I'm singing some Schubert on Saturday, pity you can't be there to hear it

I noticed. I'm sure it'll be great!

I'm playing that piece at the moment actually - sadly not the Liszt transcription, but a faithful one nonetheless.

Will let you know how it goes : thanks for your good wishes

Hello all

Imelda May - she's fab!!

Bach - Brandenburg No. 5.

Apparently some say he is over-rated

Verdi, 'Pace, pace mio Dio' from La forza del destino, performed by Alessandra Marc

'National Express' : The Divine Comedy

golliwog's cakewalk by Debussy

I had tickets to see him in concert last year, twice. Both times I was too ill to go.

Hopefully he will be touring again this year.

Ben Folds. Effington.

Intercession by James McMillan for 3 oboes. Played by Pipers 3.

oooh... is that from a CD I think I spotted on Oboe Classics? A worthwhile purchase?

Yes it's fabulous. A lovely combination of old (Boismortier, Beethoven) and new (the McMillan, Amy - "Jeux", possibly my favourite, and others).

Whilst you are browsing there, I would also heartily recommend:
New Noise, Frozen River Flows (8 zillion stars)
Emily Pailthorpe, Though Lovers be Lost (THE Britten Temporal Variations performance and a fabulous Poulenc)
A wonderful exploration of the Britten 6 Metamorphoses by George Caird
and (if you saw Melinda Maxwell at IDRS in Birmingham and enjoyed it) the Birtwistle Orpheus Elegies.

I'm watching/listening to Reggae at the BBC

I don't think I'll be able to stay up for Toots and the Maytels, which follows at 11.30, so I'll have to see if I can find it again tomorrow

Maria Tipo - she has everything one could want of a musician.

Eric Clapton : 'Behind the Mask'

That's an awesome song! My dad was a huge fan of Clapton's, so I was brought up on that sort of stuff.

I think it is one of his best

Elizabeth Watts singing Schubert's Thekla #2, (Op88/2)...

Organ arrangment of the Radetsky March played by Malcolm Archer!

Plan B : Prayin'

This guy is going to go a long way...

I just listened to a Youtube clip of her playing - she is amazing! Especially the Mozart Concerto No 20. I had never heard of her! I obviously need to extend my knowledge of great pianists.

Incognito : 'Everyday' (from 100 degrees and rising - see the desert island discs thread in the teachers' area)

Alien Dance Machine feat. Dr Soul, Tripn Stripn Dripn Dropn

Various and sundry Benny Goodman numbers

Freeez : 'Southern Freeez'

Idlewild - Felt a wee bit homesick for Scotland today so I'm bringing back the nostalgia of following them round a Highlands tour. Fantastic.

Prince : '1999'

James Rhodes' Bullets & Lullabies

A classic!

Currently listening to a piece by sitarist Anoushkar Shankar!

The fabulous Aurin girls' choir.

Nocturne in B, Op 32 No 1

*swoon*

*sigh*

Are they doing a UK tour this year?

Listening to Odyssey : ' Native New Yorker ' on Radio 2.

Nothing; am wondering in what order to put my cds into itunes now I can plug my ipod back into the car. Think I'll start with chamber music.

BBC World Service, while cooking a large curry

I have a nasty feeling that they aren't . They really have no money and rely totally on kind families putting them up when they're over here - so they've been hit by new regulations (am I right in thinking that parents who put up teenagers in this sort of situation now have to be CRB checked???).

I am SO hacked off about this.

I don't know if you're right or not C, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case...

Nooo!!!
Right, I am NOT moving back to the UK!

I didn't know about the Aurin Girls choir so I looked them up on YouTube.
I just love the Forum for finding "new" stuff!

Aren't they great? I've heard them live twice.

C - I hope that's not the case - but it would not be surprising. Another triumph for the grey beaurocrats.


(edit) we went out for a meal with friends last night, and they came back for a drink and we listened to some tracks.
After they had gone home, OH went to bed, and I put Aurin on (i-tunes on my mac) and sat for about an hour doing my knitting and just enjoying the late stillness. Perfect. I really could have sat there all night quite happily.

I've just listened too them too for the first time - amazing!

Have just looked at the CRB website : it appears it's currently not the case, but there are changes coming in this year, and I haven't deciphered all these changes...

Ah - thanks, Baz - if you find anything out, do please let me know. I had a vague impression that the changes were coming in last June/July. I know there was certainly a problem with them being able to stay with families...

Aww, Maggie, that just sounds like perfection!

Glad you liked what you heard, nicki and katica . I know their conductor quite well (he was my conductor for three weeks on the Summer Seminar I went on in Hungary in 2005). He (Laszlo Duranyik) is a product of the amazing work that goes on in the small town of Nyireghaza..he was taught by the amazing Denes Szabo, who is the conductor of the truly stupendous Pro Musica Girls' Choir (rather older girls than the Aurin) and is a contemporary of Denes' son, Soma - the leader of the utterly wonderful Banchieri Singers (have I used enough superlatives here ??? ).

Labour were certainly planning changes, yes, but they all went on hold when they lost the election. The current lot are changing it in a different way, but I haven't quite worked out how...

If I do find out, I'll let you know.

Oumou Sengar?, Seya

Found this on youtube while searching sax music hope you like as i did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHC1hbUpeic

Jamiroquai : 'Main Vein'

I'm hoping that this Government dump the obsession with bureaucracy but methinks it'll take quite some time to unwind the mess that was created by the last lot if they really have the appetite for it. Bring back personal responsibility and common sense!

hear hear !