Back home for a short time...

Dear Gentle Reader,

I now come out of a long, dark period of e-silence.

Sorry about that.

I blame insolvencies, illness, and insurrections.

Those three 'eyes' glared at us simultaneously, which is almost as bad as a basilisk's stare.

But we were not turned to stone--only e-mush that could not post, apparently.

The insolvencies were not personal to us, only their effects were; Hero Pommes, the Wonder Cat, still has a working Swiss credit card.

The illness' are whatever and insurrections are best not dealt with in e-space.

Suffice to say that the Heroine, the Hero, and your humble scribe are, still, all well enough.

As a further excuse for posting laxity, there have also been: house guests, almost continually, from December 1 onwards; multiple trips into China, where your humble scribe cannot access this site; and, a new apartment has been sought in Hong Kong.

Finding an apartment in Hong Kong brings to mind the first verse of W.H. Auden's poem "Say this City has Ten Million Souls"...

Say this city has ten million souls,

Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:

Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.

(W.H. Auden--excerpt, first stanza of

Say this City has Ten Million Souls)

However, a new home has been found.

Not to mention the fact that Hong Kong only has seven million souls. Ish.

Fewer, even, if some of the reputed deals that Angel Lucy cut are true...

Cleaning and painting and renovating are all being quoted for the new apartment which is interesting because, for once, someone else will be doing all that work, my not really being up for it at the moment.

Packing and moving preparations are breathing hotly down our necks, wondering when they get to bask in our attention... (soon, soon...)

The new apartment will be bigger and will have easier guest facilities (for both guests and for us).

The trade-off for more space was a sacrifice of our lovely view--no more harbour view or park view or bird's-eye views of birds' eyes (raptors and prey, both).

And the new home is in an older apartment building.

And there will be no pool, gym, sauna, weight room, jacuzzi, putting green, outdoor patio, meeting rooms, function rooms, auxiliary computer room, or library in the new building, unlike in the current building.

*Sigh*

Also, no concierge.

Or cute conciergettes.

*Double sigh*

Nor will there be the Russian oligarch-chic foyer with black glass chandeliers from Murano, Philippe Starck designed floor lamps, stainless steel sculptures, slowly cycling, recessed rainbow lights, and naked men and women (sculptures, sadly) as door handles.

*Triple sigh*

Special note... that beautiful woman (the door handle on the right) fit wonderfully into one's palm.

Think Thumbelina, only sexier.

And the man was, always, when used, under my thumb.

Go figure. And, no, I won't say what part.

But, the rent is less and the space is more.

I suppose I ought to post photos of the old apartment, now that we are preparing to bid it a fond adieu.

Maybe that will be the next post.

After 3WW, of course.

Tschuess,

Chris

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2009 in review--Books

Books read in 2009... (reverse chronological order of books on completion of reading)

The First Emperor of China (Frances Wood)

Treason by the Book (Jonathan D. Spence)

Principia Ethica (G.E. Moore)

The Rights of Man (Thomas Paine)

Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (Jean Bottéro, translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop)

Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images (David Morgan)

The Historical Buddha: The Times, Life, and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism (H.W. Schumann, translated by M. O'C. Walshe)

Barbarians and Mandarins: Thirteen Centuries of Western Travellers in China (Nigel Cameron)

A Panorama of Ancient Chinese Architecture in Shanxi (Wang Senhao)

The Bomb: A Life (Gerard DeGroot)

Worlds Within: The Japanese Home (MK Shankar)

Adorning the Empress (May Holdsworth)

Bamboo (Trea Wiltshire)

The Long March Back (Peter Moss)

Art Nouveau (Mario Amaya)

Very Bad Deaths (Spider Robinson)

Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Jeffrey Burton Russell)

Mathematics in Art (Michael Holt)

Japanese Stencils (Rupert Faulkner)

Democracy: Past and Furture (Pierre Rosanvallon, edited and translated by Samuel Moyn)

Last Days of the Buddha [The Maha Parinibbana Sutta] (translated by Sister Vajira & Francis Story)

Neuruppiner Bilderboggen (Lisa Riedel)

Ludwigsburg: Geschter einer Stadt (Alke Hollwedel)

Otto Dix (Dietrich Schubert)

Die vier Ludwigsburger Literaten (Andrea Fix)

Ueberbrueckt: Aesthetische Moderne und Nationalsozialimus Kunsthistoriker un Kuenstler 1925-1937 (Eugen Blume, Dieter Scholz)

Cathedral of our Lady Strasbourg (Dr. Hugo Schnell, Dr. Johannes Steiner)

A Collection of Works by David Gerrold: The Involuntary Human (David Gerrold)

Tides of War (Steven Pressfield)

Stained-Glass Windows: Strasbourg Cathedral (Simon Schultz, Jean-Baptiste Ritt)

Otto Dix: Zwischer Paradies und Unterfanf (Dieter Buchhart, Hartwig Knack)

Neuruppin: In alten Alben geblaettert (Hansjoerg Albrecht)

The Pregnant King (Devdutt Pattanaik)

Gorgias (Plato, translated by Walter Hamilton)

The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner)

The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia (Frances Wood)

The Essence of Tao (Pamela Ball)

Hieronymus Bosch (Walter S. Gibson)

Shuang Lin Si Cai Su ()

Pingyao China (Zhang Guo Tian)

The Ancient City of Pingyao (Shao Heng, translated by Ren Ying)

Longmen Grotto (Liu Jing Long)

Jacquard's Web: How a hand loom led to the birth of the information age (James Essinger)

The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe (Valerie Flint)

Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong (Elizabeth Sinn)

Buddhism in China (Ling Haicheng, translated by Jin Shaoqing)

Islam in China (Mi Shoujiang & You Jia, translated by Min Chang)

History of Tibetan Religion -- A Study in the Field (Li An-Che)

Thangka Paintings: An Illustrated Manual of the Tibetan Epic Gesar (Jambian Gyamco, translated by Zhou Aiming)

Principles and Elements of Medieval Church Architecture in Western Europe (Michel Henry-Claude, Laurence Stefanon, Yannick Zaballos: translated by Beryl Degans)

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Ann Fadiman)

Towards the Light: The Story of the the Struggles for Liberty & Rights that made the Modern West (A.C. Grayling)

Spinoza Selections (Baruch Spinzoa, edited by John Wild)

The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse (Kai-wing Chow)

The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History (Jeffrey Burton Russell)

The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Jeffrey Burton Russell)

The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard (Frances Wood)

Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880 (Christopher Munn)

Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao (Paul French)

Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy (Chandradhar Sharma)

Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Charles Bukowski)

Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China (Stevan Harrell, editor)

Folk Customs at Traditional Chinese Festivals (Foreign Languages Press)

Paper Joss: Deity Worship Through Folk Prints (Wang Shucun)

China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (Ronald G. Knapp)

Mountain Folks in Yunnan: Selected Photographs of Wu Jialin (Wang Zhiping, Deng Qizao, and Xiao Jingzhi)

A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong: Cambodia, Laos, and Yunnan (Louis Delaporte and Francis Garnier, translated by Walter E.J. Tips)

Will the boat sink the water? The Life of China's Peasants (Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, translated by Zhu Hong)

The Baisha Frescoes in Lijiang County (Li Xi)

Hunting and Rituals: Treasures from the Ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan (Various Writers, Hong Kong Museum of History and Cultural Department of Yunnan Province)

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang (Zhao Ziyang, tranlstated by Bao Pu, Renee Chang, and Adi Ignatius)

Cassell's World History of Warfare (Holger Herwig, Christon Archer, Timothy Travers, and John Ferris)

The Penguin Book of Great Military Writing (John Keegan)

The Dictionary of Battles (David Chandler)

Chinese Chess for Beginners (Alex Liu)

The Master of Go (Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker)

On War (General Carl von Clausewitz, translated by Colonel J.J. Graham)

The Arthashastra (Kautiliya, translated and rearranged by L.N. Rangarajan)

The Art of War (Sun Tzu, translated by Ralpgh D. Sawyer)

Go Rin No Sho [The Book of Five Rings] (Miyamoto Mushashi, translated by Victor Harris)

Icônes (Jean Marcadé, Christophe Walter)

The Origins of Christian Art (Michael Gough)

Impressionism (Phoebe Pool)

The Six Day War of 1899: Hong Kong in the Age of Imperialism (Patrick H. Hase)

Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture (Dagyab Rinpoche)

Earth, Air, Fire and Custard (Tom Holt)

Paint Your Dragon (Tom Holt)

Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft (Ivon A. Donnelly)

Fleet of Worlds (Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)

Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art (Issam El-Said, Ayse Parman)

Public Success, Private Sorrow: The Life and Times of Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor (1857-1938), China Customs Commissioner and Pioneer Translator (Isidore Cyril Cannon)

After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines (Benito J. Legarda, Jr.)

Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley (Geoffrey Charles Emerson)

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (from the 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom Von Igelfeld Trilogy) (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (from the 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom Von Igelfeld Trilogy) (Alexander McCall Smith)

Portugese Irregular Verbs (from the 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom Von Igelfeld Trilogy) (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbolism and Motifs (Robert Beer)

Ballads of a Cheechako (Robert W. Service)

Watching over Hong Kong: Private Policing 1841-1941 (Sheilah E. Hamilton)

A Path of Hope: An Autobiography (Lech Walesa)

Kunst und Geschichte: Altertum (H. Luckenbach)

Taj Mahal (Heera Nand Aswani)

Wordsworth & Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (edited by R.L. Brett and A.R. Jones)

Guide to the Summer Palace (Administration Office of the Summer Palace)

Kenopanisad (anonymous, one of the Upanishads, the body of Vedic liturgical and moral literature)

The Print in the North, The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden)

Ravenne, Un Guide Artistique (Antonio Paolucci)

Gai Institutiones (Institutes of Roman Law by Gaius) (Gaius, translated by Edward Poste)

Corpus Iurus Civilis: Institutiones (The Institutes of Justinian from the Body of Civil Law) (Tribonian, translated by John Baron Moyle)

The Law of the Sea (R.R. Churchill, A.V. Lowe)

Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Olufemi Elias)

Modern Treaty Law and Practice (Anthony Aust)

Wings of Fire, an autobiography (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari)

Treasures of Indian Art: Germany's Tribute to India's Cultural Heritage (Raffael Dedo Gadebusch, Regina Hickmann, Heino Kottkamp, & Marianne Yaldiz))

The Journey of a Moment in Time... Rhagu Rhai, A Retrospective (Michael E. Hoffman, François Hébel, Norman Hall, & Raghu Rai)

Symbolism and Geometry in Indian Art (Rupika Chawla)

Treasury of Indian Tales (Shankar)

Tales from Indian Classics (Savitri)

Petit Guide de Rome pour les Pèlerins du Vingt-cinquième Jubilé (Edité par le Bureau de Presse du Comité Central de l'Année Sainte)

Elephanta (George Michell)

The Story of India (Michael Wood)

An Autobiography or The Story of my experiments with truth (Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi translated by Mahadev Desai)

Rediscovering Gandhi (Yogesh Chadha)

Environmental Health Policy (David Ball)

Environmental Epidemiology (edited by Paul Wilkinson)

Medical Anthropology (Robert Pool and Wenzel Geissler)

Global Change and Health (edited by Kelly Lee and Jeff Collin)

Controlling Communicable Disease (Norman Noah)

Issues in Public Health (edited by Joceline Pomerleau and Martin McKee)

Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems (Edited by G.D.H. & M.I. Cole)

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969

L'Europe del diritto commune (The Common Legal Past of Europe: 1000-1800) (Manlio Bellomo translated by Lydia G. Cochrane)

European Legal History (O.F. Robinson, T.D. Fergus, and W.M. Gordon)

The Chinese: Lu Yuanmin Photographs (Editors Li Mei and Yuan Yi-zhong)

The Chinese: Liu Zheng Photographs (Editors: Li Mei and Yuan Yi-zhong)

Forbidden City (Frances Wood)

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The True Story of a Forgotten Hero in Wellington's Army (Mark Urban)

Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique (Chiang Yee)

The Aeneid of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro "Virgil" verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum)

Beijing Hutong 101 Photos: The vanished or vanishing Beijing (Xu Yong)

Old Hong Kong: 1860 - 30 June 1997 (Trea Wiltshire)

Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (Paul Theroux)

Passing Shadows: Hong Kong (Peter Moss)

A Sense of Place: Hong Kong West of Pottinger Street (Edited by Veronica Pearson and Ko Tim-keung)

City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (Greg Girard, Ian Lambot)

The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912 (Jean Mailey)

Clonmacnois (Kenneth MacGowan)

Gamla Uppsala from ancient to modern time (Tore Littmarck)

Heliga Birgitta (Saint Birgitta) (Bengt Z Norström translated by Tord Harlin)

Medeltidsmalningarna i Gamla Uppsala kyrka (The mediaeval paintings in the church of Old Uppsala) (Bengt Z Norström translated by Tord Harlin)

Along the Royal Roads to Angkor (Yoshiaki Ishizawa)

Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (Dawn Rooney)

Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Aeschylus translated and with an introduction by Richard Lattimore)

Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts (Timothy D. Sisk)

The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (Artyom Borovik)

The Penguin Book of the Middle Ages (Morris Bishop)

Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight) (Antal Szerb translated by Len Rix) (Utterly fantastic novel)

Tehanu (Ursula LeGuin) (Read aloud! The experiment continues... eventually she'll agree to listen to Pardise Lost...)

Einhard and Notker the Stammerer: Two Lives of Charlemagne (Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, translated (and an introduction) by Lewis Thorpe)

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (unknown author, translated (and an introduction) by C.W.R.D. Moseley)

The Nasty Bits (Anthony Bourdain)

Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)

Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

Xi'an, Shaanxi and the Terracotta Army (Paul Mooney, Catherine Maudsley, Gerald Hatherly)

The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (Colin McEvedy)

China Baoji (Zhao Yaping)

The Farthest Shore (Ursula LeGuin) (Read aloud! The experiment continues... eventually she'll agree to listen to Pardise Lost...)

The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (Colin McEvedy)

The Silent Landscape: In the wake of HMS Challenger 1872-1876 (Richard Corfield)

Thomas Telford (L.T.C. Rolt)

The Chi Lin Nunnery: A Tang Dynasty Timber Monastery (Chi Lin Nunnery)

In Your Dreams (Tom Holt)

Faust Among Equals (Tom Holt)

Flying Dutch (Tom Holt)

The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols (Robert Beer)

Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)

Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather (Gao Xingjian translated by Mabel Lee)

Shadrach (Meindert De Jong)

Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World (Phil Borges)

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Roald Dahl)

The Law of the Sea: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea from the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea)

Articles of Agreement: International Monetary Fund (International Monetary Fund)

being caribou (Karsten Heuer)

The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Stanley S.K. Kwan with Nicole Kwan) (Yes, Stanley is the gentleman who created the Hang Seng Index...)

Manual on International Courts and Tribunals (Philippe Sands, Ruth Mackenzie, Yuval Shany)

International Dispute Settlement (4th Ed.) (J.G. Merrills)

Exploring Traditional Chinese Festivals in China (Gai Guoliang)

hardboiled / hard luck (Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich)

Down all the days (Christy Brown)

Giovanni Boccaccio (British Library Reference Division)

A Chinese Garden Court: The Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Alfreda Murck, Wen Fong))

Stained Glass (Michael Archer)

Cheung Chau Dog Fancier's Society (Alan B. Pierce)

Indigenous Peoples in International Law (S. James Anaya)

Chinese Fairy Tales (Jeanyee Wong)

The Ascent of Nanda Devi (Harold William Tilman)

Robert Service Under the Spell of the Yukon (Enid Mallory)

Colour in Early Russian Icon Painting (Mikhail Alpatov)

Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (James Steele, editor)

Trésor de l'Egypte par Samivel (Samivel)

Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation (Robert L. Fleming, Jr., Dorje Tsering, and Liu Wulin)

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (Paul Cartledge)

Saint Mark: The Life and the Mosaics (Antonio Niero)

L'art ornamental: Mosaïques de Saint-Marc a Venise (Sergio Bettini)

The Potala (Tibetan Administrative Office of the Potala)

Protectionism (Jagdish Bhagwati)

Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation (Saskia Sassen)

Le Foie gras (Elvira Masson)

Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

To End A War (Richard Holbrooke)

The Great Wall (John Man)

Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)

The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula LeGuin) (Read aloud, an experiment in progress...)

Art and Architecture Venice (Marion Kaminski)

The Gift of Rain (Tan Twan Eng)

Experimental Travel (Rachael Antony & Joël Henry)

The Emperor of Scent (Chandler Burr)

Roman Law in European History (Peter Stein)

2009 in review--CDs (too commercial?)

CDs bought in 2009... (reverse chronological order bought)

Run-D.M.C. (Raising Hell)

Run-D.M.C. (Tougher Than Leather)

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (The Message)

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Gradmaster Flash v. The Sugarhill Gang)

Louis Prima (Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang 1937-39)

Mumford & Sons (Sigh No More)

Athlete (Black Swan)

Tegan & Sara (Sainthood)

Eight Seconds (Almacantar)

MARRS [M/A/R/R/S] (Pump Up the Volume)

Various Artists (Classic Hip Hop Mastercuts Volume 1)

Young MC (Stone Cold Rhymin')

The KLF (Chill Out)

Various Artists (Mastercuts - Classic Funk Volume 2)

Various Artists (Street Corner: Ska Classics and Original Rude Boy)

Various Artists (Acid Flashbacks Volume 1)

Monsters of Folk (Monsters of Folk)

Sufjan Stevens (Come On Feel the Ilinoise!)

