I’ve been preoccupied with other hobbies, specifically wrestling right now. I’m going through a low spell for music; I used to listen to 1-2 albums a day just a year ago but now I’m lucky to hear that in a month. I went through a similar period through most of the 2010s before getting back into music as much as ever, so I have hope. It’s a shame because I recently got a high-end sound card and really good Klipsch bookshelf speakers that I’ve barely used except as television speakers (which they’re the only thing I use). My neighbors are pprobably glad that I seldom play Bruckner’s Fifth at volume sufficient to hear the quiet parts in a digital recording.

Bought in April:

Bach - Organ Works, Vol. 1 (Simon Preston)
Bach - Partitas for harpsichord (Trevor Pinnock)
Bach - Cantatas and Arias (Ian Bostridge)
Bach - Cantatas 105, 179, 186 (Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki)
Bach - Cantatas 80, 26, 116 (Mathis, Schmidt, Schreier, Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Richter)
Bach - Cantatas 50, 4, 82 (Fischer-Dieskau, Karl Richter)
Bach - Magnificat, Cantata 80 (Herreweghe)
Bach - Easter Oratorio, Ascension Oratorio (Rilling)
Bruckner - Symphony 3 (Barenboim)
Bruckner - Symphony 5 (Barenboim)
Bruckner - Symphony 7 (Barenboim)
Bruckner - Symphony 8; Wagner - Siegfried Idyll (Karajam)
Bruckner - Symphony 9 (Karajan)
Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke - Cello Sonatas (Frame)
Corelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 6 No. 1-6 (McGegan)
Dufay - The Virgin and the Temple: Chant & Motets (Pomerium)
Gesualdo - Fifth Book of Madrigals (Anthony Rooley)
Haydn - Missa Sanctae Caeciliae, Nikolaimesse, Missa brevis, Große Orgelmesse (Academy of Ancient Music)
Mozart - Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Banchini, Vesselinova)
Mozart - Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 (ibid)
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet, Horn Quintet, String Quintet K.516 (Aston Magna)
Schubert - Schwanengesang; Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge (Quasthoff)
R Strauss - Don Quixote (Ashkenazy)
R Strauss - Sinfonia Domestica, Macbeth (Maazel)
Wallace - Creation Symphony et al (Brabbins)
Various - La Renaissance Anglaise: Music in Early 17th Century England (Deller)

All this for $30 at the record store, if you’ll believe it.