Book sale serendipity
Psst, readers in Charlottesville who read this blog for the music bits (all two or three of you): The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s annual Friends of the Library book sale is an unexpectedly good place to find classical music CDs. I spent the earlier part of the afternoon there and walked away with Cecilia Bartoli’s 18th-century Italian love songs collection and (this was what really snowed me) a complete recording of the 1956 Karajan Rosenkavalier. It looked like someone was seriously into Strauss’s operas at some point and then decided to offload their collection, because I also spotted recordings of Salome and Die Frau Ohne Schatten.
Right now I’ve got the Met broadcast on in the background. Wow, it’s been a while since I listened to anything by Tchaikovsky. And tonight I’ll be communing with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Christa Ludwig, or maybe La Bartoli, and life, for the moment, is good.
One of your three laughs. It’s probably a good thing that I didn’t read this post until too late to go out. There is only so much you can spend on opera/books to cram into a tiny apartment. (Though I suppose you know that annoyance.) On the other hand, tomorrow is another day, and the possibility of offloaded Strauss and such is tempting. Maybe I’ll procrastinate (and spend) tomorrow, hmmm. That Bartoli album is wonderful though, enjoy…