What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.VIII)

Something to go with Mother's Day.

A really enjoyable CD, the best SBP so far. This deserves a 5.1 mix (so  much going on) & vinyl release.

LP5 of this box set:

Having fun testing cables, while listening to music (no test discs in this house). What better music to do so than a combination of voices, organ, and small orchestra, beautifully recorded?

Cheers,

EJ

I keep playing the first track over and over - Hollow Eyes, the beautifully haunting title track from the outstanding BBC4 program Danish/Swedish series, The Bridge.

Remember when you were young; you shone like the...

My first PT CD getting a springtime airing -  "cześć" .

I bought In Absentia on vinyl previously, but didn't get it .

As Joleon Lescott once said, "We all make Mistakes"

We just used to like... do our own thing.

Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major K.370

Haydn String Trio in G makor op.53 no.1

Krommer Oboe Quartet no.1 in C major

Boccherini String Trio in A major op.14 no.3

The Cummings String Trio

Diana Cumings violin

Luciano Iorio viola

Rohan de Saram cello

with...

Sarah Francis oboe

Recordings from Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, London

on 22nd - 24th October 1980

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Sweet spot of the afternoon, 15 yards behind the speakers, near the bird feeder, in a sunny patch of the back yard. Opened wide windows allowing Tatiana Nikolayeva to share her Art of Fugue with the finches and the blue jays.

Some soothing sounds before bedtime.

Love this track - 'SW9' - still available as a free d/l from XLR8R, and it didn't even make the cut for the above album, Fort Romeau's Kingdoms, on 100% Silk.

File under late-night, hypnotic, deep house.

Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931)

The Canticle Of The Sun
Conductor/cello/percussion Mstislav Rostropovich

Music for flute, strings and percussion

Conductor Ryusuke Numajiri

London Symphony Orchestra

Audio CD
EMI Classics @ 2001

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Interesting Interview of Tatiana:

Lisa Hannigan - Passenger