Oooohh, brings back memories

Hope your voice is recovering and you get over your cough soon

Thanks, AroundAgain

White Night - Norwegian Folk music.

Ashkenazy playing Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 3 - the recording that made me fall in love with this piece when I was 6.

The soundtrack of The Boat that Rocked - my son is watching the film. Though, come to think of it, he should be in bed.

Great pianist and music but I have to say that I prefer Maria Joao Pires' nocturnes. Just a personal preference

That said I am listening to Ashkenazy's definitive recording of the Rachmaninov symphonic dances with the Concertgabaow. Top notch!

Indeed, there are so many different interpretations. I suspect that I like the Ashkenazy best only because of its nostalgic value!!

I was just listening to Joao Pires' nocturnes! It's a lovely set

Ooh, now I shall have to look them up...

Incognito : Always There

Peter Maxwell Davis playing Farewell to Stromness - really enjoying the programme about him on BBC4.

One of the recordings on Mad Tom's blog - the Scriabin prelude in B

The carillon on the Kecskemet town hall, playing in the hour...

Lucky lucky you! I hope you are enjoying yourself!

Aww thanks Lis! You should come here some time! Course starts tomorrow which means I have to stop spending all day sleeping in my cool room and venture out into the heat...

I'd love to go some time too! Am pleased you got a cool room this ear. Was it last year your room resembled avery hot oven? Have a great fortnight!

Richard Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings - heavyweight stuff, but beautiful and so tragic. Reminds me of Verklerte Nacht by Schoenberg.

Mmm. Sublime stuff. Both of them.

It's cool in relative terms! The Institute is in an old monastery building so is less hot than the rest of Hungary!

I should go there sometime...

One day - when I can scrape together enough pennies. Would like to try to get to the UK Summer School again.

Back on topic, right now I am listening to the buzzers on QI and trying to work out the music they come from - I can only identify Alan Davies' one which is George Formby 'When I'm cleaning windows'.

Well, if we can scrape the pennies together at the same time...

'twould be good! I need to get a larger sofa so that more pennies can magically appear in it! Well, that's my plan.

Get scraping those pennies, both of you! It would be good to see you either on the UK Summer School or in Hungary...

Talking of saving pennies - I save all my change and last emptied my piggy banks two years ago - just did them again and totted up ?328!!!!

You took your piggy bank to Hungary?

No, Czerny - I emptied them two days before I left.

Really...

Would be the latter, Cyrilla. Not sure it'd be 2012, but 2013 possibly?...

A child playing, the tv burbling, background music, a coffee machine stuck in the garage whilst car is fixed.

Maybe this should be in the scream thread - mother of the child has just turned the tv to Jeremy Kyle.

W. S. Bennett - Sonata in f minor op 13

The Bell Song, from Delibes' Lakme.

Last night I fell asleep watching an episode of Mildred Pierce. When I woke up, this music was apparently coming out of the wireless at the end of the episode, but it sounded so unreal that I wasn't entirely sure I was actually awake A bit of searching on google and youtube this morning and I'm relieved to find that it was truly happening!

Baz, the Hungarian course is only every other year (ie next one is in 2013) - the UK one is every year - just for your info!

The last Rose EP by Laura Wright

"People,People" by tommy Bolin, from the remastered album Teaser. Inspirational. He was wasted in Deep Purple.. and wasted his own life due to Heroin.

Gabrieli Consort: Music for the Dukes of Lerma.

Alan Rawsthorne, Theme and Variations for Two Violins

Listening to right now?Sister Josephine by Jake Thackray - a much underrated guitarist in my opinion.

The Champ's Boys Orchestra : Tubular Bells

The carillon on the Kecskemet town hall playing Mozart...I am SO going to miss this when I go home..

Just seen this : thanks, C

Beethoven violin concerto.

Britain's best ever songwriter. Got to love "The Lodger" and "On Again, On Again".

The Statues is one of my favourites.

Brahms Rhapsody in G minor (op. 79 no 2). For some reason this has been stuck in my head since I heard it on the radio last week. Brahms is not usually on my playlist, but I heard this a lot when two of my piano teacher's pupils were playing it for their DipABRSMs a few years ago and it's obviously wormed its way in.

Elgar at the Proms. On BBC4 now

was listening to Beethovens concertos on Sky Arts Tv-don't know why they put them on at 5am for though !!
Also listening to Rockabilly (LOL)

Chic : 'Le Freak'

Tonight's prom.
Mahler's 2nd.

"Wouldn't you simply die without Mahler?".

The sound of the first televised football match of the season coming from the room next door.

I'm not really a Mahler fan...

I really like Mahler's music. before I die of old age I would like to perform all of the completed 9 symphonies. I don't care for 10 as it was mostly written by someone who was not Mahler! I actually turned down the opportunity to play Symphony 10 earlier this year.

So far I have played no. 1 twice and no.3 once.