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#DailyCDBox 22 Mostly Philip Glass

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Of the 18 possible choices of discs by Mr Glass, I chose his soundtrack to the film “The Hours”, while probably not seen as one of his major works, for me, it’s one of his best!
January 29, 2026 at 8:06 AM
#DailyCDBox 42 Paganini - Pasterwiz

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Part's "Fratres", written over a long period in the 80s/90s, continually reinterpreted for different chamber set ups, with "Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten" as a beautiful added bonus
February 20, 2026 at 7:12 AM
#DailyCDBox 108, Terry Bozzio to Bill Bruford to Gary Boyle...

A box bookended by drummers but I chose a bassist. Jack Bruce, whose solo work was always more inspiring than that of Cream (for me anyway) - better musicians for a start - John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Jon Hiseman...
May 11, 2026 at 9:13 AM
#DailyCDBox No 2. One disc from each of my boxes of CDs, every day. I have enough of these boxes to play one CD a day for over a year. Today, a disc of “Sinfonias” by JSB and his sons, JC, WF & CPE Bach… Bought in Hamburg, sometime last decade. “Delightful”…
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
#DailyCDBox 1 disc from each of my boxes of CDs, every day. I have enough of these boxes to play 1 CD a day for over a year. Starting with a disc of piano music by Albeniz. How long do you think it will be before this stupid project falls by the wayside, like almost everything I’ve done? We’ll see…
January 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
#DailyCDBox 134 The Modern Jazz Quartet to Lee Morgan

I chose this. Never in Yes at the same time but the best drummer and keyboardist they ever had (IMHO). Their 2nd LP, where the pure piano and drums concept was abandoned, was a comparative let down. This is great though...
May 21, 2026 at 11:58 AM
#DailyCDBox 142 Jimmy Smith to Soft Machine

I chose Soft Machine, their current "Thirteen" is my top LP of 2026 so far

This is "5th" from 1972, for some, their peak, featuring the classic Dean, Ratledge, Hopper, Marshall line up on side 2, with drummer Phil Howard in for Marshall on side 1

Top!
May 22, 2026 at 8:29 AM
#DailyCDBox 21 Foote to Glass

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Today, the beautiful cello concertos by Durham’s own John Garth, a 2CD set.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ga...

This set is one of only two available recordings of his work - it’s sublime…
January 28, 2026 at 8:03 AM
#DailyCDBox No 63 Weinberg-Zemlinsky
Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

A favourite band, Concerto Koln, playing two symphonies, in a World Premiere Recording of the music of Johann Wilhelm Wilms, on Archiv, from 2004

Wilms composed the Dutch National Anthem used 1817-1932
March 16, 2026 at 8:23 AM
#DailyCDBox No 12

Daily disc per CD box. Got enough to play a CD a day for over a year

The 12th box: Mostly Brahms again

But eschewed that for Glenn Branca’s Symphony No 9 from 1995, which is, frankly, tough going. Tuneless but not in a good way - with a choir making it even worse along the way…
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM
#DailyCDBox 56 Stravinsky - Tavener

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

16th century dance music from the pen or, perhaps, quill, of Tielman Susato, played by the New London Consort/Philip Pickett on Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, released in 1993. "Delightful" of course...
March 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
#DailyCDBox 18

1 CD a day per box. Enough boxes for this to last over a year

Today, Dohl to Dvorak

Chose Dohnanyi’s SQs 1 & 3 by the Avivs. Superb. Really must get round to getting the others. Been a fan of Dohnanyi since attending a performance of a string trio in a library in Dublin, May 1997
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 AM
#DailyCDBox 38 Metcalfe - Morricone

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Chose this Monteverdi disc by Christine Pluhar & L'Arpeggiata

Bought in Zardoz, in Hamburg on the day of the Brexit referendum, June 23, 2016 - absolute fuckwittery, cubed

The record is good though
February 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM
#DailyCDBox 137, from Charlie Parker to Phronesis...

More Bill Bruford

This time, with Piano Circus, from 2009...

I had no recollection at all of what this sounded like but it turned out to be (consults notes) "extremely tasty"...
May 21, 2026 at 12:10 PM
#DailyCDBox 25 Handel - Haydn

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Today, I chose a disc of 20th Century composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s string quartets 1 & 2, from 1933 & 1945/6, bookending the Nazi era

Played by the Pellegrini Quartett

Another set of top quartets indeed!
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
#DailyCDBox 107, Art Blakey to Gary Boyle...

Chose a Paul Bley quartet disc on ECM from 1993, with Gary Peacock, Tony Oxley and, one of my faves, John Surman on Sax... Bought this at Record Shak here in Edinburgh - sadly long gone, following the death of the lovely owner, Dave Gass...
May 11, 2026 at 9:08 AM
#DailyCDBox No 70 Ensemble Alternance - Gabrielli Consort

Chose this String Trio disc. Four works by four faves. Schnittke, Weinberg, Kurtag and Pendercki, all four were born within a fifteen year period. Superb music...
March 24, 2026 at 7:57 AM
#DailyCDBox No 67 Julian Bream - Peter Cowdry

2on1 CD featuring 1997 remasters of 1958-60 recordings by jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd. It served as an intro to overlooked musical genres for jazz afficionados, preceding Byrd's introduction of Bossa Nova to American audiences a couple of years later...
March 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM
#DailyCDBox 26 All Haydn

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Of the options open to me today, I chose a disc of 5 of Haydn's String Trios, played by the Deutsches Streichtrio, originally released in 1981...

Lovely, of course...

With notes entirely in German...
February 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM
#DailyCDBox 17

1 CD a day per box. Enough boxes for this to take more than a year

Today, Crusell to Dittersdorf

Chose a sterling Debussy recital by Mitsuko Uchida, purchased for 50p from the Red Cross in Berwick Upon Tweed, 12 November 2024, coming home from a Yorkshire CBQ performance

Wonderful
January 24, 2026 at 6:43 AM
#DailyCDBox 16

Daily disc per CD box. Got enough to play a CD a day for over a year

Today, Corelli by the Purcell Quartet

Beautiful

Bought 5 Feb 2016 at Spittalfields Market in London, when we were down to see Michael Rother

"Ooh, that's a bit highbrow" said the stallholder while taking my cash
January 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
#DailyCDBox No 73 Harnoncourt - Izzy

Today, pianist Rolf Hind's debut recording, issued on Factory Records 37 years ago but still as fresh as it was then

Features works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Martland, Oliver Messiaen and Elliott Carter

Difficult listening hour (and three minutes twenty seconds)
March 26, 2026 at 9:59 AM
#DailyCDBox 30 Janacek - Kertsman

Box a day, playing 1 CD. Enough boxes to last over a year

Chose a single disc of Janacek's piano music, played by Mr Andsnes, from 1991

I seem to recall basing a track on my 2010 song-based album "Splinterheart" on a piece from this CD

Anyway, very enjoyable
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
#DailyCDBox No 9

Daily disc per CD box. Got enough to play a CD a day for over a year

Yesterday's box, Benda to Bingen, gave me Nick Bicât's "Under the Eye of Heaven" with the LCO. Not as good as I'd recalled. The slow movements are beautiful tho. Orchestra & rock band, incl prog & fusion elements
January 17, 2026 at 10:50 AM
#DailyCDBox 111 Billy Cobham - John Coltrane

Ornette's "Science Fiction" from a shop in Fussen, nr Neuschwannstein, 2003. He was an influence on The Bad Plus & drummer Dave King's Happy Apple. 2007, the 2 bands formed The Bad Apple at Edinburgh Jazz Fest to play Coleman in his presence and mine...
May 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM