The fruits of self-isolation:
The Soft Machine ‘Volume One’
Morrissey ‘I Am Not A Dog On A Chain’
Derek and the Dominos ‘Live At The Fillmore’
Be Bop Deluxe ‘Axe Victim’
Nils Lofgren ‘Old School’
Deep Purple ‘In Rock’
Henry Cow ‘In Praise Of Learning’
Van Morrison ‘Common One’
Steve Harley ‘The Candidate’
Donna Summer ‘Love To Love You Baby’/‘Try Me I Know We Can Make It’ 1977 extended version LP
The Charlatans ‘Indian Rope’ 45
Eddie and the Hot Rods ‘Ignore Them’ 45
Radio Stars ‘Nervous Wreck’ 45
Plummet Airlines ’Silver Shirt’ 45
The 101ers ‘Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited)’
ZZ Top ‘Tres Hombres’
ZZ Top ‘Eliminator’
Cockney Rejects ‘Greatest Hits Volume 1’
Various ‘Hits Greatest Stiffs’
Anthony Braxton ‘Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988’
Bobby Naughton Units ‘Understanding’
Bobby Naughton ‘The Haunt’
Lyle Mays (RIP) S/T
Pat Metheny ‘Bright Size Life’
Pat Metheny Group S/T
Tom van der Geld/Children At Play ‘Patience’
Barre Phillips ‘For All It Is’
OM ‘Kirikuki’
Charley Pride ‘Songs of Pride - Charley That Is’
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf ’Sings Operetta’
Buxtehude: Prelude in C, BuxWV 137 (Harald Vogel)
Mozart: Piano Concerto no.17 (Geza Anda)
Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D 960 (Geza Anda)
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (Geza Anda)
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (Wilhelm Kempff)
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (Alfred Brendel)
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op.13 (Arthur Rubinstein)
- of which Kempff takes the medal
Schubert: Impromptus (Clifford Curzon)
Sibelius: Symphony no.4 (Halle/Elder)
Beethoven: Symphony no.2 (BPO/Karajan 1962)
Brahms: Symphony no.1 (BPO/Karajan 1964)
Brahms: Symphony no.2 (BPO/Barbirolli 1962)
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (New Philharmonia/Boulez) - a truly awful reading, plodding and tedious; quite the worst of over 200 I’ve heard. Boulez was a great interpreter of 20th century music, but not this.
Take care everyone, and stay healthy.
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