Britten's Simple Symphony.

I can't think of a more in-apt name. I'm performing it in three weeks and I have no idea how I'm going to do it

Good for you! Is this because you're going to be playing it somewhere soon?

The very unwell-sounding fan inside my computer...

An 80s group called Linx.

Oh, and the bleeping of MSN

Oh barry you are SO cool...

Carol, it cannot be helped that I sometimes show the tendencies to have all the coolness of an oven...

I should be listening to some of my new jazz CDs. However, because I took out membership of Amazon Prime, which gives me next day delivery, and I always seem to order the day before everyone decides to be out at the same time, i have to wait until I can get to the sorting office tomorrow morning.

The B52s, Rock Lobster.

An utterly ridiculous song, but hey!

'Walking on Broken Glass' - Annie Lennox

oh wait.... 'Nature Boy' - George Benson

barry, you do have the most "interesting" taste in music...

Sibelius'piano music (Op 74, 75, 76, 85, 94)

Everything I had read said it was second rate - but the critics were wrong, wrong, wrong.

It is MAGNIFICENT

The rain HAMMERING down...

Thunderbolts and lightning.

Very, very frightning!!

doh

no re

or maybe soh,

no that's not it

la ??

Ummm...??? *is confuzzled*

LOL@Mad Thomas

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Brian Wilson's arrangements are pure genius.

Thank you Carol.
I think we should have an in-depth debate on 'Rock Lobster - its place in world music history'.



Nope, can't resist it....














Gallileo!!!!!!!

Well that Kate Pearson did some very cool vocals with REM



I just finished listening to the full set of Mozart's Piano Sonatas (started over 5 hours ago).

How could I have forgotten just how wonderful they are. Right now, if all I could ever listen to again, or play was Mozart's music I'd be happy enough.

What a tragedy that he died at 34.

What would he have produced if he'd lived as long as Haydn?

I think you might be on your own there...

Requiem - Confutatis

The sounds of cars driving through the rain , the occasional bus, chatter of people walking past the window in the rain , the drip drip of rain on the window. More rain .

It's rained every day bar one for at least two weeks here - I'm getting slightly sick of it. Can't believe I ate my lunch outside earlier today in glorious sunshine...

piano practice in another room...
think it's jazz chords ... etc

Cantamus' version of Fix You - it is sublime. Just beautiful.

A piano/orchestra version of Beethovens' Violin Concerto (1st Movement)....

Silence, except for the occasional car at the front and a wood pigeon at the back.

A computery sort of version of the Northern Ireland finale...

The score (courtesy of Carl Davis) to Buster Keaton's The General, which my son is watching in another room. Trying to guess which bit of the film is showing, by which bit of music I can hear.

Vivaldi - Concerto Grosso No 8, A minor, Op.3. (RV 522)

Dont Panic - Coldplay


oooh change of song:

'Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer

the parrot singing downstairs and my brother cooking

Duffy - Rockferry ... MOST pleasing

Bagguffy x

When I get to Warwick Avenue, it means I've fallen asleep on the Tube and should've got off at Paddington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mP7Xu4m8s



Then it will be:

'Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot' -- Sting
Simply because of the lyrics.

Status Quo - Rocking all over the world ! xx

This http://www.theclassicalshop.net/details06M...umber=NX%200331

I bought it yesterday and I admit that it was because of Stephen Fry narrating The Night Before Christmas, but the whole thing's lovely.

Linkin Park

The radio : and at the moment it's McFadden and Whitehead

Kate Perry is on the radio in the background.

Jools Holland - Small World, Big Band

Haydn Sonata No. 47 in B Minor (Hob XVI/32) played by John McCabe

Magic

Jerry Lee Lewis live at the Star Club, Hamburg, 1964

Wow! How did the piano survive that onslaught???

Burl

Jools Holland is great - his annual Hootenanny is essential viewing!

Definitely

One of my heroes: Elliott Carter, being interviewed on reaching 100, and choosing some typical works to illustrate his development as a composer. Right now we are in one of his string quartets.

Simon and Garfunkel. I'm in that kinda mood.

CCS : Whole Lotta Love - better known as the theme tune to Top of the Pops in the 70s and early 80s.

The weird squeaky noise coming from one of the gas cylinders in the lab.

It is annoying

Can you work out what pitch the squeak is? Is it an Eb, or an A, maybe it's an F#?