Sufjan Stevens (Seven Swans)

Various Artists (Twilight Saga: New Moon)

Arlo Guthrie (Alice's Restaurant)

The Littlest Viking (Labor & Lust)

Mika (The Boy Who Knew Too Much)

Mika (Live at Sadler's Wells)

Lin You Er, Gu Qin / Yao Gong Bai, Gu Qin (The Crying Crane in the Marsh)

Kronos Quartet featuring Cristina Branco (Kronos Quartet: Cristina Branco)

Metro Station (Metro Station)

Madonna (Celebration)

Nine Inch Nails (The Slip)

Crowded House (Four Seasons in One Day)

Crowded House (Temple of Low Men)

Crowded House (Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House)

Various Artists (I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen)

Morrissey (Southpaw Grammar)

Morrissey (Beethoven Was Death)

Cowboy Junkies (Lay It Down)

Cowboy Junkies (Miles From Our Home)

Cowboy Junkies (The Caution Horses)

Cowboy Junkies (200 More Miles: Live Performances 1985-1994)

Cowboy Junkies ('Neath Your Covers: Part 1 [EP])

Various Artists (Radio 1 Live Lounge 3)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit (Funky ABBA)

Arctic Monkeys (Humbug)

Herbert Groenemeyer (Spruenge)

Morrissey (The World of Morrissey)

Various Artists (Sundown - Music for Unwinding)

Morrissey featuring Siouxsie (Interlude Featuring Siouxsie)

Joe Dassin (Intégrale Albums)

Koxie (Koxie)

Crowded House (Crowded House)

Groove Armada (Goodbye Country, Hello Nightclub)

Francis Cabrel (Fragile)

Blur (Modern Life is Rubbish)

Madness (Divine Madness)

Morrissey (Live at Earl's Court)

Morrissey (Years of Refusal)

The House of Love (The House of Love)

Luka Bloom (The Acoustic Motor Bike)

Luka Bloom (Turf)

Belleruche (Turntable Soul Music)

Bloc Party (Silent Alarm)

The Lilac Time (Looking for a Day in the Night)

The Lilac Time (Paradise Circus)

Sophie Hunger (Monday's Ghost)

Luka Bloom (Riverside)

Belleruche (The Express)

Moby (Hotel)

Guy Chadwick (Lazy, Soft, & Slow)

Pet Shop Boys (Release)

Regina Spektor (Far)

Frane Miličinski-Ježek [Frane Milicinski-Jezek] (Balada O Koščku Kruha [The Ballad of the Slice of Bread])

Chris Isaak (Mr. Lucky)

Heidi Happy (Flowers, Birds, and Home)

Eels (Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire)

Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)

Pete Doherty (Grace/Wastelands)

Jason Mraz (We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.)

J.S. Bach / Cantatas (Eliot Gardiner, Conductor / The English Baroque Soloists / The Monteverdi Choir)

Bach / St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matthäus Passion) (La Passion selon saint Matthieu) / Harnoncourt (Christoph Prégardien/Matthias Goerne/Christine Schäfer/Dorothea Röschmann/Bernarda Fink/Elisabeth von Magnus/Michael Schade/Markus Schäfer/Dietrich Henschel/Dietrich Henschel/Widmer/Nikolaus Harnoncourt,Cond/Concentus Musicus Wien / Arnold Schoenberg Chor)

Bach / Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 / St. John Passion, BWV 245 / Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Eliot Gardiner, Conductor / The Monteverdi Choir / The English Baroque Soloists)

Bach / St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matthäus Passion) (La Passion selon saint Matthieu) / Klemperer (Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Sopr. & Pilate's wife/Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, Jesus/Peter Pears, Evangelist/Christa Ludwig, Contr./Nicolai Gedda, Tenor/Walter Berry,Bass&Peter/JohnCase,Judas/Otakar Kraus,H.Pries/Otto Klemperer, Cond/Philharmonia Orchestra&Chorus)

