Nigthafternight playlist and reading list

— Rachmaninov, Preludes & Melodies; Alessio Bax (Signum)

— Louis Couperin, Pièces de Clavecin, complete; Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)

— Steve Reich, WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns; Kronos Quartet, So Percussion (Nonesuch)

— Beethoven, "Archduke" Trio, Mozart Quintet K. 593; Uchida, Kim, Soyer, and others live from Marlboro (ArkivMusic)

— Schubert, Ninth Symphony; Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra (Channel Classics)

— Bach, Sinfonias and Concertos for oboe; Heinz Holliger, Erich Höbarth, Camerata Bern (ECM)

Summer reading: Gunther Schuller, A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty; Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child; Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot; Amy Waldman, The Submission; Claudio Benzecry, The Opera Fanatic; Udo Bermbach, Richard Wagner in Deutschland; D. H. Lawrence, The Trespasser; E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey; Robert Kiely, Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints; etc.