When I put this on at the weekend, The Boy was loose in the music room, and there's all kinds of damage he could do in there. I had to extract the CD from the wretched cardboard box pronto, and get it into the player. This I managed before he'd done anything more drastic than pull a few CDs from a shelf, but I didn't have time to get the tracklisting to hand, and then I was immobilised with The Boy on my lap, having his bottle. Hence I had no idea who was behind the first track, an atmospheric, cello-led piece. I loved it.
This 'blind listening' was interesting, and when I came back later, without Boy, I made my way through the whole CD this way. I recognised the track from Mike Westbrook's Glad Day album of William Blake settings: blimey, it's over three and a half years since I listened to that; time for another listen, surely, though my work here still has some way to go. I thought another track might be Nicola Walker Smith, but I was wrong. It was Pip Reeves singing with the Canton Opera Company. Then I was pretty sure it was Bernard Hermann at the end, and it was, but a new recording of the music from Vertigo by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, not the original soundtrack.
That first track was Venetian Underground by Philip Sheppard. I've downloaded a couple of his tracks from eMusic to see if they're as good.
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