Best of the Web This Week

For this week's review, I ended up with nearly 1100 photographs to sift and sort through to select the best for you to peruse.  The decisions were difficult at times, especially when dealing with multiple exquisite photographs of the same model.  Sometimes I had to just play Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe to end up with a selection.  In the end, I selected 94 primo examples of art in the male form to display for your inspection and appreciation.  Once again there is a little something for everyone with models from young to old, smooth to hairy, some with varying amounts of fabric and some very nude.  You should have a fun cruise down the page and a difficult time deciding which is your favorite.  A more pleasant task would be hard to imagine for a Saturday morning.  

This week's Saturday Soundtrack is as exquisite as the photographs on display below the video.  Your Saturday Soundtrack is a super-compendium of previously-uploaded solo music tracks by Pianist Glen Hoban with all music being performed by him.  All the recordings and photographs are his artistic property with a run time of five hours and twenty-four minutes.  This will give you plenty of relaxing accompaniment for your leisurely cruise down the page and any other site you may wonder across while listening to this talented musician's renderings of the works of several well know composers with some original compositions by the Pianist interspersed.  The complete play list with starting times of each piece is as follows:

Japanese Love Song (J.S. Zamecnik)
Moment Musicaux #6 (Schubert) (2:26)
Hush Ye, My Bairnie (Scottish Folk) (12:19)
Spring Song (Mendelssohn) (15:15)
Etude #26 (Chopin ) (18:13)
Claire de Lune (Debussy) (21:01)
Handel's Largo (transcription) (26:05)
Fur Elise (Beethoven) (32:14)
At Your Feet (Grieg) (26:24)
Bethena Waltz (Scott Joplin) (40:27)
Waltz in #15 A Flat (Brahms) (47:55)
Waltz #2 (Brahms) (50:14)
Entrance Theme For Emperor (Improv on ancient theme) (52:54)
Intermezzo E Flat (Brahms) (55:00)
Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 116 #2 (Brahms) (1:02:22)
Intermezzo Op. 76 #7 (Brahms) (1:06:05)
Intermezzo In A Op. 118 #3 (Brahms) (1:10:08)
Intermezzo Op. 119 #2 (Brahms) (1:17:22)
Romanze (Brahms) :1:25:00)
Sonata 10, 2nd Movement (Beethoven) (1:29:33)
Nocturne #2 (Chopin) (1:38:49)
Nocturne #16 (Chopin) (1:44:15)
Nocturne #18 (Chopin) (1:49:38)
Prelude #17 (Chopin) (1:56:17)
Prelude #23 (Chopin) (2:00:09)
Bach: Fugue #1 (WTC Book I) (2:01:15)
The Swan (St. Saens) (2:04:17)
Waltz #3 (Chopin) (2:06:34)
Waltz #9 (Chopin) (2:13:43)
Prelude #4 (Chopin) (2:18:21)
Gladiolus Rag (Scott Joplin) (2:20:54)
Bink's Waltz (Soctt Joplin) (2:25:27)
Arabesque #1 (Debussy) :2:30:07)
Deep River (Samuel Taylor Coleridge Arr.) (2:35:42)
Illusion (Grieg) (2:44:57)
Gymnopodie #1 (My own composition) (2:49:41)
Gymnopodie #3 (My own composition) (2:53:12)
Gymnopodie #5 (My own composition) (2:55:52)
Gymnopodie #6 (My own composition) (2:57:19)
Sarabande in D Minor (Handel) (2:59:39)
The Last Rose of Summer (Von Flowtow) (3:00:57)
'Moonlight Sonata', First Movement (Beethoven) (3:03:20)
Nocturne #10 (Chopin) (3:09:45)
Nocturne #19 (Chopin) (3:15:28)
Nocturne #14 (Chopin) (3:20:12)
Pathetique Sonata, Second Movement (Beethoven) (3:28:47)
Vanished Days (Grieg) (3:33:43)
Gade (Grieg) (3:40:47)
Peace of the Woods (Grieg) (3:45:23)
Prelude #15 ('Raindrop Prelude'; Chopin) (3:52:00)
Impromptu #3 (Schubert) (3:57:06)
Sarabande with Variations (Handel) (4:04:35)
Solace (Scott Joplin) (4:06:40)
Summer's Eve (Grieg) (4:14:52)
Waltz #10 (Chopin) (4:17:50)
Londonderry Air (Irish Folk) (4:20:55)
Waltz in F Major (Original Composition) (4:23:22)
Oh My Beloved (Folk Song) (4:25:43)
Orientale (Granados) (4:28:31)
Reverie Improv (Original Composition) (4:35:29)
Searchlight Rag (Scott Joplin) (4:39:18)
Sometime I Feel Like A Motherless Child (STC Arr.) (4:46:13)
Sunflower Slow Drag (Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden) (4:52:18)
The Cat's Fugue (Scarlatti) (4:56:54)
Waltz-Gymnopodie (Original Composition) (5:00:19)
Wall Street Rag (Scott Joplin) (5:03:13)
Pine Apple Rag (Scott Joplin) (5:08:41)
Etude #26 (Slower Version) (5:13:14)
Indian Love Song (J.S. Zamecnik) (5:17:08)
Fur Elise (With ornamentations; Beethpven) (5:19:58)

Thanks for joining me for this week's review and soundtrack, we will meet once again on Monday when I will have another collection of Music, Men and More!   Until next time as always, Enjoy!