Glenn Miller - Anvil Chorus - thanks to a post from Barry-clari on the teacher's forum

A Fleetwood Mac playlist of their touring setlist- I'm going to see them soon.

It's such a clever arrangement...*goes to listen to it again*

Beethoven's 5th. LSO/Haitink.

Thinking about that possible playday!!

Kalinnikov 1. It is a great symphony for string players, especially me as a 1st violinist.

Arvo Part's Nunc Dimittis

A Night To Remember : Shalamar

Driving over the M62 earlier I listened to Prokofievs 6th Piano Sonata (as I was inspired by 'Leeds' winner Sofya Gulaks semi final performance of it). The Nielsen 5th Symphony, and Liszt's B Minor Piano Sonata (Brendel)

Groove Armada, Fireside Favourite

I hesitate to confess to this but...The Stones' "Wild Horses" as sung by Susan Boyle
I only clicked on it out of morbid curiosity as I couldn't quite fit Mick Jagger and Susan Boyle into the same mental picture but actually it's very good...

My sister singing. I really shouldn't complain as she obviously enjoys singing, but it is getting on my nerves.

Osibisa, Sunshine Day

Miles Davis

Swan of Tuonela. Just magical, so haunting. But one of those pieces I have to ration myself on, I'm afraid that if I heard it too often it might start to lose the magic. It's almost one of those pieces that should always creep up on you unexpectedly, rather than being deliberately chosen!

In the same way, I really love Finzi's eclogue. But I wish I could rewind to the fourth or fifth time (very approx) I heard it - I'd heard it a few times on the radio a few times without thinking that much of it, then it began to get under my skin and one day I just realised how fabulous it was, the way it gradually unwinds and blossoms. After that I got a recording so could listen to it when I chose rather than it happening ot come on teh radio, and probably listened too much. I still love it, and having learned (just!) to play it I hear new things in it, but I'll never get that occasion back again. Really it needs to be autumn, early dawn, in the countryside to listen to it properly.

Just as for the Swan you should really be walking in a forest in Finland when you turn a corner and see a moonlit pond with a black swan on it.... um, hang on, that would probably mean you'd died according to folkore of Tuonela so probably not that great after all.

Sibelius is brilliant at writing nature into music. The trees, the wind..........

I did hear the Britten Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes on Radio 3 ( ) this morning. I reckon those are the very best seascapes, though I do particularly like the waves rolling in to the beach and just fading out right at the very end of Grimes.

Shakira - She Wolf

Listening to my grandfather singing.

Telemann recorder sonatas and fantasias performed by Frans Brüggen.

My son playing 'Dear Henry' on the recorder.

My son playing The Sea is Angry on the piano with huge passion and gusto and very little accuracy

My brother playing something on the saxomaphone (I don't know the piece so can't comment on its accuracy!)

Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary

The travel news. M25 is bad today around junction 16-17...

Kallinikov symphony 1. I am hoping it will put in the right mood for college today, but I dobt it.

Pet Shop Boys, Very

My brother trying to play Jerusalem on the piano...

Mendelssohn, Fingal's Cave

4'33

In this current performance, we have:

the bass hum of the nearby dual carriageway
random paper shuffling
the click click of a woman's heels on a wooden floor
the rat tat tat of me typing this piece
a woman talking on the phone
the phone slamming down

Martha Argerich plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major 1st mvt.
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The ticking of an egg timer. It's been driving me mad for the last hour.

Isn't that egg rock hard by now?

The cake is just about cooked.

Shouldn't you be packing instead of playing Delia Smith?

That's what I said to my mum, but no, cake had to be made now otherwise the bananas would go off. I spent the rest of the morning sorting through all my piano music to decide what to take with me and arranging it into an orderly pile, and I've located all my recorders' cases, so packing has now officially begun.

Are you making banana bread?
Lovely - one of my favourites. The good / bad thing about banana bread is that it goes stale quite quickly, so unfortunately you will have to eat it all within two days max. What a disaster!

I'll join the queue of willing volunteers if there's any left over!

It is banana bread. I've never seen one go stale though, they generally get eaten within a day or so.

Genesis, Seconds Out.

Oldie but Goodie

soirees musicales by rossini is coming out of the speakers right now...

Prelude to Act III of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Schumann

Shipping forecast on Radio 4. Had to get up early to see the wife off on her dog clipping course!

Focus : House of the King

My washing doing the final spin.

Snap - and the dishwasher also.
I am a domestic goddess

(those of you who actually know me, will realise how far from the truth that is )

Fixed *runs*

You are feeling brave today Sol...

My brother's having his piano lesson... doing Grade 4 sight-reading

The dog snoring gently - sirening somewhere between F and Middle C!