Apologies for the late publication of this post - I was away from home last night, meeting up with old schoolfriends from a very long time ago!
At home, before departure:
Mozart - Rondo in D Major K382 (on Spotify, following a link from @iamamro)
Haydn - Baryton Trios No.s 1-7
In the car, travelling to the North:
Brahms - Piano Concertos No.1 and No.2
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites
Smetana - Start of Ma Vlast
And apart from thudding basslines emerging from various clubs & pubs in a rather lively Doncaster, that was it.
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Friday, 7 August 2009
Friday 7th August 2009
OK, here are today's ears:
Music in the car today - to and from work:
Reverend & The Makers - A French Kiss in the Chaos
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
On my phone while walking this morning:
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4
At my friend's house:
Beethoven - Symphony No.4
Berlioz - Te Deum
Faure - Berceuse from Dolly Suite piano duet played by various members of the BBC Proms team on YouTube!
That's it for today. Fairly simple ears really.
Music in the car today - to and from work:
Reverend & The Makers - A French Kiss in the Chaos
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
On my phone while walking this morning:
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4
At my friend's house:
Beethoven - Symphony No.4
Berlioz - Te Deum
Faure - Berceuse from Dolly Suite piano duet played by various members of the BBC Proms team on YouTube!
That's it for today. Fairly simple ears really.
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Thursday 6th August 2009
Here are today's ears!
Day was largely spent at home, except for a couple of brief excursions in the car for Wonderspouse taxi duties. Car music was:
Saint-Saens - Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Playlist at home has been:
Inlight - Fire EP (Fragile, Give Me A Try, Bridges)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (twice)
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.1
Mendelssohn - Various Overtures
Schubert - Symphonies 5, 8 and 9
Beethoven - Op.101 1st Mvmt (played by @PianoGeek on his Tumblr blog)
Beethoven - Archduke Trio
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4 (just started as I type this, and I will leave going for the bath)
So there you are.
Comments:
1. Check out Inlight (@Inlight on twitter too). Wonderspouse interviewed their frontman last night - he's a deeply lovely & cool person. Knows his wine too :)
2. Pink Floyd - an old fave. Coming to the desert island. Nostalgia & good memories.
3. Mendelssohn Op.18 SQnT - I wrote my M.Mus. thesis on this piece!
4. Schubert Symphonies are gorgeous.
5. Beethoven Piano Concertos are gorgeous - esp No.4, to which I am now listening.
6. I find it amazing that I met @PianoGeek through Twitter, then can look at a video of him playing Beethoven on his Tumblr blog, and, through poor sound quality & all, feel the power of Beethoven & music & stuff coming to me as I sit in my study in England, watching something recorded by a man I've never physically met in a country I've never been to, but somehow, something...
(never try to type something like that after a few glasses of wine. Suffice to say that the whole experience was something on some kind of deep level that isn't the sort of thing I usually admit to, being generally of a cynical disposition. Words are useless anyway, which is why my ears blog about music...)
Day was largely spent at home, except for a couple of brief excursions in the car for Wonderspouse taxi duties. Car music was:
Saint-Saens - Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Playlist at home has been:
Inlight - Fire EP (Fragile, Give Me A Try, Bridges)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (twice)
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.1
Mendelssohn - Various Overtures
Schubert - Symphonies 5, 8 and 9
Beethoven - Op.101 1st Mvmt (played by @PianoGeek on his Tumblr blog)
Beethoven - Archduke Trio
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4 (just started as I type this, and I will leave going for the bath)
So there you are.
Comments:
1. Check out Inlight (@Inlight on twitter too). Wonderspouse interviewed their frontman last night - he's a deeply lovely & cool person. Knows his wine too :)
2. Pink Floyd - an old fave. Coming to the desert island. Nostalgia & good memories.
3. Mendelssohn Op.18 SQnT - I wrote my M.Mus. thesis on this piece!
4. Schubert Symphonies are gorgeous.
5. Beethoven Piano Concertos are gorgeous - esp No.4, to which I am now listening.
6. I find it amazing that I met @PianoGeek through Twitter, then can look at a video of him playing Beethoven on his Tumblr blog, and, through poor sound quality & all, feel the power of Beethoven & music & stuff coming to me as I sit in my study in England, watching something recorded by a man I've never physically met in a country I've never been to, but somehow, something...
(never try to type something like that after a few glasses of wine. Suffice to say that the whole experience was something on some kind of deep level that isn't the sort of thing I usually admit to, being generally of a cynical disposition. Words are useless anyway, which is why my ears blog about music...)
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Wednesday 5th August 2009
Okey dokey, been quite a busy day for the ears today. Off we go:
In the car on the way to work:
Last movement of Haydn Symphony No.104
Monteverdi - 1610 Vespers
At work, on earphones from iPlayer:
Haydn - String Quartet Op.50/4
Britten - String Quartet No.2
(Proms Chamber Music Concert)
While walking:
The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
Then, again on the iPlayer, Early Music Show:
Bach: In dulce Jubilo
Pablo Bruna: Tiento sobre la letania del la Virgen
Ton Koopman (organ)
Handel: Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV289 No 1
Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in C, H XVIII 1
Ton Koopman (organ)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Louis-Antoine Travenol: Sonata No 3 in D (excerpts)
Michele Mascitti: Sonata No 3 in G minor (excerpt)
Le Tic Toc Choc
(recorded at the York Early Music Festival's Young Artists competition final on 18th July 2009)
Tarquini Merula: La Lusignuola
Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Anon (14th century): Estampie (Robertsbridge Codex)
Purcelli Abubu
(recorded at the York Early Music Festival's Young Artists competition final on 18th July 2009).
