Pastoral - Pleasingly Peaceful and Innocent

Dear Readers, 

Dear Friends,

I sometimes 

wonder what you do.

Do you commute to work every day?

Do you run around in the 

maze and madness of modern day traffic?

Have you ever got caught up in it inadvertently?

If in fact you do have to deal with this malady,

and even if you don't, 

I may have just the thing for you. 

Music to calm and relax you

when all around you there's chaos.

(Sir Edward Elgar & bike)

A Tunnel Of Time - Selected British Piano Music of the Twentieth Century

is a stunning collection

of beautiful,

and mostly calming,

pastoral pieces

by

Sir Edward Elgar,

1. In Smyrna

2. Serenade

3. Adieu

Frederick Delius,

Three Preludes

4. Scherzando

5. Quick

6. Con moto

Ernest John Moeran,

7. Summer Valley

John Ireland,

8. The Island Spell

Benjamin Britten, 

Holiday Diary

9. Early Morning Bathe

10. Sailing

11. Fun-Fair

12. Night

Christopher Headington,

13. Ballade-Image

14. Cinquanta

and

 Paul Patterson,

15. A Tunnel of Time Op 66

If, 

in fact we do drive to the music,

it is music like this

that will deliver us to our destination intact, relaxed,

and with wistful and knowing smiles on our faces.

This recording could be hard to find. 

A friend of mine brought me a copy from the UK. 

A Tunnel Of Time

Selected British Piano Music of the Twentieth Century 

was manufactured & marketed by

Kingdom Records Ltd.

Crown House, 119 The Broadway, London N.W.2 3JG

Tel: 081-208 4448  Fax: 081-208 4343

Volume 17. Buried Treasure

Welcome back Dear Readers.

So nice to be with you again.

As many of you may recall, a few weeks ago my hard drive went and my Music Library was desimated. Since then I have gone through three new hard drives.

The first two were too small, as it turns out.

The third one, which I installed myself saving $125, is 500 GB and should allow for continued growth.

The installation was a piece of cake.

Restoring things, that is transferring everything from one computer to the next, was a bit trickier, but I got it done.

As I write this, I have completely restored and even added to my beloved Music Library.

What a relief!

And yes, I did learn my lesson...

BE SURE TO BACK YOUR COMPUTER UP DAILY.

In recreating my library I refamiliarized myself with many recordings.

I even discovered some CDs that I'd never opened.

The Malipiero recording at the top of the page is one such example.

And too bad for me!

What beautiful music poured forth from that recording.

What beautiful music I'd been depriving myself of.

Dreamy, perfumed meanderings reminded me of Sorabji.

There were pastoral moments that sounded like John Ireland or like Vaughan Williams' The Lake In The Mountains.

There were shimmery cascades of sound that brought Debussy to mind, and Messiaen - like bird calls.

All this had been sitting there waiting for me, neglected for years he said sheepishly.

How silly that I had missed this.

And if truth be told, there were others.

But let's save them for another rainy day.