Happy Birthday, Don!   You must be about Jack Benny's age now!!! LOL

Mary Ann, Bubble, MarsGal, Tomereader,  thank you for you birthday wishes; they are very much appreciated.

I don't know if I want to read the whole book, but I was quite taken by the first paragraph. Can you guess why?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CO464SG#reader_B01CO464SG

In the take a look feature scroll down to the first paragraph of Chapter 1 if it doesn't come to rest there.

I read 3 chapters before being able to stop!
I did not know you liked fantasy/SF.

Pity that the link does not give the whole book!

I've been somewhat "obsessed" with reading Science Fiction for the last two years. Amazon offers some of books free for download if you have a Kindle. In addition, I have Amazon Prime, so I can borrow others from their Lending Library. Many of the SciFi books I read are Military SciFi or  adventure/exploration mysteries.

Right now, I am reading the second of a spy trilogy by Jason Matthews. The Red Sparrow was the first and is being made into a movie to be released next year. I wonder who they are going to get to play Putin.The second book, the one I am reading now, is Palace of Treason. The story itself is current day, and plays out, so far, in Moscow, Helsinki, Athens, Rome, Paris, Washington DC, and the Estonian border. The author and his wife are retired CIA.

A couple of works by the Danish composer Emil Reesen will provide an interesting listening experience as does a work by a renowned chess master.A short work by Johann Strauss provides us with a piece that's most certainly off his beaten path, and Maxwell Davies gives us an Orkney Island protest melody

Reid’s Records:   Programme   #1529 Nov 20/2016


1:   Reesen: Festmarch CDR4776
       Dacapo 8.226031 (track 13)                            03:41     3:41

2:   Handel/Beecham: Love In Bath  H2.0144 CDR -212
        Seraphim 60039 (side 1)     Tr 1-2-3                11:19   14:56

3:   Coleridge-Taylor: Bamboula C5.0599   CDR-121
         Angel DS-38186 (side 2, track 2)       Tr 4              10:20   25:16

4:   Rossini: Semirmade Overture CDR8681
   London 443850-1 (cd 2, track 5)            12:15   37:31

5:   Weber: Oberon Overture CDW4230
   Nimbus NI 5154 (track 2)            08:35    46:06

6:   Johann Strauss jr:  Romance for Cello CDS9846
   OEHMS OC546 (track 6)               04:45   50:51

7:   Grainger: Shepherd's Hey CDG9179
         EMI CDZ 7 62529 2 (track 13)                          02:09   53:00
   
8:   Hummel: Oberon’s Magic Horn CDH8704
   Naxos   8.557845 (track 3)            18:47   71:47

9:   Peter Maxwell Davies: Yellow Cake Revue CDD2723
   Sony SK60274 (Track 16)               04:18   76:05

10:   Philidor: Le Maréchal Ferrant Overture CDP4830
   Naxos 8557593-94 (cd-1, tracks 1-2-3)         12:44   88:49

11:   Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche  P8.0505
         MHS 7271A (side 2, cut 4)                             08:27   97:16

12:   Ostroushko: Teelin Bay Waltz CDO9653
        Red House Records   RHRCD 170   (track 3)                03:2  100:44

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13:   Donizetti: La Favorita (ballet) CDD6582
   London 452 767-2 (track 2)            08:40    8:40

14:   Handel: Ode For St, Cecilia   CDH2137
        Teldec 8.42349    (tracks 4 - 5)                        05:40   14:20

15:   Reesen: Gaucho Ballet CDR4776
       Dacapo 8.226031 (tracks 9-10-11)         07:05   21:25

16:   Berlioz: La Mort d’Ophélie B6166
   Philips 416 431-2   (Track 6)            07:36   29:01

17:   Chopin: 1st Piano Concerto 2nd mvmnt CDS5515
   Naxos 8.553216 (track 7)            11:39   40:40

18:   Vivaldi/Zamfir: Winter CBB4773
   Philips 468 138-2 (track 8            05:14   45:54


Sunday afternoon 1:05 P.M . -5 GMT (Canada)

http://tunein.com/radio/1069-The-X-s12279/

Handel/Beecham: Love In Bath - made me laugh.  No one composed Love in Shower? lol
Mybe they did not have showers at that time?  I wonder when it was invented.

Don, I have often wondered where composer came up with the names for their compositions. 

DON  looking forward to your program this afternoon. Nice to see Chopin in there, too.

Here I am, I have just put Aviv to bed and I hope he falls asleep fast!

Hi Larry, Hi Bubble, Hi Gloria.

Bath is a city in southwest England, an ancient Roman resort area famous for its hot springs.

Yes and Caesar enjoyed its water. It is just that the title evoked a different image than restorative waters. 

Larry I have been curious about the "name" thing as well. I bought this particular recording because I was curious abot the name,

Bath is where my Dad met Mom. She was working in a hotel in Bath. They met one day while walking in the promenade. I don't recall the name of the street.

I am here and know I will enjoy the program. It is a cold and gray day here, great day to sit back all warm and cozy to listen to good music. A nice march to start.

MarsGal that's an interesting link to Bath. I have been there and it is a beautiful city.  The hot baths are still there but for health reasons they are not accessible to the public.

great Bath music - I could enjoy it soaking...

A bamboula is a type of drum made from a section of giant bamboo with skin stretched over the ends. It is also a dance accompanied by music from these drums.

There was no mention of the drums in the research I did, but it certainly fits in with the music. Did you have them in the Congo?

I find this too 'tame" to be African, more like a waltz even.
Congo music was more rhythmic, syncopated.  They had tam tams but I don't remember anything
called bamboula although the  term is derived from kam-bumbulu and ba m'bula in the Bantu languages which means drum.
Bantu tribes live in Congo.
In my childhood, we had  dolls named bamboula, dark skinned and frizzy haired.  They were made in velvet, with oversized arms and legs. I had such a boy and a girl, twins sitting on a shelf above my baby crib and I could reach and pull them down by the long leg.  Memories...

BUBBLE  you have lived in some interesting places. I feel lucky I went into Canada, just over the border in Maine and into Mexico just over the border where my daughter lived in San Diego. I have only lived the the 3 south New England states

Yellow Cake Revue was much liked by Illy and Rafi who arrived to take the little one back home.
Superb!

I will make a note to put in Raffi's cd

Able to be here for a change. I've missed these concerts!

Hi JoanK.

I looke up Teelin Bay. It is in County Donegal, Ireland. Short YouTube video of the bay.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzycIModzeQ

It just started light flurries here.

JoanK we have missed you too; welcome back. All we are missing now is Pat.

Interesting Saint. What publicity will do!

I Love the Gaucho one!

This is beautiful!

Hey Joan, where have you been hiding? lol 
Yes, it is beautiful