Bach / Sonatas (Viktoria Mullova, Violin / Ottavio Dantone, Harpsichord, Organ)

Bach / Violin Concertos (Akiko Suwanai, Violin / The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe / Alexander Janiczek, Musical Leader)

J.S. Bach / Masterpieces for Solo Piano (James Friskin, Piano)

J.S. Bach / Masterpieces for Solo Piano (James Friskin, Piano)

Bach / The Cello Suites (Stephen Isserlis, Cello)

Bach / Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001 -1006 (Thomas Zehetmair, Violin)

Bach / Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo (John Holloway, Baroque Violin)

Bach / Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin / Suites for Solo Cello / Petit Livre d'Anna Magdalena Bach (Johanna Martzy, Violin / János Starker, Cello)

Reger / Schubert / Schumann / Eduard Erdmann (Eduard Erdmann, Piano / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Hans Rosbaud, Conductor)

Korngold / Sibelius / Sinding / Violin Concertos (Itzhak Perlman, Violin / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / André Previn, Conductor)

Mozart / Great Piano Concertos (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano / Philharmonia Orchester)

Mozart / Violin Concertos No. 1, No. 2 & No. 4 / Adagio in E (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin / Philharmonia Orchestra / Riccardo Muti, Conductor / Academy Of St. Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor)

Mozart / Für Nannerl (Klavierkonzerte zu zwei und vier handen) (Compositions for two and four hands) (Wolfgang Brunner, Hammerflügel (Harpsichord), Cembalo (Piano) / Leonore Von Stauss, Hammerflügel (Harpsichord), Cembalo (Piano))

Bach / The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II / Inventions and Sinfonias / The Goldberg Variations / (Le Clavier bien tempéré /Inventions et Sinfonia /Les Variations Goldberg)(Das Wohltemperierte Klavier /Inventionen/Sinfonien/Die Goldberg Variationen) (Helmut Walcha, Harpsichord)

Bach / Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) (Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel, Music Director)

Bach / The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Le Clavier bien tempéré, Livre 2) (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Teil 2) (Daniel Barenboim, Piano)

Bach / The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Le Clavier bien tempéré, Livre 1) (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Teil 1) (Daniel Barenboim, Piano)

Bach / Viola Da Gamba Sonatas (Daniel Müller-Schott, Cello / Angela Hewitt, Piano)

Bach / Telemann / Oboe and Oboe d'amore Concertos (Paul Goodwin, Oboe, Oboe d'amore / The King's Consort / Robert King, Director)

The Police (The Police)

Singles (Travis)

Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions (Stan Getz)

Jazz Samba Encore (Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa)

Echo & The Bunnymen (Ocean Rain)

Gould & Lipatti play Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (Gould, recorded 1955) / Partita BWV 825, Chorale Prelude BWV 599, BWV 639, Siciliana from Sonata No. 2 for flute & cembalo (Lipatti, recorded 1950)

Bach / Violin Concerto, BWV 1052 / Double Concertos (Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin)

Respighi / Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Rossiniana (JoAnn Falletta, Conductor / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)

Soup: The Best Of The Beautiful South & The Housemartins (The Beautiful South & The Housemartins)

Getz/Gilberto (Stan Getz & João Gilberto)

Tabla Solo (Latif Ahmed Khan, Tabla)

Best of Armenian Folk Music (Richard Hagopian, Ud & Vocals)

Mystic Songs from India (Bauls Of Bengal)

Persian Nights - Traditional (Persian) Folk Music From Iran (Zohreh Jooya, Vocals)

Great Masters & Masterpieces Of Suona (Guo Ya Zhi, Suona / Song Bao Cai, Suona / Zhou Dong Chao, Suona)

劉天華百年誕辰珍藏版 (Liu Tian Hua, 100th Anniversary Memorial CD) (劉天華, 二胡 (Liu Tian Hua, Erhu) / 王國潼, 二胡 (Wang Guo Tong, Erhu))

閒居吟 (Erhu Chant) (于紅梅 (Yu Hong Mei, Erhu))

Great Masters & Masterpieces Of Erhu (Min Hui Fen, Erhu (閔惠芬) / Yu Hong Mei, Erhu (于紅梅) / Zhao Han Yong, Erhu (趙寒陽) / Jiang Jian Hua, Erhu (姜建華))

古琴獨奏 (Masters and Masterpieces of GuQin) (龔一(Gong Yi, Guqin) / 李祥霆 (Li Xiang Ting, Guqin))

