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Orig.
A certain arrival - http://www.atherden.com/Handel/arrival.html
 
06 Dec 10
Probably my favourite piece of music -
http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/d'unFaune.html
 
Orig.
The Hall - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/classical.html
 
Orig.
The second Hall - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/classicalNewPieces.html
 
26 Feb 06
Slightly different but remembered - http://www.atherden.com/Tunes/Phnaaw!.html
 
26 Feb 06
The Mings - http://www.atherden.com/Tunes/Nimoy.html
 
28 Feb 06
Trot On- http://www.atherden.com/Harris/Horses.html
 
17 Mar 06
Choir Hall - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/classicalChoir.html
 
09 Mar 11 Und in den Funkraum -
http://www.atherden.com/VonAgentenSterbenEinsam/werfen.html
 
17 Sep 06 Fellows again - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/BeethovenChoreographed.html  
26 Jun 13 Tchaikovsky mass - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/tchaikovskyLiturgised.html  
26 Sep 06 Changing history - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/avantLeBaroque.html  
27 Sep 06 Elgar wittingly submitted - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/staidElgar.html  
02 Aug 11 I've was mixing up the works of Dvorák and Smetana, and
have been Czech'ing it over!
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/husitskaDvorak.html
 
11 Oct 06 Orff tune? :P are - http://www.atherden.com/Orff/songofbenediktbeuern.html  
21 Oct 06 Verdi wrote - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/operaAdMeOperetta.html  
07 Dec 06 French....erm....singing - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/chanterFrancais.html  
22 Dec 06 To you all - wherever you may be - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/historicalChristmas.html  
21 Jan 06 Ahhhh! - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/uneAutreChansonFrancais.html  
11 Feb 07 Nine pieces of new old music - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/thoughtInMusic.html  
01 Mar 08 German late Baroque - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/tafelmusik.html  
11 Apr 08 An epic (apparently) poet - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/tannhäuser.html  
 
