What are you listening to now?

[Peter]

Liszt - 'Christus'

[Megan]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1lBVwP9dI[/YOUTUBE]


Love this aria.

Sung by, Magdalena Kožená

Antonio Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans

[Michael]

Beethoven's symphonies: Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

[Megan]

BBC Radio 3



Words, music and poems inspired by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Read by, Andrew Buchan and Jenny AGutter.

[Peter]

Beethoven String quartet Op.131 arr. for string orchestra.

[Megan]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern

Sonata violino solo representativa for violin and continuo in A major
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch.
Performer: Rosanne Hunt.
Performer: Linda Kent.



Slavonic March in B flat minor (Op.31) 'March Slave' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[Peter]

Saint-Saëns 'Cello concerto in A minor.

[Megan]

Heinrich Biber, Mystery Sonatas.


Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The 'Rosary' or 'Mystery' Sonatas by the 17th-century Austrian composer Heinrich Biber are one of the most extraordinary collections in the baroque violin repertoire, a cycle of 15 sonatas reflecting on episodes in the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Six of them, plus the solo Passacaglia which ends the cycle, are performed here by violinist Rachel Podger, theorbist David Miller and keyboard-player Marcin Swiatkiewicz.

Biber: Mystery Sonatas:
No 1 'The Annunciation'; No 2 'The Visitation'; No 3 'The Nativity'; No 9 'Jesus Carries the Cross'; No 10 'The Crucifixion'; No 11 'The Resurrection'; Passacaglia

Rachel Podger (violin)
David Miller (theorbo)
Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpischord and organ).

[AeolianHarp]

Beethoven's cello sonatas. They are just so gorgeous..

[Megan]

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born on this day in 1710. He composed this absolute masterpiece...



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZET0kU9qs[/youtube]

[PaulD]

At the risk of being a little anti climatic I am listening to the all Led Zeppelin radio station on TuneIn....but yesterday I listen to the entire Mass op.86 by Beethoven. I love the Kyrie...
Right now though, Heartbreaker is playing...

[Pastorale]

Mahler's Sixth, the Tragic. Love the hammer part

[AeolianHarp]

John Field's nocturnes played on an 1823 Broadwood fortepiano by Bart van Oort. They are so relaxing, melodious and delightful.

I have the CD- but for those who haven't heard these:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OihX84EGbbA[/YOUTUBE]

Keep listening to the above- it has a sudden dramatic turn!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwciSCStdc[/YOUTUBE]

[Peter]

Manuel de Falla - 'Noches en los jardines de España'

[Peter]

Now I have my new PC I'm like a kid with a new toy as I can watch Youtube without it crashing all the time! I just love this version of Tristan with Jessye Norman - the change at around 3'48 is breath taking and the whole thing is stunning - best watched full screen.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9680zhMmIqM[/YOUTUBE]