中國揚琴演奏之五 (Music of Chinese Yang Qin, Vol. 5) (瞿冰心 (Kui Bing-Sum, Yangqin))

Stan Getz & João Gilberto (Getz/Gilberto)

Soup: The Best Of The Beautiful South & The Housemartins (The Beautiful South & The Housemartins)

Bach / Violin Concerto, BWV 1052 / Double Concertos (Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin)

Gould & Lipatti play Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (Gould, recorded 1955) / Partita BWV 825, Chorale Prelude BWV 599, BWV 639, Siciliana from Sonata No. 2 for flute & cembalo (Lipatti, recorded 1950) (Glenn Gould, Piano / Dinu Lipatti, Piano)

Ocean Rain (Echo & The Bunnymen)

3 (Nouvelle Vague)

wait for me (Moby)

Follow the Lights (Ryan Adams & the Cardinals)

Demolition (Ryan Adams)

Heartbreaker (Ryan Adams)

Sexy as Hell (Sarah Connor)

Icky Thump (The White Stripes)

样怪样嘻 (Chinese Hip Hop Rock from Yunnan) (和德华)

Quiet and Deep Horsehead Chinese Violin 情深馬蘭頭 QingshenMatouQin (敖特根巴雅爾)

Toru Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, Spirit Garden, Dreamtime (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Alsop, Conductor)

Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea, Rain Tree, Rain Spell, Bryce (Robert Aitken, Flute / Toronto New Music Ensemble)

Tarentule-Tarentelle (Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua, Conductor)

Shostakovich Schnittke Cello Concertos (Alban Gerhardt, Cello / Steven Osborne, Piano)

Trompette de Cour (Wolfgang Basch, Trumpet / Chamber Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Leo Krämer, Conductor / Bamberger Symphoniker, Marc Andreae, Conductor)

Organ Recital (Ian Tracey)

古琴--廣陵琴韻 Guangling Qin Music (Vol. 5) (Liu Shao-Chun, Qin 劉少椿)

Support Your Megaman (Robert Tunstall)

Oh Mercy (Dead Heart Bloom)

In Chains (Dead Heart Bloom)

Fall In (Dead Heart Bloom)

The Best of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Rahat Fateh Ali Khan)

Dark Night of the Soul (Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, & David Lynch)

These Ideas Are Embarrassing (Robert Tunstall)

Miniatures (Robert Tunstall)

We Found The Right Machine (Robert Tunstall)

Instrumental (Robert Tunstall)

Das Racist EP (Das Racist)

T-Rex (Wallpaper)

Wallpaper. Remixes (Wallpaper)

Here is What is (Daniel Lanois)

Rockets (Daniel Lanois)

Hourglass (Dave Gahan)

My Name (Mélanie Pain)

Bande A Parte (Nouvelle Vague)

Paganini / 24 Caprices, Opus 1 (Itzhak Perlman)

Kingkortorbo Bimur (Bangla)

The Very Best of Mehdi Hassan (Mehdi Hassan)

Maya (Habib)

Sounds of the Universe (Depeche Mode)

Flavors of Entanglement (Alanis Morissette)

Junior (Röyksopp)

The Fame (Lady GaGa)

Coco (Colbie Caillat)

Chandni Chowk to China (Ramesh Sippy)

The Hazards Of Love (The Decembrists)

Yes, etc. (Pet Shop Boys)

En Attendant Les Caravanes (La Rue Kétanou)

Y'a Des Cigales Dans La Fourmiliere (La Rue Kétanou)

Ouvert À Double Tour (La Rue Kétanou)

Foul without Sparks (Unplugged) Мат Без Электричества (Leningrad Ленинград)

dance Raja dance (Vijaya Anand)

Invaders Must Die (The Prodigy)

The Crying Light (Antony and The Johnsons)

The Dynamic World of Yim Hok-man - Majestic Drums V 鼓王群英會 V - 閻學敏的鼓樂世界 (Hpd) (Yim Hok-man, Percussion (閻學敏) / Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

The Silk Road Fantasia Suite (Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

Encore (Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

Music For Tranquility Of Mind (Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

The Huqin World of Ngai Kwun-wa 魏冠華的胡琴世界 (Ngai Kwun-wa, Huqin (魏冠華) / Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Chew Hee-chiat, Conductor)

Love Concerto 情綿綿 (Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huicheng, Conductor 香港中槳團)