05 Jun 08 Dreams can be provocative.... - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/träumerei.html
22 Jul 08 For those old enough to remember - http://www.atherden.com/Tunes/rhymes.html
31 Jul 08 Nearly one hundred years ago - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/tonya.html
03 Sept 08 An Irish inspired Revolution? - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/dannivich.html
20 Sept 08 Massenet in 1894 - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/thaïs.html
18 Oct 08 It's almost that time of year again -
http://www.atherden.com/Rimsky-Korsakov/snowMaiden.html
03 Dec 08 Giménez's la boda de Luis Alonso - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/luisAlonso.html
11 Dec 08 A work by Giacomo Puccini that, in association to the Verdi, was the source
of a film we like very much -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/rodolfoEMimì.html
03 Jan 09 A rather thoughtful Gustav Mahler - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/elegyMahler.html
04 Jan 09 The appreciative masses - http://www.atherden.com/Tunes/tong.html
07 Feb 09 Mountains really - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/märchenAusDemOrient.html
10 Feb 09 Pasternak never saw this, and Krushchev censored his written work - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/fromTheFront.html
26 Feb 09 To enthuse you.... - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/rossiniString.html
02 Apr 09 The Radetzky March - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/radetzkyMarch.html
05 Apr 09 Edvard Grieg: Konzert for klaver og orkester, a-moll, op.16 -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/pianoConcerto.html
09 Apr 09 A piano sonata, violin concerto and a symphony by Beethoven - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/differentBeethoven.html
09 Apr 09 Both Strauß' work - http://www.atherden.com/Strauß/JohannStraußI&II.html
09 May 09 Only Peer Gynt is incidental - http://www.atherden.com/Grieg/someIncidentalMusic.html
24 May 09 Gounod's Faust - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/faust.html
28 May 09 HE'S BACK! - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/bird.html
22 Jun 09 Pop culture isn't dead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K9xrqI_Osw&feature=related
13 Jul 09 The First and Second Movements - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/smetana.html
30 Jul 09 Starts with Mercury, but you can play the other movements once Mercury
is over (you can thank mp3 files for the delay in that) -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/holst.html
16 Aug 09 Dies Irae - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/unumSepulcrum.html
10 Nov 09 It's the harp that gets me (if that's what actually it is)....
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/todReally.html
03 Dec 09 No sarcastic comments on Robin - http://www.atherden.com/Strauß/dieFledermaus.html
26 Dec 09 Some very official Russian music - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/redSquare.html
01 Dec 10 From the same era (kind of) - http://www.atherden.com/Rachmaninoff/rhapsody.html
21 Jun 13 I'm obviously going through something of a Russian phase -
http://www.atherden.com/Prokofiev/kijé.html
11 Apr 12 C'mere Fiver - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/watership.html
09 Mar 11 Some Bavarian music to dance to - http://www.atherden.com/VonAgentenSterbenEinsam/zumWildenHirsch.html
22 Feb 10 Alexander Nevsky - http://www.atherden.com/Prokofiev/nevsky.html
10 Mar 10 Une partie de les Études de Chopin - http://www.atherden.com/Chopin/lesÉtudesOp10.html
25 Mar 10 Vivaldi - http://www.atherden.com/Vivaldi/leQuattroStagioni.html
07 Jun 10 Prince Igor (with recommendations at the bottom of the page) - http://www.atherden.com/Borodin/igor.html
14 Jul 10 Music from a film - http://www.atherden.com/Movies/dasBoot.html
05 Feb 19 It's a time thing, really - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/clock.html
04 Aug 10 Talking and singing with foreigners (volume and a political acquiescence required) -
http://www.atherden.com/Politics/protocol.html
18 Sep 10 To inspire Baldric - http://www.atherden.com/Dvorak/cunning.html
22 Dec 10 Das Internet ist heutig Autobahn wirklich- http://www.atherden.com/Kraftwerk/aufDeutschUndAufEnglisch.html
26 Dec 10 Some of Vivaldi's lesser known works -
http://www.atherden.com/Vivaldi/concertos.html
12 Jan 11 Good years - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/reciprocity.html
20 Feb 11 After he left the Imperial Russian Navy - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/scheherazade.html
01 Mar 11 Old and new days - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/southernCentral.html
28 May 11 Hermitting - http://www.atherden.com/Herman'sHermits/jeSuisAnglais.html
16 Jun 11 Not history: a different era -
http://www.atherden.com/TheRedGuard/redSquare.html
06 Sep 11 A long way down - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/fullMoon.html
11 Aug 11 A political statement on the London riots by no less than Ringo:
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/redKen.html
10 Sep 11 A translation as promised -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/laLuneBlanche.html
gNot a particularly good rendition in the audio sense, andg
gmy transliteration of Verlaine's work is probably a bit dubious.
Should really be in the Words folder.... :|
20 Aug 11 À partir de la France ça existé une fois -
http://www.atherden.com/Offenbach/gaîtéParisienne.html
19 Oct 11 La nourriture est bien aussi - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/etDeLaBelgique.html
19 Nov 11 To sleep, perchance to dream - http://www.atherden.com/Dvorak/symphonicPoems.html
28 Nov 11 Christmas in Italy - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/christmasConcertos.html
21 Jan 14 Gustav Holst's Choral Symphony, No. 41 -
http://www.atherden.com/Holst/choralSymphony.html
08 Feb 12 Two excerpts from Prince Igor - http://www.atherden.com/Borodin/excerptsIgor.html
12 Feb 12 Tchaikovsky's Winter Journey -
http://www.atherden.com/Tchaikovsky/winterDreams.html
16 Mar 12 From the Moscow Conservatory - http://www.atherden.com/Kabalevsky/pianoSonatas.html
22 Apr 12 Somewhat spatially oriented - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/spatial.html
16 May 12 A selection of violin, string, piano and orchestra by Joseph Haydn....
