In the Middle of the Week
There’s a big pile of books to be written up, but I’ve decided to take the rest of the afternoon “half off,” and do clerical stuff that allows me to have a little music going in the background. The little music that I’ve chosen is the once-singleton recording of Der Rosenkavalier made by Herbert von Karajan in the late Fifties – the recording that the production’s Marschallin, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, devoted her last years to reissuing in monaural sound. I’ve never heard that version, and I don’t want to.
The birds are twittering…