{"id":4964,"date":"2018-07-13T16:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:42:10","slug":"another-collection-of-lps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/07\/13\/another-collection-of-lps\/","title":{"rendered":"another collection of LPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I transferred our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/03\/09\/the-process-starts\/\">LP collection<\/a> to CD.  I am now embarking on digitising a second collection of LPs, formerly belonging to my husband&#8217;s late aunt and dating from the late 1950s to the 1980s.  It would seem that the only CD player she ever owned was in her car; a combination of early hearing loss, marriage to someone who wasn&#8217;t a music lover and a resistance to new technology meant that she never made the transition to buying CDs.<\/p>\n<p>The collection reveals that she had some very particular tastes; for example Mozart but not Haydn, and a preference for chamber music and Czech composers, especially Dvo\u0159\u00e1k.  There are a few operas, including <i>L&#8217;Incoronazione di Poppea<\/i> and <i>La Clemenza di Tito<\/i>; did she have a thing about operas set in Ancient Rome?<\/p>\n<p>A group of recordings of orchestral works by Berlioz stands out, as there are few other French works.  She must have had a particular liking for this composer, which I share, so it&#8217;s a shame that I never realised it and talked to her about it.  I know there are further discoveries to be made as I work my way through the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I transferred our LP collection to CD. I am now embarking on digitising a second collection of LPs, formerly belonging to my husband&#8217;s late aunt and dating from the late 1950s to the 1980s. It would seem &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/07\/13\/another-collection-of-lps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}