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/konzerteHaydn.html
15 Jul 12 The last minute or so of Borodin's Prologue for Prince Igor -
http://www.atherden.com/Borodin/crescendoIgor.html
06 Aug 12 Debussy and d'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian -
http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/leMartyre.html
14 Aug 12 Some final pieces by Borodin - http://www.atherden.com/Borodin/otherWorks.html
21 Aug 12 An inspiration to those in cloisters - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/porterhouse.html
28 Aug 12 A selection of Vivaldi's concertos for string -
http://www.atherden.com/Vivaldi/stringConcertos.html
gI will have to admit that I only knew
gG major, No. 36, RV 150 beforehand.
08 Sep 12 From Kiev actually - http://www.atherden.com/Glière/symphoniesRedPoppy.html
14 Oct 12 The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/dieSiebenLetztenWorte.html
28 Dec 12 Debussy's only ballet - http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/jeux.html
12 Jun 13 The Germanesque disco era - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/boney.html
19 Jun 13 The complete Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev -
http://www.atherden.com/Prokofiev/danceOfTheKnights.html
08 Feb 16 A bit less than tertiary - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/subjectiveTable.html
26 Sep 13 More literal than expected - http://www.atherden.com/Words/nonideosyncratic.html
16 Sep 13 Alessandro Marcello's not recitative thoughts -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/oboeConcertoMovementTwo.html
- or perhaps not....
04 Mar 14 Something I heard played by the horns (accompanied by a piano and strings)
of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/Brahms/trioInEFlatOp40Finale.html
08 Apr 14 Un opéra par Claude Debussy -
http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/pelléasEtMélisande.html
23 Apr 14 Carpets and music from the bazaar - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/aladdinSuite.html
11 Jul 14 Actually, it's the last stanzas of the second part of Act IV that get me -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/laForzaDelDestino.html
05 Aug 14 Je suis désolé, mais c'est impressionniste - http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/laMer.html
13 Nov 14 Orchestral media - http://www.atherden.com/Stravinsky/compositeurRusse.html
21 Nov 14 A knightly rendition - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/whiteSatin.html
21 Jan 15 The Perfect Fool by Gustav Holst -
http://www.atherden.com/Holst/perfectFool.html
08 Jun 15 The Balleys of Swansea - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/theBalleys.html
16 Sep 15 To all those wild-eyed loners at the gates of oblivion out there -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/livingDoll.html
Sorry Mac users, but the Windows Media file was large enough already....
06 Oct 15 Cinq pièces par Georges Bizet - http://www.atherden.com/Bizet/jeuxD'Enfants.html
13 Oct 15 The dress and the hair encouraged the stylish decade that followed -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/funktastic.html
18 May 16 A tribute to Elvis Costello and to Felicity Lemon -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/missLemonAndElvis.html
14 Jun 16 Pre-Elizabethan groove - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/tudorFabFour.html
11 Apr 17 From the Viennese school - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/classicalPeriod.html
01 May 17 From the almost certainly pre-pharmacutilically-induced music of the Sixties -
http://www.atherden.com/Mod/weReallyMeanIt.html
21 Jul 17 Retro pop from 2015 - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/somethingInTheWater.html
18 Sep 15 An extensive page name for the right impression -
http://www.atherden.com/Debussy/etSansLesImpressionistesEtSymbolistes.html
22 Dec 17 Variations by Nielsen - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/nielsenAfvekslingerne.html
06 Feb 18 And from Booker T and the MG's -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/greenOnions.mp4
I am sadly unaware of who produced the accompanying video, but they
deserve our admiration for it. The guy in the white
shirt and black pants in the sparsely funished house, or
or unkempt bar needs your approval too....
12 Apr 18 Did funk really die in the Eighties?
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/evenFunkier.html
11 Jun 18 Paganini's 1818 Violin Concerto No. 1 - http://www.atherden.com/Hall/paganiniNo1.html
29 Oct 18 Et des notes plus précédentes de 17e Siècle -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/Rameau/deuxTragédieLyriques.html
05 Feb 19 While a Mungo Santamaria sounds like an ethnically confused café in said vicinity -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/portobelloMan.html
ghis version of this 1962 track is nowhere near being as offensive as my
renotiation of its postcodes.
08 Mar 19 Drei Auftritte einer Oper von Christoph Gluck -
http://www.atherden.com/Hall/Gluck/orfeoEdEuridice.html
30 Jul 19 Your romantic prescription is here -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/ferryChemist.html
09 Apr 20 Admittedly the title gives nothing away -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/aNonParadisaicDean.html
08 May 20 But it's not like they're on T.V. much?
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/squeeze.html
22 May 20 Socially I wasn't much fun in the Eighties - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/switchblade.html
22 Jun 20 From Pinkpop '83 in Holland -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/neunundneunzig.html
10 Aug 20 Impressionistic rusticity - http://www.atherden.com/Bartók/stringQuartets.html
02 Nov 20 It's theme and tune have been copied by Hollywood -
http://www.atherden.com/redArmyChoir/volgaBoatmen.html
14 Dec 20 And leading to the Boogidy Beat - http://www.atherden.com/Popular/rappersDelight.html
12 Apr 21 These would've been one of Stalin's least favorite rock bands -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/mongoloid.html
18 May 21 Nothing but the Anglicised spelling of a Cyrillic word that was
used for the name of a German rock hit -
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/komissar.html
31 May 23 Why on earth have my last three pop tracks all had a Russian/Soviet link?
http://www.atherden.com/Popular/comradelyMothers.html
     

 

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