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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C, Op.32/1
Steven Osborne, piano

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony No.4 in G, Wq.183
Yoon K. Lee/Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (orch. Alexander Gauk): The Seasons, Op.37
Constantine Orbelian/Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D, Op.7/6
Simon Standage/Collegium Musicum 90; Anthony Robson, oboe

Manuel de Falla: Suite of Popular Spanish Songs: Polo
Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E-flat, Op.55 "Eroica"
Mikhail Pletnev/Russian National Orchestra


The Albinoni was sort of a chore to play for me years ago, but the Beethoven was always uplifting. Some symphonic pieces were just work for me, requiring concentration, but Beethoven's 3rd was joyous, always a wonderful experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AQ4ATAvAcU

A Momentary Lapse of Reason - "Pink Floyd"

Never has an album been so appropriately named - unintentionally, of course; while it was surely meant to allude to the band's break-up, rather it was the fake band pretending to be Pink Floyd that best personified the album's title.  Fake credits were handed out to original band members that at best had a de minimis role - simply, categorically, an all-around fraud.  Truth told, it actually a middling album by any other band's standard but comprehensively unworthy of Pink Floyd.  Even the best cut on the entire album can't match the worst on A Saucerful of Secrets: had it preceded Saucerful, one could discern elements of greatness that might culminate in the band Pink Floyd eventually developed but that would have been pre 1967, not 1987....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3gQ4A-xzp0

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op.76/2 "Fifths"
Alban Berg Quartet

William Grant Still: Summerland
Althea Waites, piano

Franz Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B-flat, D.485
Vladimir Spivakov/Moscow Virtuosi

Tonight it was streaming Radio Caprice Darkwave, out of Russia.

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Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op.64: Morning Dance
Seiji Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.6 in D "Carnival at Pest"
Kurt Masur/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in A, K.322
Michael Lewin, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Claudio Abbado/Vienna Philharmonic

Franz Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 "Unfinished"
Daniel Barenboim/Berlin Philharmonic

Johann Sebastian Bach: Triple Concerto in A minor, BWV 1044
Elizabeth Wallfisch/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Lisa Beznosiuk, flute; Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin; Paul Nicholson, harpsichord

Frédéric Chopin: Waltz in D-flat, Op.70/3
Alexandre Tharaud, piano

Johann Sigismund Kusser: Overture No.3 in C
Peter Zajícek/Musica Aeterna, Bratislava

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No.2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2
Giuseppe Sinopoli/Dresden State Orchestra; Han-Na Chang, cello

A late shave this morning, so I missed the 10am symphony, Beethoven's 7th. The Haydn concerto made me think of one of my first girlfriends, a cellist. There is something sexy about a talented woman playing the cello.

A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd

This was the last of Barrett as a Pink Floyd member.  It, however, is yet highly derivative of his influence with brief glimpses of the brilliance that was to come in future works represented in recurring note patterns occurring in songs and Waters' tracks specifically.  All in all, about on par with Pink Floyd's post Waters work from Momentary Lapse of Reason onward; while not a bad effort for a band finding its genius in the case of Saucerful of Secrets contrasted with simply cashing in on the fame from previous work in the case of Momentary Lapse of Reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-CB72dw8Y

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