Radio 2 : Pick of the Pops. Currently the Brighouse and Rastrick Band with 'Floral Dance'

all I can say to that is

A complete coincidence that they decided to play the chart from December 1977!...

choir of All Saints Margaret Street recorded over 40 years ago.

The Merlin theme tune

Grade three piano exam pieces. Trying to choose what I fancy playing

Michael Bublé's take on Sway.

Arvo Part I am the true vine

Mahler 1 played by TYO, which i purchased earlier at our christmas concert. You can hardly tell it is a bunch of teenagers playing.

Leaving Hope by Nine Inch Nails. A true musical masterpiece for me. It has inspired many of my saddest and most heartbreaking novel scenes. Beautiful.

Bob Dylan : 'Must be Santa'. On Radio 2.

If you haven't heard this, go and listen. I guarantee it'll stick in your brain for days...

Polichinelle by Kreisler

Why Should I Worry from Oliver and Company

Midnight soul smooth jazz tribute album.

A Yorkshire version of While Shepherds Watched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PFoh9VJP8&NR=1

"The Pretender" - Foo Fighters. Chopin's Nocturnes before that.

Slade : 'Merry Xmas Everybody'

The Ronettes : 'Sleigh Ride'

Kings College nine lessons and carols (live) for Christmas eve.

Snap!

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/files/services/...essons-2009.pdf

Handel's Hercules ont' wireless.

Thanks for this

most welcome. A bit more stylish than the Radio Times! I didn't realise it was available online until 3.10 this afternoon.

The recording is now on BBC2

I've got that on too - although it's not identical to the one on radio, and I understand it's recorded at a different time, as much as two weeks earlier. Some of the carols are the same arrangements - I think the descant to 'Once in Royal' is new. O Holy Night wasn't on the 3pm one.

Swan Lake - it's on TV

Arvo Part sung by Polyphony.

The BBC Proms 2009 on BBC2 - just heard Sir Thomas Allen singing Gigi, what a wonderful baritone voice

I am listening to Russell Watson. Great voice.

Radio 2 : currently 'Bleeding Love', Leona Lewis.

Must listen to Pick of the Pops sometime this week : some good records on this week's playlist...

The BBC4 Christmas folk sessions (again), currently Bellowhead

"Crush" - Paul van Dyk

The Snowmen : 'Hokey Cokey'

Paul Hillier, Portrait

Ecce Beatem Lucem - the other forty-part (the one by Striggio).

'My favourite things' - my family are watching The Sound Of Music

mahler 5. Never knew a symphony to be so long............

canticles of ecstasy

what a great title!

someone told me it was a thumpin' house music album, but the 240 beats a minute haven't kicked in yet..........???????????

Solemn Melody - H. Walford Davies

Berio Sequenza VII for oboe. Played by Christian Schmitt. Recorded at the IDRS conference this year. Quite an intense performance.

choral evensong on radio 3

the monks of Solesmes singing plainsong

A bit of Vienna Philharmonic...

I want Radetsky, and I want it now

I have Radetsky!!!! *claps hands together very hard*

Impatient so an so, was there ever any doubt that you would get your wish?

My favourite is the Blue Danube and I always get my wish on New Year's Day too.

We always try to watch the VPO New Year. There were some pluses this year: Pretre's control of the audience at the pseudo-start of the Blue Danube and during the Radetsky come to mind; also the excellent ballet couple from Paris. The strings were up to their usual standard and I always admire the accuracy and smooth sound of the horn players on their single Vienna horns. In the Offenbach overture, the clarinets coped brilliantly with the usual absence of beat; somewhat less so the oboes and flutes. The siting of the high camera just behind a statue holding a lyre with kinked strings was slightly unfortunate, but the voyage down the Danube was beautiful.

Yes, I agree with you kenm, I thought Pretre was wonderful, he's fabulous with the orchestra but he can also controll the audience perfectly and with such small but perfect gestures. He's a delight to watch.

I always enjoy watching the dancers and the architecture.. it's all like a magical other world that can only be glimpsed (well by country bumpkins like me anyway) on New Year's Day.

I had forgotten just how huge continental rivers are compared to our British ones.

I wonder how much money you have to shell out to be a member of that audience.

I have been searching the Musikverein site for prices without success. I get the impression that if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Shaft : 'Roobarb and Custard'. On 'Pick of the Pops'.

It's hurting my ears...