Soundscape (Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

The Wonderful Winds Of Guo Yazhi - The Suona Story 郭雅志的吹管世界 - 嗩吶傳奇 (Guo Yazhi, Suona 郭雅志 / Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra / Yan Huichang, Conductor)

Qin Concert Recital 梅梢月 (Li Fung-yun, Qin (李凤云) / Wang Jian-xin, Xiao)

Wumen Qin Music 吳門琴韻(上集) (Wumen School) (Wumen is Suzhou--Province of Wu is now Suzhou) (Wu Zhao-ji, Qin (anonymous) made in Song Dynasty (吳兆基))

Shu (Sichuan) Qin Music (Vol. 4) 蜀中琴韵（四） (Shu School, sometimes called Chuan School from Sichuan (formerly Bashu) founded between Sui Dynasty & Tang Dynasty) (Yu Shao-ze, Qin "Murmuring Jade" made by Wu Luo-Shu in 1948 (喻绍泽))

Li Xiang-Ting, Qin (Classical Guqin) (Li Xiang-Ting, Qin made by Zeng Cheng-wei in 1996)

Guanling Qin Music (Vol. 1) 廣陵琴韻(一) (Guanling School--Guanling is Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province and founded by Xu Chang-yu in the Qin Dynasty) (Zhang Zi-qian, on the Qin "Stormy Surges" made in the Ming Dynasty (張子謙))

Min (Fujian) River Qin Music (Chen Chang-Lin, on the Qin "The Bell of Duke JI")

Yaomen Qin Music 姚門琴韻 (Yao Bing-yan, Qin / Yao Gong-bai, Qin / Yao Gong-jing, Qin)

Wang Xinxin sings the Pu'an-zou Mantra in Nanguan Music (Pu'an-zou Mantra is the short form of the Pu’an Dade Chanshi Shitanzhang Shenzou (Sacred Siddham Mantra of Chan Master Pu’an Dade)) (普庵大德禪師釋談章) (Wang XinXin, Dizhi (Nanguan) (王心心))

Farewell my Emperor 昭君出塞 (Wang XinXin, Dizhi (Nanguan) (王心心))

Echoes in the Mountains 响山集 (Jin Wei, Guqin (金蔚))

Nostalgia in Moonlight 靜夜思 (Wang XinXin, Dizhi (Nanguan) (王心心))

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand)

No Line On The Horizon (U2)

Pop-Up (Yelle)

Merriweather Post Pavilion (Animal Collective)

Folie À Deux (Fall Out Boy)

TRICK (Koda Kumi 倖田來未)

It's Not Me, It's You (Lily Allen)

Chine: Le pêcheur et le bûcheron - Le qin, cithare des lettrés (Sou Si-Tai, Qin)

Day & Age (The Killers)

Vivaldi: Concertos For The Emperor (English Concert / Andrew Manze, Conductor)

Vivaldi: Sacred Music Vol. 10 (Choir of the King's Consort / The King's Consort / Carolyn Sampson, Joanne Lunn, Sopranos / Joyce Didonato, Tuva Semmingsen, Mezzo Sopranos / Robin Blaze, Countertenor / Hilary Summers, Contralto / Robert King, Conductor)

Little (Little)

David Cook (David Cook)

Avalanche (Matthew Good)

Hospital Music (Matthew Good)

Cardinology (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals)

A Hundred Million Suns (Snow patrol)

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Coldplay)

Ode To J. Smith (Travis)

Modern Guilt (Beck)

The Con (Tegan & Sara)

Live At Massey Hall (Matthew Good)

Tracing (Orchid Ensemble)

Peter and the Wolf narrated by Dame Edna Average (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Heart shaped world (Chris Isaak)

Salve Festa Dies: Gregorian Chant for Seasons of the Year (In Dulci Jubilo, Chorus / Alberto Turco, Conductor)

Bedbugs (Odds)

Best Of Bill Withers: Lean On Me (Bill Withers)

The Very Best of Al Green (Al Green)

Good Feeling (Travis)

Deniz Yildizi (Sezen Aksu)

Chet Baker In Paris, the Barclay Sessions 1955-1956 (Chet Baker)

Pêche à la Mouche (Django Reinhardt)

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Soprano / Helga Müller Molinari, Contralto / Vinson Cole, Tenor / Paata Burchuladze, Bass / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Vienna Singverein / Herbert Von Karajan, Conductor)

Gulag Orkestar (Beirut)

Proxima Estacion Esperanza (Manu Chao)