Tuesday, June 27, 2006

pleased.

Dominic lent me his vinyl player, so I've been splurging on records. All these gorgeous historical performances! My CDs are largely still at Danny's, haven't gotten round to collecting them for the past 9 months -cringe- but no fear, no fear, 2quid vinyls are the way to go. My small but growing collection is listed below, and feel free to borrow anything from me:

Opera:
Verdi's Aida
Verdi's La Traviata
Puccini's Manon Lescaut
Puccini's Tosca
Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande
Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice

Piano works:
Chopin's Etudes Op. 10/25
Chopin's Preludes Op. 28
Chopin's Impromptus, 3rd Ballade, Scherzo in C# minor, 4 Mazurkas
Chopin's Piano Sonata #2 and random pieces
Mozart's Double Piano Concerto
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor

Vocal works:
Bach's St John's Passion
Chausson/Ravel songs
Debussy's Chansons
Handel's oratorio "Saul"
Mozart's Requiem
Schubert's assorted Lieder
Schubert's Goethe Lieder
Schumann's Fraudenliebe

Chamber works:
Schubert String Trios in B-flat, String Quintet in C
Schubert String Trio in E-flat

Orchestra:
Brahm's Symphony #4
Mahler's Symphony #1
Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4
Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring/ Seiji Ozawa
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring/ Markevitch
Strauss's Don Juan etc

Most of them are 2 quid each, isn't that amazing? I even got some for 50p, and occasional discounts when I buy in bulk. Now, that's quality. My poor CD player, it's being ignored. But with the money I spend on records, I can only get at most 3 CDs (blatantly ignoring HMV's summer sales, as Jo has pointed out to me), but I assure myself that I've been saving loads of money. And there's so much more that I don't have on CD or LP, and I want to buy and listen to them all!

Dominic and Yang'en, I know you guys loathe French music, but listening to Boulez's recording of Pelleas et Melisande makes me such a happy girl! Why, I swear it's possible to get trippy on good music. =)

Okay, I've finished squealing, back to bullshitting writing essays.

blueprint

I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

fresh monodies

traviata, but none the wiser.
london chronicles.
bitching fit.
i must be back in singapore.
priceless!
i really shld be.
Maria for the day; jumble book sale.
incredulous; happy birthday!
It's very strange. When you're desperately deprive...
in the dark with Murphy for company.

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treatises on life

arty jen
betty boop
carmentica
charming-linn
chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
cheryliciously glam
clean and cute
cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
fellow ditz-sista/porkSTAR
hail mary!
hell's kitchen
hero on the beach
h-Euge heart
hunky lenny
lipgloss queen
little cheryl
live n learn, baby
lolita lou
loony loon
mr popular
musically dan
m y s t j
phringe
princess tania
roger smurf
runaway pigeon
sabotage king jeremiah
sibling angst1
sibling angst2
spector dan
spunky tian
steffy bunny
sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.