Alan Parsons - I don't Wanna Go Home.

Nymphetamine-Cradle Of Filth

Do your recordings come with a health warning stamped across the front cover?


I'm listening to the Suite Changing Moods by Christopher Steel which ends with Dancing Toccata, so at least there's one word with which Fran*Piano can identify!

(EDIT: Just noticed that the number of my posts is 3010. A certain generation will recognise 0.3010 as 'log 2'. )

Nah, there's only a health warning if you're in the cradle, with I'm fortunately a bit big for!

The Proms - Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - one of the first piano concerto scores I ever bought. I just couldn't believe that the whole thing was just being played with one hand, so had to see the score for myself; the local library didn't have a copy, so I was forced to buy the score - the start of my collection!

I loved the performance. I'm not a pianist but maybe I'd give my right arm to be able to play like that.

Caroline-Fleetwood Mac

National Youth Orchestra's offering at the Proms on tv at the moment. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

Saw it in the flesh a couple of weeks ago.

Splendid weren't they?

Black Summer-Yashin

Yes, excellent - and all those harps and double basses!

7 oboes too.

Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band : A Fifth of Beethoven. I think Beethoven would've approved...

Radio 3's Private Passions with David Hyde Pierce (Niles Crane from Frasier).

Brahms' Rhapsody In G Minor, played by Martha Argerich

Shock, horror! Something I actually recognize!

I had wondered whether to learn this for my recent Diploma attempt, but Liszt won over I'm afraid.

A recording of a favourite of mine, Luciano Berio's Sinfonia

I adore this, it's definitely one of my "play before I die" pieces-quite a motivation!

Andy Scott/Sax Assault : 'Lip Service'

Fall From Grace-Stevie Nicks

More Proms.

What am I going to do when the season ends?...

There's always Cardiff the following weekend!

Don't go all cold turkey on us!


I am listening to the Bach Trio Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525 - 530 played on the organ of the St. Jacobi-Kirche in Hamburg by Ton Koopman.

Of course That takes care of that weekend!



As if I would

A boxed set I found in the shed at the weekend called Easy Listening with Bert Kaemfert and James Last.

Gauntanamera, Wimoweh, Havah Nagilah...

It's brilliant, I never realised my parents had such great taste in music.

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle , the lion sleeps tonight....."

Now I understand why I enjoy world music. JL even does Greensleeves.

Jerusalem on High: Victorian Voluntaries and Concert Pieces for Organ based on hymns, chorales and psalm-tunes, played by Graham Barber on the Organ of Tewkesbury Abbey.

Temptation-Cradle Of Filth

Trois Preludes et Fugues Op.99 by Saint-Saens, played on the organ of Tewkesbury Abbey by Adrian Partington.

Mozart, and lots of it - I'm watching Amadeus

The Boys Of Summer-Don Henley

Gives me chills, everytime

Freddy Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, Barcellona, and yelling along with it to upset the neighbors.

Theo

The soundtrack to the movie "Once". It won an oscar for best original song in a movie, a non-flashy, real, and simply delightful movie!

The music is really easy to improvise to on the piano.

I'm listening right now to John Ireland's slow movement from his Piano concerto.

to the forums!

I'm currently listening to 'Sledgehammer' by Peter Gabriel. Who remembers the video?

Gosh, yes - quite a legend, that one!

Indeed. Excellent. Aardman Animations.

Trois Pieces by Ibert, played on the organ of St.Ouen in Rouen, by Gerard Brooks.

Poulenc Oboe Sonata - Emily Pailthorpe.

Today, as yesterday, I've been listening to TMS.

I'm listening to it too, oddly enough

A fellow cricket lover how exciting

I'm not a particular follower, I don't feel the need for Sky in order to watch Test Matches, but TMS is the voice of the summer and radio does allow you to carry on with other things - albeit not playing the piano! This particular match however, has been well worth following, at least from an England point of view. The fact that it has managed to keep me from the piano over the last couple of days means that it has done its job, to entertain!

Bat Out Of ######-Meat Loaf

EDIT:Okay, I did not see that one being moderated!! Fair enough.

For the annual school 'Activities Week' one member of staff always combined two activities, ice-skating and swimming - one in the morning, then the other in the afternoon. It was very popular and at least to start with it appeared to be chosen by all the more challenging pupils, shall we say. I likened it to a St.Trinian's outing!

For some time now and possibly back then, that has been an unfair assessment, to be honest, but one thing he did do was invite children to bring to the front of the coach cassette-tapes of music to put on during the journey to the venues. So, next to the driver there would accumulate this stack of tapes.

I went along on several occasions, to help out with staff supervision and also because although I don't ice-skate (heaven forbid), I do like a swim.

One of his own favourites on the journey, which he always played, was indeed 'Bat Out of ****', which to me seemed most appropriate!

William Harris - Faire is the Heav'n

Organ works by Alexandre-Perre-Francois Boely, played on the organ of St.Pierre, Douai, France by Gerard Brooks.

However, I'm about to switch to Radio 4 and a programme entitled: Norn But Not Forgotten: Sounds of Shetland - a distinctive dialect spoken in Shetland.

a truly hideous rendition of the star spangled banner for the moto-gp

From the same CD, the First Arabesque by Debussy (yes, that one, the one composed for piano). It actually sounds quite good, making use of the Flute harmonique stop. it's not a transcription, just a straight transfer using the colours of the organ and the swell pedals.

Time Lord Rock, or Trock - songs about doctor who! It's good, honest!
Good example: http://www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoo...u/3/fmGHAl8j5b0