - Octet
Beethoven - Septet

That was all.

Monday 8 February 2010

Sunday 7th February 2010

Just, for a short trip in the car:
The Dead Weather - Horehound (beginning)

I really am not doing very well with the music at the moment - I'm so sorry dear Ears followers. I'll try and improve. My mind has been a bit "elsewhere" recently.

Saturday 6th February 2010

In the car on the way to the supermarket:
Muse - The Resistance

At home:
Bach - Violin Concertos BWV1041-1043

That was all.

Friday 5th February 2010

In the car, a bit of:
Muse - The Resistance

At home:
Muse - The Resistance

That was it!

Thursday 4th February 2010

A truly black day, but musically a success in the end.

In the car, on the way to and from a gig:
Radiohead - The Best Of
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco

At the gig, sets by:
To The Moon
Jessie Grace
Inlight

Fabulous, all three of them. mJ did a solo set since his band partner wasn't around. Jessie was fab, and ended her set with fabulous guitar glissandi! Inlight are just really really cool, and they played the Wonderspouse's choice of song to start their set (Disappear) and my choice to end (Icarus).

Live noisy music is balm to a troubled soul. Watching Jonny's fingers on the bass was good therapy for me after the blackest of days.

Wednesday 3rd February 2010

In the car, bits of:
Nirvana - Nirvana

At home:
Beethoven - Spring and Kreutzer Sonatas

That was it.

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Tuesday 2nd February 2010

In the car, bits of:
Nirvana - Nirvana

At home:
Bach - Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043
Beethoven - Violin Concerto

That was all!

Monday 1st February 2010

In the car for several short trips:
Reverend and The Makers - A French Kiss in the Chaos

At home:
Schubert - Piano Sonatas D959, D784, D157
Bach - Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043

That was all!