Epigraph ("It's Only a Paper Moon") & Other Songs

[Betty]

I know that the discussion about 1Q84 begins on January 8, but thought to whet your appetite with Printed Lyrics sung by Ella Fitzgerald

[Marieke]

That was great! For anyone using spotify, Galleycat made a playlist for 1Q84...

[Betty]

Marieke wrote: "That was great! For anyone using spotify, Galleycat made a playlist for 1Q84..."

Booktunes has songs from Book 1 and Book 2 without naming them or their composers, but the click-and-play is easy to use if you have good reception. Book 3 might eventually be added. Lately, the MP3 stops after a fourth or third of it plays.

[Betty]

Marieke wrote: "That was great! For anyone using spotify, Galleycat made a playlist for 1Q84..."

Finally, the way to listen to the playlist of 1Q84 on Spotify dawned on me. Am I delighted. And, the tracks play continuously one to the next by itself.

[Marieke]

Oh! Sorry...I hadn't come back to explain . I'm glad you figured it out because it is pretty cool! :)

[Betty]

Marieke wrote: "...I'm glad you figured it out because it is pretty cool! :)"

Absolutely cool. Enjoying the 1Q84 playlist very much; it plays softly in the background as I read the chapters in Murakami's novel.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Cool!

[Betty]

Songs from Sputnik Sweetheart:

Ch 1-3
Mozart's 'Sumire' (The Violet) by Schwarzkopf and Gieseking

thanks to Yukino @ Neon Epiphany “Das Veilchen,” K.476;

and Goethe's poem and here by Leon Malinofsky.

Beethoven's Sonata no. 32 by Wilhelm Backhaus on Decca.
Vladimir Horowitz's Chopin scherzos.
Friedrich Gulda's Debussy's prelude.
Gieseking's Grieg.
Sviatoslav Richter's Prokofiev.
Wanda Landowska's Mozart sonatas.
Astrud Gilberto's bossa nova song 'Take me to Aruanda'.
Moldau R(iver) 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits'.

Ch 4-6
Liszt's Piano Concerto no. 1 (Argerich, Sinopoli).
Vivaldi festival (Venice, August).
Ten Year After LP, Huey Lewis and the News.
Schumann, Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Ravel, Bartók, Profofiev.

Ch 7-9
Brahm's ballads (Julius Katchen's recording)

Ch 10-12
Mozart sonata C minor.
Versions of 'Waldstein' and the 'Kreisleriana'.

Ch 13-16
Mozart lieder (Schwarzkopf, Gieseking).
Greek bouzouki, accordion, flute, guitar.
Ben Webster on Tenortone.
Art of the Fugue.

(stay tuned)