Monthly Archives: August 2010

Being blackmailed

For obvious reasons I’m not naming people or organisations involved in this story. I am also falsifying the date. But I want my feelings to be on record. We have been invited to join another local choir to sing a … Continue reading

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Prom 37

Others in the family got to this Prom, with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. It was rather a mixed bag but went down well. After the overture to La Forza del Destino, there was the novelty of Dallapiccola’s … Continue reading

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LPs batch 24: Liszt

Quite a lot of piano and chamber music remain to be done, and I tackled some of it in this batch. Beginning with two discs of quartets from Eastern Europe: a Supraphon of the Smetana Quartet playing Janáček’s and the … Continue reading

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