Monday With Mozart

Good morning to you all.  I thought I would get an early start on things as I have a doctor's appointment this morning at 9:30.  I have a new schedule this week which I am mostly happy with.  Although I did not get my Thursday off as I had hoped, I did end up having this entire past weekend off.  This will be my regular schedule for the foreseeable future.  As such I really should have no complaints.  How many people who work retail have weekends off?  So I guess I should consider myself fortunate to be one of the few who have such a rare pleasure.  

I have something  marvelously mellow for your Monday with Mozart today.  Posted down below is Mozart's String Quintet Numbers 3 in C Major, KV 515 and 4 in A Minor, KV 516.  The Quintets are scored for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and a Cello.  Josef Suk joins the Smetana Quartet for this recording of two of the longer of Mozart's chamber pieces with the run time of nearly three hours.  Over on my tumblr, I have a recording of Mozart's 17 Church Sonatas in the order they were written along with a bit of discussion of the sonatas themselves.  

Now it is time for some eye candy and because it is Monday, we all get  to celebrate sexiness in skimpy scraps of material once again with a particularly winsome bunch in this edition of Monday's Undies posted down below.  Meanwhile over on my tumblr, your Hottie of the Day! is definitely 'Thinking of You'!  Now I have to make myself presentable for the doctor, thanks for stopping in.   See you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!

Under The Weather

 

After  a week of erratic schedules and many hours, I am left feeling fairly exhausted.  The strange schedule I have followed for the last week has fucked up my appetite and my  body clock as well as my sleep schedule.  Thankfully I am off until 10 tomorrow night so I can have a little time to recover.  As it its, I spent most of today running to the bathroom, then climbing back in bed before having to run to the bathroom again.  All that being said, I still have some Mozart with which to entertain you today. 

You Monday with Mozart features an all Mozart Live Concert Recital from 1997 by Hungarian Pianist Dezső Ránki.  The play list includes Piano sonata K.282; Fantasia K.397; Allegro K.312;  Piano sonata K.283; Adagio K.540; Piano sonata K.570 and Adagio K.356.  You may also hear Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 17 by joining Dezső Ránki and the English Chamber Orchestra over on my tumblr.  You may also find the Blue Winged Angel who is your Hottie of the Day! to be of some interest also. Thanks for the visit, see you again tomorrow.  Now I am headed back to bed!  Until next time as always, Enjoy!

Saturday at the Symphony Evening Concert

Welcome to the weekend and your Saturday at the Symphony Evening Concert.  Before we get to the Music and the Men, I must apologize for being MIA on the blog yesterday.  I was MIA from a lot of things yesterday as a multiple physical health crisis conjoined to attack me early in the morning.  My sugar crashed and a particularly nasty if short lived virus hit me at the same time around 5 AM.  I normally eat some of my emergency sugar or something that will bring my sugar back up quickly.  However the virus was having none of that as everything I put in my stomach came right back up.  I could not hold my head up, could not eat and felt miserable.  So much so that I pulled a rarity for me and called in sick to stay home in bed.  I worked today as I felt better, not 100 %, but good enough to work.  It wore me out though and I am a tired puppy tonight.  To ease the body and the soul though, I have some excellent selections in both Music and Men for the edification of us all.  

Our featured work for the Evening Concert comes from the pen of English Composer Sir Edward Elgar (yes, he of Pomp and Circumstances fame).  Elgar wrote two complete symphonies with his first in A Flat Major, Opus 55 being premiered in 1908 by the Halle Orchestra under Hans Richter, who declared it to be "the greatest symphony of modern times." It went on to receive just over a hundred performances worldwide during the following year.  Elgar was regarded as a typically English composer and it took some years after his death for a lot of his music to gain in popularity other than the first Symphony , the Violin Concerto and the Enigma Variations which were immediately popular in Britain with the Variations garnering International Praise.  Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the microphone in 1925 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works.  

The appointment of Sakari Oramo to the post of Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2013 Proms season, provides an opportunity to hear him conduct Elgar's epic Symphony Number 1 with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, of which he became Principal Conductor in 2003. It comes from the radio broadcast of 6 February 2009. Instead of the video pics showing English scenes that might be associated with the Elgarian countryside, the videographer opted instead for aspects of Finnish landscapes which they hope are not too inappropriate!  You may hear Elgar's elegiac Symphony Number 2 in E Flat Major, Opus 63 over on my tumblr with a performance by Daniel Harding conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the London Proms 2013 in Royal Albert Hall. 

Then to go along with the Marvelous Music, there are some Gorgeous Guys on display below the video.  All of the svelte models are Naked or Nearly So, and they most assuredly qualify as Fantasy Fuel as well.  So we kill two birds with one collection of sultry sexiness au naturel.  You may also find some more Naked Fantasy Fuel over on my tumblr with Tony who is your Hottie of the Day!  Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with me.  See you again on Monday for another week of Music, Men & More!  Until next time as always, enjoy!

Struggles

I am having a good deal of difficulty controlling my blood sugar this week.  It has crashed down to 50 or below several times this week which has literally worn me out physically.  My appetite comes and goes.  Some days I eat well and other days it is a struggle to get things down.  On top of the emotional turmoil of the last few weeks, it is just one more thing that keeps me out of balance.  So rather than concentrate on the upsetting things in my life, let's move on to the more beautiful things like the Music and the Men.  

Your Musical Moment for Thursday features the Music of Francesco Maria Veracini.  The play list includes Ouverture No.1 In B Flat Major; Ouverture No.2 In F Major; Ouverture No.3 In B Flat Major; Ouverture No.4 In F Major and Ouverture No.6 In B Flat Major with a performance by Musica Antiqua Köln under the baton of Reinhard Goebel.  You may also hear Veracini's Sonata Accademiche over on my tumblr.

Since this is Thursday it must be time for more Men In Jeans, a fine assortment of which you will find on display below the play list.  There is more denim dynamite in the Hottie of the Day! to be seen over on my tumblr.  Thanks for the visit, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!