The prom on telly - recreation of the 1910 Last Night

The Chain-Fleetwood Mac
My dad once mis-quoted the lyrics to this as "If you don't love me now, s** off, don't go making a blooming song and dance about it!" I still can't listen to it without giggling

Radio 3: Mahan Esfahani playing Bach on a harpsichord: first, two movements from J.S.Bach's Goldberg Variations then a piece by his elder brother, Johann Christophe.

You and me both. The alternative is Big Brother...

No! Not an alternative under any circumstances.

I'll rephrase. There's Big Brother on Channel 4, but listening to a Boeing 747 take off is more pleasureable...

Not too many 747s around here, although RAF Fairford isn't that far away and there are always plenty of vapour trails to be seen criss-crossing the skies in the morning, on a clear day.

Must've just missed it
I'm definitely hearing a gravicembalo, not a clavicembalo!
But Montiverdi Vespers at the Proms just starting.

Can you get iPlayer in Costa Rica?

Nevertheless,



Yes indeed! It has my vote, so I'll defer a further piano practice in favour of Monteverdi's mellifluous tones.

Yes, but only for radio, not TV. Can't get Channel 4 or anything else from the UK either so I couldn't Orchestra United...
I'm hearing Radio3 live right now (sitting at work, supposed to be on my lunch break)... says my bandwith isn't good enough for streaming but it's working just fine

At least that's something

Just finished. Wonderful!

Dr Who at the Proms ... my husband has it on in the background. I don't quite get it ..... Is it all music that has been on Dr Who or what? (I could be being amazingly dense here .....)

More or less, yes. With actors and suchlike live on stage, including Matt Smith. There are also screens showing relevant Dr Who clips

I knew about the actors, clips etc I just wasn't sure of the music and it's relevance. Looks quite good.

Was very very good I love Dr. Who

now listening to my neighbour scraping wallpaper off our dividing wall suppose he's getting even for my nasty violin noises this morning

Bill Evans' Danny Boy piano solo and some random sound from TV

Karg-Elert's Chorale Improvisation on 'Wachet Auf!' played on the organ of Norwich Cathedral by Paul Derrett.

Last Night of the Proms

Ditto!

I especially want to hear the Vaughan-Williams suite for Viola and Small Orchestra, but Rene Fleming's holding the fort admirably!

Why can't I hear Wagner's bridal march without singing "Here comes the bride ...... " etc.

Did anyone hear barry-clari singing You'll Never Walk Alone?

I ask you, Proms in the Park and football chants; he must have been in seventh heaven!

Maxim Rysanov playing Suite For Viola from last night's Proms

The Vaughan-Williams was most interesting. Did you also hear Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations played on viola - great stuff!

Was that the second piece he played immediately after the Vaughan-Williams? If so, yes!

Guns N' Roses..

Piano Sonata in a D.537 by Schubert played by Alfred Brendel.

Herbert Howells - after the ebullience of the Fourth Rhapsody for Organ, I have been playing through his Six Pieces for Organ, these played on the organ of Hereford Cathedral by Graham Barber. There's just the Paean to go, then I'll probably switch composers. William Mathias perhaps.

Blooddrunk-Children Of Bodom

It was very creepy, I was researching the biochemistry of the blood when it came on...

Well, I have bypassed our Welsh friend Mathias and climbed up into the organ loft to play a Cavaille-Coll instrument in the Basque country. The start of a journey through the ten organ symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor, played by Ben van Oosten.

choral evensong from Worcester cathedral on radio 3.

Recorder-Radio.com

Naturally I am suitably attired in my duffle coat with my hairy ankles on show.

Recorder-Bag x

Now I would have done too, had my mother not been on the phone!

Yes, a whole Choral Evensong can be performed/accomplished in the time that it takes her to divest herself of all the family news! Remember Mrs Honeyman from Camberwick Green?

You need to train your mum better! My mum is a complete addict. In fact, Lord forbid anyone phone either of my parents during Choral Evensong!

Before my Dad became a District Chairman in the Methodist Church, he had a post as a Superintendant Minister in Eastbourne, on the East Sussex coast. He decided to devote Saturday afternoons to 'visiting' i.e. going to church members' homes to visit them, especially if they had been poorly. He wondered why he was getting such short shrift, until he realised that these 'little old ladies' were all intent on watching the wrestling on World of Sport and when Dad popped round they were switching off their sets in order to answer the door, peeved at missing out on shouting at the screen, knitting-needles in hand!

Some Emma Johnson Music from Voyage on We7

And now "Walk like an Egyptian" - on my husband's We7 playlist - It's a rather eclectic mix!!

The thundering Cavaille-Coll organ of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, has just delivered the opening Allegro of Syphonie No.6 to my ears. When it's finished, I'll have just the Symphonie No.8 in B major and Symphonie 'Romane' to go (the latter played at Saint-Sernin, Toulouse) in my 'Widor-fest'.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat, Op. 16 by Sergei Bortkiewicz played by Stephen Coombs and BBCSSO conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk. Richly romantic and rewarding!

Boom. I spent all day yesterday listening to that having to teach it to everyone...for some reason, G'nR seem to be en vogue this season.

I'm listening to BBC News (24) and the Pope's visit.

(Guns) N' Rosaries!

I'm listening to the Paul Lewis CD I bought at Chet's of the Beethoven Sonantas. Very nice it is too.


*Dare I say better than Barenboim?......possibly*

This...absolutely beautiful (and enhanced by the pictorial images)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JkZUu4ngXU...feature=related

Gorgeous, thank you!

Bon Jovi

I'm currently listening to Arvo Pärt's Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirrors In Mirrors).

If you've not heard it, you really need to here. Minimalism at it's best.

Beep-Pussycat Dolls

Bobby Bloom : Montego Bay

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Major-Mvt IV