music time

https://youtu.be/sDMPTZ7y1lE

What an absolute classic of a movie soundtrack. I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out and being absolutely mesmerized by both the film and the music. I watched a couple of the sequels but, for me, they ranged from meh to flat out awful and I never bothered with any other in the franchise. This, though, truly deserves the title 'classic'.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
On a Roger Waters kick - what a genius if quite insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWSq5UyERo

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Yet on a Roger Waters kick; as he descended into madness

https://youtu.be/NtAAg_PJlLw

Pink Floyd - Animals

Still on a Roger Waters kick. By this point, Waters was well upon a mental collapse: literally punching and spitting on fans at concerts yet his creativity was at its zenith

https://youtu.be/fGL1_cYFN50

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Continuing on the Roger Waters kick.  Things were nearing a nadir as his psychological state completely deteriorated, a financial manager scandal costing the band tens of millions of dollars along with potential legal consequences, original members turning on each other and new powerful production personnel being introduced.  Literally the band needed a homerun just to avoid ruin and Waters worked like a man possessed to bail the band out and conclude Pink Floyd's existence.  Many people have panned this album including me but upon distance of time, it actually is a decent effort and tight, if overdramatic; reflecting the stress Waters was under and the decadence of the era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3FwgVWmHB8

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Clearly Waters was through and having been the creative, production and driving talent since Barrett, felt the band should cease with his exit (fact of the matter is he was probably correct).  He left all the band members well off, with a cemented reputation, numerous honours and essentially lifelong residual income streams.  Unfortunately, Gilmour had other plans for Pink Floyd....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXlmkNo3Cw

During tonight's shave my iPod was playing Affairs of the Heart - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, composed by [font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Marjan Mozetich.[/font] Juliette Kang, violin / CBC Vancouver Orchestra  / Mario Bernardi, conductor

You gotta have decent bass response for the cellos and basses, which my Bluetooth puck speaker doesn't have.

When that finished, it was Shostakovich's Sonata in D minor for Cello & Piano, Op. 40: II-Allegro — that one moves right along.

A Momentary Lapse of Reason - "Pink Floyd"

Never has an album been so appropriately named - unintentionally, of course; while it was surely meant to allude to the band's break-up, rather it was the fake band pretending to be Pink Floyd that best personified the album's title.  Fake credits were handed out to original band members that at best had a de minimis role - simply, categorically, an all-around fraud.  Truth told, it actually a middling album by any other band's standard but comprehensively unworthy of Pink Floyd.  Even the best cut on the entire album can't match the worst on A Saucerful of Secrets: had it preceded Saucerful, one could discern elements of greatness that might culminate in the band Pink Floyd eventually developed but that would have been pre 1967, not 1987....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3gQ4A-xzp0

Ida Haendel Prague Recordings 1957-1965 

I actually like having this type of music on when I exercise.  Currently listening to disc 1 of 5 in my new semi completed home gym.  Live recordings can be a bit of a hit and miss for me when it comes to audience noise but this one is a winner.  Very good overall sound from this Czech label for the time.
                                                  
                                               
                                       

https://youtu.be/abFWLBtBeBY