Sunday 31 January 2010

Sunday 31st January 2010

At home:
Mozart - Sonata for 2 pianos K448
Schubert - Fantasia for piano 4 hands D940
Mozart - Fantasia for mechanical organ K608
Mozart - Andante & Variations K501
Mozart - Concerto for 2 pianos K365
Mozart - Concerto for 3 pianos K242

That was all!

Saturday 30th January 2010

At home:
Bach - Concertos for 3 & 4 Harpsichords BWV 1063-1065
Bach - Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052-3 & 1055-6

That was all!

Friday 29th January 2010

In the car on the way to and from the psychiatrist:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Pendulum - In Silico

At home:
Bach - Single & Double Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043

That was all!

Thursday 28th January 2010

In the car for a short trip:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (part)

At home:
Beethoven - Quintet in Eb for Piano & Wind Op.16
Mozart - Quintet in Eb for Piano & Wind K452
Beethoven - Violin Concerto

That was all!

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Wednesday 27th January 2010

In the car on the way to a psychologist appointment:
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

At home, following a Spotify link from facebook:
Mozart - Quintet in Eb for Piano & Wind K452 (Hough, Berlin Phil Winds)
Mozart - Adagio & Allegro K594 arranged for Winds

Then, having looked out my CD:
Beethoven - Quintet in Eb for Piano & Wind Op.16
Mozart - Quintet in Eb for Piano & Wind K452 (Perlemuter, Albion Ensemble)

That was it.

Tuesday 26th January 2010

A rather bad day.

For one short car journey, the end of:
Muse - The Resistance

In the doctor's surgery waiting room:
Some brass band music (unidentified)

At home:
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

That was all.

Monday 25th January 2010

In the car, on the way and back from meeting a friend:
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Muse - The Resistance

At home:
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Beethoven - Triple Concerto
Brahms - Double Concerto
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Schumann - Piano Concerto

That was all!

Sunday 24 January 2010

Sunday 24th January 2010

A trying morning was soothed with:
Elgar - Introduction & Allegro, Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on Greensleeves, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

A short trip in the car had the end of:
Radiohead - The Best Of

At home, following a Spotify link tweeted by @iamamro:
Morrissey - Suedehead: The Best Of Morrissey

Then:
Radiohead - The Bends
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

That was all!

Saturday 23 January 2010

Saturday 23rd January 2010

The day started with:
Sibelius - Symphony No.6

And ended with:
Britten - Peter Grimes

Both of these as a result of tweets - Sibelius with @Tom_Godell and Britten with @greendane!

Friday 22nd January 2010

The Tchaikovsky phase continued:
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.2, Francesca da Rimini, Symphony No.3, Marche Slave

In the car today:
Nirvana - Nirvana (end of)
Radiohead - Best of

That was all!

Thursday 21st January 2010

In the car for a short trip, a bit more:
Nirvana - Nirvana

At home:
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4, Fatum, Francesca da Rimini, Symphony No.2

That was all!

Wednesday 20th January 2010

A bit more music today. In the car for a short trip, part of:
Nirvana - Nirvana

At home:
Schubert - Trout Quintet, Quartet Death & The Maiden
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances Opp 46 & 72
Schoenberg - Verklaerte Nacht, Variations Op.31

That was it!

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Tuesday 19th January 2010

A very lean day, just:
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Yes, really. And that wasn't until the evening. Very strange sort of a day.

Monday 18th January 2010

At home today:
Bach - Goldberg Variations
Britten - Death in Venice

That was all.

Sunday 17th January 2010

We finally got out of the house for a decent amount of time in the car and listened to:
Pendulum - In Silico
Reverend & The Makers - French Kiss in the Chaos
Nirvana - Nirvana (beginning)

At home:
Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony
Beethoven - Symphony No.5, Symphony No.7

That was all!

Saturday 16 January 2010

Saturday 16th January 2010

The morning started with a song on Radio Shropshire:
Stereophonics - Handbags and Gladrags

Then:
Sibelius - Symphony No.2, Symphony No.3

Later:
Blur - Midlife

That was it!

Friday 15th January 2010

Again, not much music today, I spent a lot of the day asleep in front of the TV I'm afraid, so just:
Beethoven - Symphony No.5 and Symphony No.7

What I will say is that the disc of these two symphonies is Carlos Kleiber with the Vienna Phil (recording from 1975/76 on DG) and I think it's absolutely one of the most fantastic discs ever. Brilliant brilliant brilliant!

