Get well soon!

[Pianorak]

Saly - if you like your Bach shaken and stirred listen to Jacques Loussier "Play Bach" all three volumes on one CD, incl. JL joue Kurt Weill (AVID Jazz at the bargain price of £6.99 free postage). If you like your Bach shaken but not stirred follow up with Sviatoslav Richter playing Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery!

[gamba]

salymap,

I'm at home again now after 3 weeks in hospital. I seemed to have inherited a lump in my throat about the size of a chicken's egg. Three weeks with a drip in both arms & pills shovelled down my throat, in order to discover the appropriate panacea. Ultimately, this met with success. I now have some very ' ordinary ' form of throat infection, that I'm glad to say is improving. Last time that happened they coaxed a camera up my nose & down my throat ! Not only did it not hurt it was not even uncomfortable. I wonder if one can buy these things ? Just the thing to develop my ability as a ' street photographer ' & become another Cartier Bresson - alas too late !

Anyway, will be in touch again soon,

Wishing you a quick recovery - as you MUST, with SO many directing their love & good wishes in your direction,

Adding mine to all the others,

Love from gamba

[Serial_Apologist]

Saly's going to find it very hard work, carrying all these 78s out of hospital, on her release!

[gamba]

Something I must add. Throughout a variety of afflictions & illnesses of all kinds, I have longed to hear my music, my CDs..

I have wished & wondered what will satisfy me most. Top of the list of course should I be seriously ill would be the Beethoven ' late ' quartets, I won't go on, except to say I was wrong, on everything I could think of. To my surprise the great moment came with the Bach Cantatas, not all, but most of them. Something incredibly 'life affirming' bringing tears to my eyes

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Gamba - glad to hear from you again; so sorry you've had such a rotten time recently, but I hope all continues to improve.

Best Wishes.

[amateur51]

Gamba - glad to hear from you again; so sorry you've had such a rotten time recently, but I hope all continues to improve.

Best Wishes.

+ 1

[Roehre]

Gamba - glad to hear from you again; so sorry you've had such a rotten time recently, but I hope all continues to improve.

Best Wishes.

the same from me Gamba, all the best

[gradus]

Dear Saly
I have attached a performance of a simple piece of Schumann, the Arabeske. This performance, by Horowitz, is as near perfect as I ever expect to hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-p8YKfSD4
The video recording quality is far from good but is transcended by the playing, so utterly beautiful that words cannot do it justice.
I hope it pleases you as much as it does me.
Best wishes
G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-p8YKfSD4

[gamba]

Thank you all - invisible friends, but friends all the same,

Gamba

[BBMmk2]

Something I must add. Throughout a variety of afflictions & illnesses of all kinds, I have longed to hear my music, my CDs..

I have wished & wondered what will satisfy me most. Top of the list of course should I be seriously ill would be the Beethoven ' late ' quartets, I won't go on, except to say I was wrong, on everything I could think of. To my surprise the great moment came with the Bach Cantatas, not all, but most of them. Something incredibly 'life affirming' bringing tears to my eyes

Lovely to see you here again, gamba. Hope you will be ok now or better! :)

[french frank]

Something I must add. Throughout a variety of afflictions & illnesses of all kinds, I have longed to hear my music, my CDs..

I have wished & wondered what will satisfy me most. Top of the list of course should I be seriously ill would be the Beethoven ' late ' quartets, I won't go on, except to say I was wrong, on everything I could think of. To my surprise the great moment came with the Bach Cantatas, not all, but most of them. Something incredibly 'life affirming' bringing tears to my eyes

And best from me, gamba - and salymap will be so pleased to hear from you, too.

[Karafan]

Hope you're making huge leaps on the road to full recovery Saly - we're missing you dreadfully.

Here's my little musical tonic for you - Schubert's delightful An den Mond, D.296 with Fischer-Dieskau http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZaDC...68A4E5FFD5CC61

Get well soon!!

[EdgeleyRob]

Best wishes Gamba and Saly.

[cloughie]

saly

A couple of shorter pieces to brighten your day:

Mahler's Blumine and Webern's Sommerwind

but to really brighten your mood two complete works:

Schubert 5 and Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto.

Get well soon.

[Flay]

Mozart Flute... Concerto.

Don't you mean oboe concerto? (taking things down a tone...)