Then, also from the iPlayer, and a Prom:
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
In the car on the way home:
Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony & Danse Macabre
At home:
Radiohead - Harry Patch song (downloaded today).
Chopin - Ballades, Scherzi Opp 20 & 31
The Boxer Rebellion - Union
Amparito Roca - Brass Band music tweeted about by @Trumpette2
Mozart - Symphony No.29
Quite a busy day for the ears really!
In the car on the way to work:
Last movement of Haydn Symphony No.104
Monteverdi - 1610 Vespers
At work, on earphones from iPlayer:
Haydn - String Quartet Op.50/4
Britten - String Quartet No.2
(Proms Chamber Music Concert)
While walking:
The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
Then, again on the iPlayer, Early Music Show:
Bach: In dulce Jubilo
Pablo Bruna: Tiento sobre la letania del la Virgen
Ton Koopman (organ)
Handel: Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV289 No 1
Haydn: Keyboard Concerto in C, H XVIII 1
Ton Koopman (organ)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Louis-Antoine Travenol: Sonata No 3 in D (excerpts)
Michele Mascitti: Sonata No 3 in G minor (excerpt)
Le Tic Toc Choc
(recorded at the York Early Music Festival's Young Artists competition final on 18th July 2009)
Tarquini Merula: La Lusignuola
Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Anon (14th century): Estampie (Robertsbridge Codex)
Purcelli Abubu
(recorded at the York Early Music Festival's Young Artists competition final on 18th July 2009).
Then, also from the iPlayer, and a Prom:
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
In the car on the way home:
Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony & Danse Macabre
At home:
Radiohead - Harry Patch song (downloaded today).
Chopin - Ballades, Scherzi Opp 20 & 31
The Boxer Rebellion - Union
Amparito Roca - Brass Band music tweeted about by @Trumpette2
Mozart - Symphony No.29
Quite a busy day for the ears really!
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Tuesday 4th August 2009
Today the ears have had a varietous time!
On the way to work in the car:
Nirvana - Nirvana
Listening on my phone while walking:
Deep Purple - The Best Of
On the way home from work in the car:
Haydn - Drumroll Symphony
At home, while doing my accounts:
Schubert - Wanderer Fantasie
Schumann - Fantasie Op.17
Then, on the recommendation of tweep @5357311:
Public Image Limited - Metal Box/Second Edition
In the bath:
Mozart - Piano Sonata K457
Mozart - Piano Concerto K488
Comments:
Was feeling very edgy & a bit hyper when I went for my walk - Deep Purple suited the mood perfectly.
Brain was feeling pretty jumbled & I needed to drive home safely. Haydn is just wonderful in such circumstances. Feels like every note is placed just right, and with each note, a bit more of my brain just gets popped back into a more suitable place. Order, structure, beauty, wonderful.
Schubert & Schumann - long been faves of mine. Lovely disc - Pollini
Public Image Limited - WAHEY. This is cool stuff. Sounds way ahead of its time. I particularly liked the instrumental stuff. Will go back to it again soon I hope for another listen.
Mozart - one of the MP3 players seems to be having a random time - this was just what came. Lovely though, both of them!!
On the way to work in the car:
Nirvana - Nirvana
Listening on my phone while walking:
Deep Purple - The Best Of
On the way home from work in the car:
Haydn - Drumroll Symphony
At home, while doing my accounts:
Schubert - Wanderer Fantasie
Schumann - Fantasie Op.17
Then, on the recommendation of tweep @5357311:
Public Image Limited - Metal Box/Second Edition
In the bath:
Mozart - Piano Sonata K457
Mozart - Piano Concerto K488
Comments:
Was feeling very edgy & a bit hyper when I went for my walk - Deep Purple suited the mood perfectly.
Brain was feeling pretty jumbled & I needed to drive home safely. Haydn is just wonderful in such circumstances. Feels like every note is placed just right, and with each note, a bit more of my brain just gets popped back into a more suitable place. Order, structure, beauty, wonderful.
Schubert & Schumann - long been faves of mine. Lovely disc - Pollini
Public Image Limited - WAHEY. This is cool stuff. Sounds way ahead of its time. I particularly liked the instrumental stuff. Will go back to it again soon I hope for another listen.
Mozart - one of the MP3 players seems to be having a random time - this was just what came. Lovely though, both of them!!
Monday, 3 August 2009
Monday 3rd August 2009
Here are today's ears:
This morning, at home:
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber
Grieg - Piano Concerto & Peer Gynt Suites
Mozart - C Minor Mass
Mozart - Davidde Penitente
Later:
Reger - Viola Romance, Sonata, & E Minor Suite
Muse - Uprising, on the Web
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Car music today:
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
A relatively normal sort of day for the ears!
This morning, at home:
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber
Grieg - Piano Concerto & Peer Gynt Suites
Mozart - C Minor Mass
Mozart - Davidde Penitente
Later:
Reger - Viola Romance, Sonata, & E Minor Suite
Muse - Uprising, on the Web
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Car music today:
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
A relatively normal sort of day for the ears!
Sunday 2nd August 2009
A much quieter day than Saturday:
In the car on the way home:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Blur - Midlife
At home:
Blur - Live from Hyde Park 2009
(Newly downloaded, memories of a fantastic day - somehow the crowd noise on the live recording annoys me much less than it usually would because I WAS THERE!!! - it was even more special because I thought I would be too ill to go, but (just) managed to get there and really enjoyed it.)
In the car on the way home:
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Blur - Midlife
At home:
Blur - Live from Hyde Park 2009
(Newly downloaded, memories of a fantastic day - somehow the crowd noise on the live recording annoys me much less than it usually would because I WAS THERE!!! - it was even more special because I thought I would be too ill to go, but (just) managed to get there and really enjoyed it.)
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