Thursday 14th January 2010

At home:
Beethoven - String Quartets Op.74 and Op.132
Franck - Symphony in D minor, Symphonic Variations
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Beethoven - Symphony No.5 and Symphony No.7

That was all.

Thursday 14 January 2010

Wednesday 13th January 2010

Another day with just one disc:
Beethoven - String Quartets Op.74 and Op.132

That was it!

Tuesday 12th January 2010

Just one disc today, on repeat:
Brahms - Cello Sonatas 1 & 2

That was it!

Monday 11th January 2010

At home in the morning:
Beethoven - String Quartets Op.59, No.3 and Op.131

In the afternoon in the Doctor's waiting room:
Strange tinkly palm court then music box type music
Brass band music, including Men of Harlech & Rule Britannia

The Wonderspouse, who accompanied me to the surgery commented that the strange tinkly music was actually his equivalent of torture, and kept me amused while waiting by saying "Yes, yes, I'll tell you anything, just turn it off". Once the brass band started up he said it sounded like a parade for Lenin or something. I said I didn't think Lenin was Welsh.

By the time I went into the surgery I was mildly hysterical, even though going to seek help for depression. We generally deal with such things using humour here, and the rather terrible music provided the perfect stimulus for crazy conversation!

Sunday 10th January 2010

I was feeling pretty shocking so needed something fairly rough to listen to:
The Libertines - The Best Of

Then later, as I cheered up a very tiny bit:
Radiohead - The Bends

The Bends is my favourite Radiohead album currently.

Saturday 9th January 2010

Today we managed to get out in the car for a short trip to a nearby town. While driving very slowly and carefully we listened to:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

At home, prompted by a conversation with @5357311 I listened on Spotify to:
Carter - Piano Music (see here for Spotify link or here for other details)

Later that evening:
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

That was it. I had the Carter several times. Good stuff!

Sunday 10 January 2010

Friday 8th January 2010

I was really getting cabin fever, and all that I listened to, on repeat, was:
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Black seemed like a much better idea than the unrelenting whiteness outside!

Thursday 7th January 2010

The second day of being snowed in was a Beethoven day:
Beethoven - String Quartets Op.18, No.1 and Op.59, No.1
Beethoven - Symphony No.3 "Eroica", Grosse Fuge

That was it!

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Wednesday 6th January 2010

Not a huge amount of music today owing to having rolling news about snow as the soundtrack for the day. However, did listen to:
Dvorak - Terzettos for 2 violins & viola
Dvorak - Bagatelles for 2 violins, cello & harmonium

That was all!

Tuesday 5th January 2010

In the car on the ways to and from work:
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Muse - The Resistance
The Dead Weather - Horehound

Once I got home:
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Kills - No Wow
The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side

I think I must have been in an Alison Mosshart kind of mood!

Monday 4 January 2010

Monday 4th January 2010

In the car for a short trip, part of:
Calvin Harris - I created Disco

On repeat all day at home:
Shostakovich - Violin Sonata, Viola Sonata

In the evening changed to:
Beethoven - Piano Concertos No.2 and No.4

Probably it for the night!

Sunday 3rd January 2010

In the morning:
Beethoven - Violin Concerto

In the afternoon:
Shostakovich - Violin Sonata, Viola Sonata

That was all.

Saturday 2nd January 2010

Just one work today, in its entirety:

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

That was quite enough!

Saturday 2 January 2010

Friday 1st January 2010

The ears started the New Year in traditional style with the second part of the New Year's Day concert from Vienna:

Otto Nicolai: Ouvertüre zu „Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"
Johann Strauß: Wiener Bonbons. Walzer, op. 307
Johann Strauß: Champagner-Polka, op. 211
Johann Strauß: Ein Herz, ein Sinn. Polka mazur, op. 323
Johann Strauß Vater: Der Carneval in Paris
Jacques Offenbach: Ouvertüre zu „Die Rheinnixen"
Eduard Strauß: Quadrille Schöne Helena
Johann Strauß: Morgenblätter. Walzer, op. 279
Hans Christian Lumbye: Champagner-Galopp
Plus, of course, various encores!

The rest of the day was spent listening to:
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Schumann - Piano Concerto
Schumann - Papillons

Happy 2010 everybody!