What are you listening to now?

[Megan]

Malcolm Arnold
A Grand, grand overture (Op.57)For 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 Floor Polisher, 4 Rifles and Orchestra.







Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2 etc: Vernon Handley, Conifer, 1


Sir Granville Bantock
Song to the seals

Stephen Hough's English Piano Album, Hyperion, 12

[Enrique]

Malcolm Arnold
A Grand, grand overture (Op.57)For 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 Floor Polisher, 4 Rifles and Orchestra.

Megan, I did not know you were fond of contemporary music. Is it patriotism or have you been influenced by Roehre's example? Just kidding, but have your tastes in music always been so ample?

[Megan]

Megan, I did not know you were fond of contemporary music. Is it patriotism or have you been influenced by Roehre's example? Just kidding, but have your tastes in music always been so ample?

The Malcolm Arnold piece was played on the radio whilst I was washing up.
I have never heard this odd piece before and was curious to set out and find more about it. I always listen to BBC Radio 3 while busy with my household chores.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/what...6_arnold.shtml

[Enrique]

And the same shall I be doing in a short time for, right now, Radio 3 insists in my flash player being obsolete. By the way, I love the way you declared being busy with such a mundane matter while listening to classical music, which so many people place high in an altar.

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Traditional: Blow the Southerly Wind

John Powell: In the South, Op. 16

Love your emoticons, Megan!

[Quijote]

[...] Sir Granville Bantock ...

Bantock !! Wrote a lovely (appallingly romantic) piece for the 'cello (title escqpes me) for an exam piece I had to play when I was a kid. Aaagghh !!!!!!

[Quijote]

Granville Bantock! Crazy name, crazy guy !!

[Enrique]

Listening to Bach's double concerto over and over again. I would like to have new words for it, but so many have already been used!

Today:
Debussy
Préludes, book I

[Preston]

Off abroad now. I will be back Friday Oct 12th.

...?
Anyone heard from Roehre?

And, Happy Birthday Megan!

[Megan]

...?
Anyone heard from Roehre?

And, Happy Birthday Megan!

Thank you Preston!
I think I have eaten too many chocolates already and it's not even dinner time yet.


I was wondering the same about Roehre, he hasn't been around lately.

[Michael]

Malcolm Arnold
A Grand, grand overture (Op.57)For 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 Floor Polisher, 4 Rifles and Orchestra.

Is that from the Hoffman (?) Music Festival - or some title like that? I think I have it on vinyl somewhere.

It's very funny and it includes such treasures as somebody (hardly Denis Brain) playing one of the Mozart horn concertos on a piece of hose-pipe and "Beethoven's Leonore No. 4" which has the off-stage trumpet coming in at all the wrong times. I had to give up listening to this last piece as it kept coming into my head whenever I listened to the real thing.

[Enrique]

Bach, MatthausPassion
Kommt, ihr Tochter (Part I, mov 1)
Du lieber Heiland du
Buss und Reu'
Blute nur

Beethoven
Third symphony, first mov

Stravinsky
Pulcinella (complete)

In youtube, one of commentaries was: "Stravinsky was a genius of the highest order". Of course, no need to mention that, but if a work can give testimony of it, I think it is this, with Pergolessi or without him.

[Enrique]

Tchaikowsky
Symphony no.4
3rd mov ########## but then I could not resist going on with
4th mov.

When I listen to the fourh, I get the feeling that this is the greatest he wrote.

[Michael]

Diabelli Variations played by Brendel.

[PDG]

Malcolm Arnold
A Grand, grand overture (Op.57)For 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 Floor Polisher, 4 Rifles and Orchestra.

Brilliant! The effort Megan puts into her posts is truly worthy of sustained applause. We're lucky to have you aboard, ma'am...