Thursday Musical Selection - Classical Gas

An early start today as i will be off to Brighton for the day, and i am concerned a bot about an unaithroized access into my bank account, which i hope to resolve.

Meanwhile, some clasical music for waking up to a fine emerging sunny day.

Sergey Rachmaninov - Isle Of The Dead Symphonic Poem

This version is by the Royal Stockholm Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis.

The image is called Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel) and is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901

( Background info to the mythology )

Next up,
Jean Sibelius - The Swan Of Tuonela

Version by The Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan

Alexander Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy - Le Poème de l'Extase op. 54

Alexander Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstasy" op. 54 also known as his 4th symphony. It is like a long symphonic poem of about 20 minutes composed on a long (about 8 pages) epic-like poem which Scriabin wrote himself. It tells the long course of the spirit through the space, liberated from the human body (like in the "Übermensch" theory of Friederich Nietzsche).

This is the version of Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Link to the poem -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XShpC0jpL0obuSRREZlTlIu4-z8I87-Etb7zPjIMQ6g/edit

Paintings are

Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die Schwebenden"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Bleu de ciel"
Gustav Klimt : "Die Musik"
Vassili Kandinsky : Sketch for the "Composition VII"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Hymne an den Glück"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VII"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VI"
William Turner : "Sunset over a lake"
Vassili Kandinsky : "De courbe à courbe"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die drei Gorgonen"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation Klamm"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation XII"
Caspar David Friedrich : "Frau vor untergehender Sonne"

Enjoy

Brighton Visit Lunch Club

Another excellent lunch club in Brighton with my birther, Phil, Lesley and new member John Barnham, my brother's e-boss fro many years back. Mike had his usual fillet steak, i had the rub-eye steak and Phil had the sirloin steak. Three bottles of wine, followed by a cheese platter. Coffee to finish with.



We first met at the Evening Star pub before walking down to Cafe Rouge. I had a pint of this strong ale.







Mike gave me some Borkum Riff Bourbon Whisky flavoured pipe tobacco and a double CD compilation of Northern Soul classics. I gave him a photographic book of the city of Canterbury.

Then on the way back to Kent  Phil dropped me at a retail park just outside of Crawley for me to do another techy store visit for my main American mystery shopping company.