TSR At Play

An Amoeba Run à la Vilaine:

Gainsbourg... Forever
Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg
Juan Diego Florez, Una furtima lagrima
Paolo Conte, elegia (finally!)
La Forza del Destino: Price, Domingo, Milnes / Levine

plus

Chanticleer, With a Poet's Eye
Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin
Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic
Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time (in the clearance bin, why not)
Kaija Saariaho: Chateau de l'ame (Upshaw, Salonen, Kremer)
Royksopp: The Understanding
Ariadne auf Naxos: Norman, Gruberova, Varady, Baer, FiDi / Masur
Von Karajan and Norman, Tannhäuser/Siegfried-Idyll/Tristan und Isolde

And, as a special nod to Sarah:

Great Operatic Arias: Yvonne Kenny

Comments

[Sarah]

Excellent choice. Enjoy!

Baci,
Sarah

[vilaine fille]

Ma biche, v.f. loves Saariaho, "Ariadne," and Cha(u)nticleer, too - and gratefully takes note of all the nouveautés you bring to her attention. ("Avevo una passione per la musica..." - Viva il Maestro!) bises from v.f.

[Bryant Manning]

nice variety, although i was hoping we might get a peak at your Wham! stash.

[Bryant]

*peek

[Paul G. McCurdy]

Found you through my friend Anne-Carolyn! Nice Ariadne, there! I happened across audio cassettes of Ariadne with Agnes Baltsa as the Composer, Anna Tomowa-Sintow as Ariadne, and Kathleen Battle as Zerbinetta at a Goodwill in SF.

[andrea b.]

Fun, fun, fun! Long time lurker, as they say, first time contributor. Actually, second time, but i do lurk alot. Good blog, mon!

(Paul, that audio casette of Ariadne could be radical good. Just got through an extensive run down of bad Ariadne's [Met and Pittsburgh] with our buddy over at The Unamplified Voice. Your Goodwill find might be the antidote. I'm quite jealous! What label, year and ISBN# is it?)

(vf - I signed up for a typekey for your blog but still can't get logged again, after that one time. is everything okay technology-wise?)

This sure is a fun bunch of opera geeks.

[rb]

Gainsbourg's art fable Evguenie Sokolov is a good companion to Forever (and I mean that in a nice way)

and for vf- i signed up for a typekey too, but no access :(

[M. C-]

Hello, Paul! Hello, Andrea! Nice to have you both here, and thanks for stopping by.

That's quite a find at Goodwill. One afternoon a couple years ago, I got calls from several people alerting me to an amazing LP library that had just appeared at a charity store in West Portal. By the time I showed up it had already been fairly picked through, but even so you could see this was once a connoisseur's collection, developed with great care over a long time. And I guess his family or whoever survived him didn't see the value of keeping the collection intact, and gave it to a Goodwill equivalent. It made me a little sad to see it broken up like that. I walked away with some Kipnis and Souzay discs that seemed to need a good home.

Bryant, come on: this is a Wham! free household. (Though if I could figure out how to include a photo in a comment, I'd gladly give you a peek at my George Michael collection.)