I often wonder whether I'm getting good value from my £9.99 pm Spotify subscription. I listen to so little music but I do so, like everything else, in fits and starts.
Maybe I should have symphonic nights as well as my movie nights.
I am a fan of Mahler's symphonies and could easily binge listen to them in sequence. I am definitely interested in Bruckner's symphonies. I'm pretty sure I haven't heard them all but I couldn't say which I have.
I could list the tracks on my Spotify playlists but that would be very embarrassing. On the other hand....
OK, this is playlist Nigel1:
* I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables (film version) - Anne Hathaway
* Send in the Clowns from Stephen Sindheim's A Little Night Music - Judy Collins
* I Have A Dream from Mamma Mia - Amanda Seyfried
(Oh my goodness, this really IS embarrassing - but if you blog you probably have to be prepared to be embarrassed)
* Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
(that's more like it)
* A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Annie Lennox
* Baba Yetu - The Soweto Gospel Choir
(that will get you all Googling)
* Imagine - John Lennon
* Pinball Wizard - The Who
* Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti
* We Are The Champions - Queen
* Dido's Lament "When I am Laid In Earth" (Purcell) - Sally Stapleton
* Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony - Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra
* Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber) - Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
* All I Do Is Dream Of You - Faultline
* Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra
* Lacrimosa from Requiem (Mozart) - Stephen Cleobury, Academy Of Ancient Music
* Summertime from Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis
That's quite eclectic, now I think about it. Pretty sure Trevor will chastise me for listening on my Amazon Alexa but that's what I am doing now as a I write this.
I also have more stuff in my Spotify library: Bach, Wagner, Wynton Marsalis, Ariana Grande, Prokofiev and of course more Mahler. So maybe a tenner a month is OK for value.
I enjoyed writing this, re-listening to previous choices and now thinking about new playlists. Thank you for reading!