Focus on: H.E.R.’s Tiny Desk debut for NPR is a refreshingly bright, hearty dose understated virtuosity. Not to be missed.

New shares (third week of December, 2018): 1. V. Ullmann: Op. 25, No. 3, 2. Greg Grandin: On US policy and the Central American crisis, Democracy Now, 3. Massenet (Werther): Pourquoi me réveille, J. Kaufmann, 4. Jstor: Subversion in de Navarre’s Heptaméron, N. Frelick, 5. M. Moszkowzki, Piano concerto in E, Op. 59, 6. “To The King,” Christie’s, 7. The Ingenious Botanist in the Mountains of Tajikistan


Bonus: Currently taken (obsessed) with the wondrous Sutton Hoo Helmet.