#heard 2017

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: September 17 - 23

Read

364. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

365. Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

366. Fury by Salman Rushdie

Seen

306. Without a Clue (1988/Thom Eberhardt)

307. The Iron Curtain (1948/William A. Wellman)

308. As I Was Moving Ahead... (2000/Jonas Mekas)

309. Hold Back the Dawn (1941/Mitchell Leisen)

310. Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976/Ettore Scola)

311. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937/Henry Koster)

312. The Match King (1932/William Keighley)

313. Münchhausen (1943/Josef von Báky)

314. Caravaggio (1986/Derek Jarman)

315. Princess O’Rourke (1943/Norman Krasna)

316. Agatha et les lectures illimitées (1981/Marguerite Duras)

317. Alien: Covenant (2017/Ridley Scott)

318. Slow West (2015/John Maclean)

319. The Bride Wore Red (1937/Dorothy Arzner)

320. Chapayev (1934/Sergei Vasilyev)

321. Calcutta (1947/John Farrow)

322. A Walk in the Woods (2015/Ken Kwapis)

323. Yes, God, Yes (2017/Karen Maine)

324. The Final Comedown (1972/Oscar Williams)

325. Black Wind (1964/Servando González)

Heard

Orchestre de la Cité - Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Beethoven: Sonata No.8 in C Minor "Pathétique"

Grigory Sokolov - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2

St. Lawrence String Quartet - Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8

Håkon Austbø - Satie: Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: September 10 - 16

Read

358. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

359. Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas 

360. The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré 

361. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille

362. White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya

363. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende  

Seen

299. L’auberge rouge (1923/Jean Epstein)

300. Beggars of Life (1928/William A. Wellman)

301. The Walls of Jericho (1948/John M. Stahl)

302. The Clouded Yellow (1950/Ralph Thomas)

303. Play Girl (1941/Frank Woodruff)

304. The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937/George Fitzmaurice)

305. Local Hero (1983/Bill Forsyth)

Heard

LSO - Holst: Ode to Death

BBC SO - Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Oistrakh / Oborin - Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"

Laura Mikkola/ RSNO - Rautavaara - Piano Concerto No. 1

L'Ensemble Intercontemporain - Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op.4

Glenn Gould / NYPO -  Bach: Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor

Ulster Orchestra - Holst: Japanese Suite Op. 33

David Nolan/ LPO -  Williams: The Lark Ascending

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (Somebody To Love)

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: September 3 - 9

Read

351. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

352. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 

353. Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 

354. A Concise History of Poland by Jerzy Lukowski 

355. Obermann by Étienne Pivert de Senancour

356. Simone de Beauvoir by Toril Moi 

357. Liquidation by Imre Kertész

Seen

291. McLintock! (1963/Andrew V. McLaglen)

292. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955/Charles Lamont)

293. The More the Merrier (1943/George Stevens)

294. Romance in Manhattan (1935/Stephen Roberts)

295. The Fan (1949/Otto Preminger)

296. A Bridge Too Far (1977/Richard Attenborough)

297. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017/James Gunn)

298. The Male Animal (1942/Elliott Nugent)

Heard

Paavali Jumppanen -  Beethoven: Sonata No.9 in E major

Henryk Szeryng/ Ingrid Haebler - Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 21 in E Minor

BBC SO - Lili Boulanger: Psalm 24 "La terre appartient à l'Éternel"

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: August 27 - Sept 2

Read

344. ® Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

345. ® Amerika by Franz Kafka

346. ® Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

347. ® The Manticore by Robertson Davies

348. ® World of Wonders by Robertson Davies

349. The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

350. Reason and Existenz by Karl Jaspers

Seen

279. Under My Skin (1950/Jean Negulesco)

280. Brewster’s Millions (1945/Allan Dwan)

281. Passengers (2016/Morten Tyldum)

282. Game of Thrones: Season 7 (2017)

283. The Mountain Road (1960/Daniel Mann)

284. The Undefeated (1969/Andrew V. McLaglen)

285. The Mechanic (1972/Michael Winner)

286. Kelly’s Heroes (1970/Brian G. Hutton)

287. Blast of Silence (1961/Allen Baron)

288. Mommy (2014/Xavier Dolan)

289. Dangerous Crossing (195/Joseph M. Newman)

290. Justine (1969/George Cukor)

Heard

PJ Harvey- Rid of Me (Rid of Me)   

Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor  

Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Congeniality)  

Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin: 4 Scherzi

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: August 13 - 19

Read

329. Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci

330. Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

331. God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène 

332. My Mother's House by Colette 

333. Sido by Colette 

334. Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse 

335. Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Willard Toland

336. The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi

337. Trifles by Susan Glaspell

338. The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay

Seen

269. Guilty Hands (1931/W.S. Van Dyke)

270. The Vikings (1958/Richard Fleischer)

271. The Plainsman (1936/Cecil B. DeMille)

272. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959/Michael Anderson)

273. Under the Red Robe (1937/Victor Sjöström)

274. The Shooting (1966/Monte Hellman)

275. Absolution (1978/Anthony Page)

276. For the Defense (1930/John Cromwell)

Heard

Alexis Weissenberg / CSO - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3      

Mikhail Pletnev - Scarlatti: Selected Sonatas 

Louis Lortie - Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

France Clidat -  Liszt: Transcendental Études 

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: August 6 - 12

Read

323. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

324. The Adventures of Gil Blas by Alain-René Le Sage 

325. Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

326. Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal 

327. One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta

328. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke

Seen

267. The Lego Batman Movie (2017/Chris McKay)

268. The Last House on the Left (1972/Wes Craven)

Heard

Mikhail Pletnev - Beethoven: Sonata No.21 in C Major, "Waldstein"    

Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (Django)

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: July 30 - August 5

Read

317. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

318. The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet 8/01/17

319. ®  The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer 

320.  ® The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer 8/03/17

321. A Voice from Harper's Ferry by Osborne P. Anderson 

322. Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence

Heard

Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (Take Five) 

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.

[bookmonsterzero]

Read

308. The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark 

309. Porno by Irvine Welsh

310. A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 

311. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

312. The Evenings by Gerard Reve 

313. Political Writings by Pierre Bayle

314. Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre by A. Mary F. Robinson

315. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall

316. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Seen

261. Blanche Fury (1948/Marc Allégret)

262. Cottage to Let (1941/Anthony Asquith)

263. The Hand (1965/Jiří Trnka)

264. Lucky Star (1929/Frank Borzage)

265. Black Magic (1949/Gregory Ratoff)

266. Esther Waters (1948/Ian Dalrymple)

Best reading and viewing experiences in bold, other recommended ones are linked. For albums: ♥ track in (parentheses). ® revisited.