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The Caretaker
Patience (After Sebald)
2012
History Always Favours The Winners Records
Starting the day with this mournful classic by James Kirby AKA The Caretaker. The album was recorded to accompany the film of the same name about German author W. G. Sebald and a journey he made across East Anglia as documented in his book The Rings Of Saturn. Each track is constructed using fragments taken from a 1927 recording of Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise and is cloaked in hiss and crackle, further accentuating the sombre, liminal qualities of the original recording.
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Alkan’s music is genius! Love his works.
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Thank you for reminding me of the film Patience which creatively reinterprets The Rings of Saturn an oblique introduction to Britain’s acclaimed German novelist Max Sebald. In a former life we showed this to literature students. I shall listen to Caretaker today. His source material must be Richard Tauber.
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2 x CD - EMI Classics
PROKOFIEV - ROMEO AND JULIET (Complete ballet)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Algis Zuraitis - conductor
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Sergei Prokofiev was born on this day in 1891
born in Sontsovka (now Sontsivka) Ukraine 
Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953
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Just got this delivered, after weeks of delays, for Mrs Q @Debs
We played it Saturday. Side A is Peter and the Wolf and Side B is Brittens Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
Numbered Special Edition and sounds lovely.
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Such a great album isn’t it.I love Loser and Sugeree on it.
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Haydn - 11 Piano Sonatas / Alfred Brendel
Gorgeous lunchtime music. Great sound from Phillips Classical too.
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Secondhand Stories on BBC R4 FM
Life on a market stall somewhere in NE London, and the stories behind the objects on sale.
More tomorrow, and probably all this week, at 1.45pm.
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The Only Ones (1978)
A fantastic album from a year of great music, but it never connected with enough people. Maybe they were too far away from the prevailing orthodoxy of the time: Peter Perrett was too pretty, sang in a louche whine rather than a mockney snarl, and was too decadent. The drummer had been in bloody Spooky Tooth. The lead guitarist looked like a balding accountant. The bass player was a scandalously old 40. The songs were too artful for the new wave and too punky for the old wave. And yet… it’s one of the best albums of the era, and would be even if it didn’t include the classic Another Girl, Another Planet.
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