Cheers!!

Oh, I've sung the alto solo too - and the second part of Laudamus Te...

Charles Mingus - just superb

Orbital performing 'Adnans'

Mike Oldfield : 'Portsmouth'

Blondie, Call Me

Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.2 in D Minor, Op.14

Erasure, Sometimes

The Ravel G major piano concerto played by Angela Hewitt and the BBC SO (for the second time, as katyjay and I were there live last Saturday and it is now being broadcast on Radio 3).

I was listening to that and thinking what a brilliant concert that would have been to go to. The piano concerto and "Tombeau". Lucky you. I shall be downloading it once it's gone up on iPlayer.

Hans Christian Lumbye, Champagne Galop

Soul II Soul : 'Back to Life'

Back to Reality?

Jean-Féry Rebel, Les Elemens, performed by the Palladian Ensemble

Indeed

I love this concerto. My orchestra are performing ti in the summer, although i won't be on the piano, as I have never played piano in my life.

The Beatles : 'Lady Madonna'...

nice one barry

I'm listening to the dishwasher. I reckon the beatles would be better.

Stone Roses, Fools Gold
[shouldn't there be an apostrophe somewhere in there??]

Aces High-Iron Maiden

I'm actually not a fan of Iron Maiden at all, but one of my best friends most definitely is, and hearing him play (seemingly!) every Maiden song in existence during music class today, I decided I'd better have a listen

Right now - Summer from the Kitchen Garden Suite played by Oldnotes and I earlier.

Before that - at the hash we made of some of the pieces today

Actually a number had good moments as well as the lesser ones.: Really good for letting us know what we need to work on and improve and also what is working. Most of these we hadn't played or practised very much since last year so it's useful.

Lynyrd-Skynyrd, Free Bird
(had to come up at some point didn't it?!)

WELCOME...... to the Pleasure Dome.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood!

Currently listening to ELP : Fanfare for the Common Man.

Woohoo, excellent. I remember some wooly old fool on the radio once saying "Copland would be turning in his grave". "Actually" I thought "he'd probably quite like it".

Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture

Faure - Cantique De Jean Racine

Copland would've been alive to hear it when that arrangement was new! I'm sure I read somewhere once that he did indeed like the ELP arrangement!

Sublime stuff!

Perfecto Fluoro

William Alwyn string quartet no.1 in D minor

Lang Lang on Radio 4. According to him there are currently 4 million Chinese children learning the piano and 2 million learning the violin or was it 40 million?

Crotchety Mum: There was a TV documentary a couple of years ago (The Red Piano? or somethihng like that). It reckoned that there could be as many as 80 MILLION Chinese children learning piano.

... and I am listening to Schubert's Bb sonata (D960) over and over, alternating Horowitz's version with Clara Haskil's - simultaneously working from incomplete and inconsistent specifications to fix bugs in badly crafted programs,

Mozart: "Great" Mass in C minor. Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

It was 60 million learning the piano and I *think* it was 20 million learning the violin!

John Taverner (that's the old one) sung by the choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh - fabulous new CD.

I thought it was 40 million (or even 60 million), and then when I wrote it down I couldn't believe that I'd really heard that number - it's so huge it's off the scale that I can imagine

Schumann, Widmung, performed by Arleen Auger and Dalton Baldwin.

Tony Penultimate "Soppy and the Sentimentals" Great stuff

Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries...

getting fired up!

String quintet in C major by Schubert.

Smile, Nat King Cole

Taras Bulba - I am playing it in orchestra and I really enjoyed learning it tonight.

"Lament of a Venerable Cat" by David W Solomons. It was in a Zip file of lots of MIDI files of organ pieces, found at SCPOP.de. It is playing via MIDI through the Free Version of Hauptwerk (I can't afford the full version, and have no MIDI console to play, so I practice registration on various free organs and MIDI files)

The Move : 'Fire Brigade'.

Driving over from Cheshire this morning on my iPod playlist I listened to Mozart Sonata for Paino and Violin K379, Prokofiev Piano Conc No 3, a Clementi Piano Sonata Op33 No1 , and some Arvo Part (shorter Choral pieces)

Have you got / heard the Arvo Part cd "Triodion' ?

I havent Maggie, my daughter bought me 2 Part CD's at Christmas but no that one , I really like his music, particularly the choral stuff.

If you feel like buying another, I recommend Triodion. My OH went up to HMV just before Christmas and came back with a random haul. This was one - it's Polyphony, Stephen Layton.

Has the following, in case you want to check for duplicates ...

Dopo la Vittoria, Nunc Dimittis, ...which was the Son of ..., I am the true vine, Littlemore Tractus, Triodion, My heart's in the Highlands, Salve Regina.

I love the Nunc Dimittis which I sang in choir about a year ago. ...which was the Son of... (yes, that is the title) is interesting: the first time I heard it it made me laugh - he could set the phone book to music this guy.

The only one I don't much like is My heart's in the Highlands - I usually love the countertenor voice but this particular piece doesn't really work for me. The rest of the CD I think is wonderful.

Also in the trawl from HMV were a couple of Eric Whitacre albums - fabulous too.

Eric Whitacre's A Boy and a Girl

Silver Girl, Fleetwood Mac I've had it stuck in my head all day, so came straight home and put it on!