What music do you have stuck in your head?

[chasmaniac]

Today's ride-to-work listen is coming back to me in variegated waves.

Solage, Tres gentil cuer
Cordier, Ce jour de l'an
Dufay, Adieux ces bons vins de Lannoys

[madaboutmahler]

Agreed, it's absolutely suggestive and powerful, maybe my favourite part too; but today I had the whole piece on my mind, without preferences.....I listened to it twice in a row

The Karajan recording, I presume?

For me today:
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance no.3
Elgar Froissart Overture
Beethoven Symphony no.6
MAHLER

[Lisztianwagner]

The Karajan recording, I presume?

For me today:
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance no.3
Elgar Froissart Overture
Beethoven Symphony no.6
MAHLER

Of course, is it still worth asking?

Today:

Beethoven Symphony No.7, 1st and 2nd movements
Mahler Symphony No.3
Lehár Gold und Silber
WAGNER

[chasmaniac]

Bach, the Goldbergy thingy.

Innerestin'. What prompted this was the string trio version, but what I "hear" is a piano.

[chasmaniac]

The marvelous Guillaume de Machaut has muscled his way in and I can't get him out of my head!

Il m'est avis qu'il n'est dons de Nature,
Coms bons qu'il soit, que nuls prise à ce jour,
Se la clarté tenebreuse et obscure
De Fortune ne li donne coulour

[DavidRoss]

At least half of my listening time has been devoted to Mahler the past couple of months. In quiet moments I keep hearing the trumpet solo that opens the 5th.


Sure beats the Oscar Meyer Wiener Song!

[madaboutmahler]

Of course, is it still worth asking?

At least half of my listening time has been devoted to Mahler the past couple of months. In quiet moments I keep hearing the trumpet solo that opens the 5th.

Around half of my listening time is devoted to Mahler as well.

Today, on my mind was, and still is:
Schumann Piano Concerto
Beethoven Symphony no.6
Riley 'In C'
MAHLER

[Lisztianwagner]

Today:

Beethoven Symphony No.9
Elgar Pomp & Circumstance March No.4
Holst The Cloud Messenger
J. Strauss Revolutions-Marsch
Wagner in particular, the Prelude and "Isoldes Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde, so incredibly beautiful, powerful and thrilling!

[chasmaniac]

Abide, I hope it be the best.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Sin hasty man wanted never woe.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Let every man that will han rest
Ever ben avised what he shal do.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Prove ere thou take; think ere thou fest.
In weal beware, ere thou be wo.
Abide, I hope it be the best.
Abide, I hope it be the best.

from ye olde anonymous

[chasmaniac]

...whose transmission continues with There is no rose of swych virtu.

Gosh, it'll be The Agincourt Carol next.

Speak of the Devil!

Deo gratias anglia, redde pro victoria.

Owre kynge went forth to Normandy,
With grace and myght of chyvalry;
Ther God for hym wrought mervlusly,
Wherfore Englonde may calle and cry,

He sette a sege, for sothe to say,
To Harflu toune with ryal aray;
That toune he wan and made a fray,
That Fraunce shall rewe tyl domesday.

Then went owre kynge, with alle his oste,
Thorowe Fraunce for all the Frenshe boste;
He spared for drede of leste, ne most,
Tyl he come to Agincourt coste;

Than for sothe that knyght comely,
In Agincourt feld he faught manly;
Thorow grace of God most myghty
He had bothe the felde, and the victory;

Ther dukys, and erlys, lorde and barone,
Were take and slayne, and that wel sone,
And som were ledde in to Lundone
With joye, and merthe, and grete renone;

Now gratious God he save owre kynge,
His peple and all his welwyllynge,
Gef him gode lyfe and gode endynge,
That we with merth mowe savely synge;

[chasmaniac]

Machaut, Dame a vous sans retollir

[chasmaniac]

The marvelous Guillaume de Machaut has muscled his way in and I can't get him out of my head!

On the subject of which ballade (Il m'est avis), this engaging little essay from answers.com:

When listening to Machaut, it should be remembered that the fourteenth century was an incredibly dark time in France. The country was being ravaged by many woes that included famine, war, and the black plague, the latter of which struck France harder than any other country on the continent. Against this gloomy backdrop and a general atmosphere of fatalistic despair, the opening statement of the text of Machaut's disarmingly sunny Il m'est avis should say something about the impact a joyous piece like this may have had: "In my opinion there is no gift of Nature/however good, that anyone appreciates today/if the dark and gloomy clarity/of Fortune does not give it color." Chiaroscuro; in darkness, the light shines brighter. Indeed, Machaut's glorious eminence in his time, a bright spot in a miserable century, could well have stemmed from the sheer escape his marvelous works offered from the incredibly dreary everyday of fourteenth century French life. Il m'est avis opens with a surprising, leaping figure in the top voice in an utterly delightful opening. The rest is full of capricious melodic leaps, chains of short notes, and major-sounding harmonies that make the piece rather deliciously sonorous. It is incidentally one of only two ballades by Machaut composed for four parts -- he normally wrote for only two or three at most -- although in his motets, he had amply honed his skill with larger numbers of voices. What he tries to do in Il m'est avis is try to preserve the wonderful, lucid sense of individual line he gets in his monodies and two-voice ballades, despite the dense polyphony. The caprice of the top line serves to distinguish it, so the polyphony doesn't tangle, as well as to illustrate Fortune's wanton ways. The cross-rhythms, too, give it a slightly intangible quality and listeners should feel invited into a playful chase. Machaut's experiment with an expanded ballade is entirely successful. Machaut's ballades are some of his greatest compositions, indicative of his unique personal and musical character, sometimes more advanced than anything else in his oeuvre. Il m'est avis is among the pieces at the forefront of that admirable body of work. ~ Donato Mancini, Rovi

[chasmaniac]

A bizarre medley of the allegro from Bach's concerto BWV 1060 and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

My neurons are mutating!

[chasmaniac]

Handel, Where're you walk, Semele

[Lisztianwagner]

Today:

Mahler Symphony No.1 "Titan"; so incredibly beautiful, thrilling and impressive.
Smetana The Moldau; very passionate and harmonic.
WAGNER

[madaboutmahler]

Today:

Mahler Symphony No.1 "Titan"; so incredibly beautiful, thrilling and impressive.
Smetana The Moldau; very passionate and harmonic.
WAGNER

Smetana The Moldau; very passionate and harmonic.

Now I have this in my mind as well! For me, it is the section after the opening with the new theme. Love it so much, so delightful!

And apart from that now - of course today, on my mind has been MAHLER

[Lisztianwagner]

And apart from that now - of course today, on my mind has been MAHLER

I think we wouldn't need to include Mahler and Wagner in the list, it's obvious we can't get them out off our mind as they're our absolute favourite composers

[madaboutmahler]

I think we wouldn't need to include Mahler and Wagner in the list, it's obvious we can't get them out off our mind as they're our absolute favourite composers

haha 
I am sure everyone knows know how much we love them!

[chasmaniac]

Haydn SQ, Op 50/2 finale.

[squarez]

The opening theme of Schubert D664 gets back, again.... It's been bothering me for almost a year....