Vladimir Ashkenazy - Chopin Favourite Piano Works
I heard a Chopin solo piano piece played on Martin Handley’s programme on Radio 3 and needed to hear more. This is the only album I have to fit that requirement.
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Clive seeing the Chopin you are playing I picked this album up yesterday in a charirty shop for a pound.
I see your CD is on Decca their a great label always superb recordings on it especially vinyl from the 60’s @ 70 's is very collectable.
Wishing you a relaxing Sunday
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Thanks, you too. I’m really envious of those who keep finding excellent CDs at their local charity shops. My local Oxfam seems to have little other than Val Doonican and Mariah Carey!
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Have a look for the masterful Chopin record of solo piano pieces which the mercurial Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli made for DG in the early 1970s.
Or any of his pupil, Maurizio Pollini’s Chopin. Pollini made a recording for EMI in 1960 of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto (Philharmona/Kletzki) and a disc of solo piano pieces, before retiring from the concert stage to study with Michelangeli for seven years. Pollini re-emerged with a new recording contract with DG, and made six or seven Chopin recordings for that label.
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I have a few Chopin discs by Maria Joāo Pires, as well as another one or two which I can’t remember right now. These may well be Pollini. I’ll have to have a search. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Cowboy Junkies, Such Ferocious Beauty, 2023.
The Cowboy Junkies are alive and well and like anybody else managing loss, grief and that bitter sense of lost opportunity (just my opinion).
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Miles Davis Live Around The World / 1996 Warner / Germany CD / 8122736122
More Miles, but from a different era.
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Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session, 1988.
Because this contains the best cover ever of Sweet Jane, according to Lou Reed himself.
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Nothing like Highway Star to start your Sunday.
BTW, that TA thingy is growing on me.
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A spot of Mod Revival. Released 43 years ago 
A very decent album, extremely well produced and played. Shades of The Jam, particularly Mark Wincer’s Buckleresque drumming.
I never saw the Lambrettas: I saw The Chords at the Marqee, the Purple Hearts “somewhere in Camden”
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The collection of Smith’s songs featured in David Fincher’s latest movie ‘The Killer’ starring Michael Fassbender
The Smiths – ‘Well I Wonder’
The Smiths – ‘I Know It’s Over’
The Smiths – ‘How Soon Is Now?’
The Smiths – ‘Hand In Glove’
The Smiths – ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’
The Smiths – ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’
The Smiths – ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’
The Smiths – ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’
The Smiths – ‘Unhappy Birthday’
The Smiths – ‘This Charming Man’
The Smiths – ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’
Made into a playlist
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