Musing's musings

Friday Random 10, God, it's hot edition

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Stacked Actors (Foo Fighters, There is Nothing Left to Lose)
2. Argue (Matchbox 20, Yourself or Someone Like You)
3. Rise Up (Nemesis, Rise Up)
4. Coventry Carol (The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter, Christmas with the Cambridge Singers)
5. Homeland Security (Lewis Black, Rules of Enragement)
6. Everlasting Grace Is Yours (David Haas, Where The River Flows)
7. Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, iv. Allegro molto (Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner, Beethoven: Nine Symphonies)
8. Because Our Love Is Real (Erasure, Nightbird)
9. Snakes in Schubas (Jason Mraz, Selections for Friends)
10. Gaîté Parisienne: Allegro (The Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler, Gaîté Parisienne)

Friday Random 10, I'm not dead edition

Regular readers may have noticed that this regular post did not appear last week. That was because I was temporarily without a computer and internet access while on a brief family, well, "vacation" isn't quite the word. But I'm back home this week and the computer's power issue has been fixed, so here goes.

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Music for the Royal Fireworks, Overture (The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, Music for the Royal Fireworks)
2. Mystery Sonata No. 1 (Apollo's Fire, Noels & Carols from the Old World)
3. Prelude No. 9 in E (Evgeny Kissin, Chopin: 24 Preludes)
4. Lights (Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah)
5. Pax Deorum (Enya, The Memory of Trees)
6. Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829, iii. Corrente (Igor Kipnis, Bach: Keyboard Partitas)
7. Remembrance Day (Bryan Adams, Into the Fire)
8. You Alone Know Our Hunger (David Haas, Where the River Flows)
9. "Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahlen" (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Antal Dorati, Haydn: Die Schöpfung)
10. Bella Luna (Jason Mraz, Mr. A-Z)

Friday Random 10, Sunset Boulevard edition

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Chorus (Erasure, Chorus)
2. Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et de religieuses, Gloria, I. Dialogue sur les grands jeux (Jean-Baptiste Robin, François Couperin: Organ Masses)
3. Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2, "Tempest," iii. Allegretto (Steven Lubin, Beethoven: The Piano Concertos)
4. Wild Child (Enya, A Day Without Rain)
5. Tell Me Ma (Gaelic Storm, Gaelic Storm)
6. Das Wohltempierte Klavier, Book 1: Prelude in B major, BWV 866 (Daniel Barenboim, Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier)
7. Dona nobis pacem from the Missa in Tempore Belli ("Paukenmesse"), Hob. XXII (English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner, Haydn: Heiligmesse and Paukenmesse)
8. Lazy Days (Enya, A Day Without Rain)
9. Lilies of the Field (John Michael Talbot, Signatures)
10. Variation on a Theme by Josef Haydn, Op. 56a, Variation IV: Andante con moto (Staatskapelle Dresden, Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn)

Friday Random 10

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. One and Only (Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked Ladies Are Men)
2. Riu riu chiu (Apollo's Fire, Noels and Carols from the Old World)
3. Sonata in D minor, K. 141 (Igor Kipnis, The Virtuoso Scarlatti)
4. Dixit Dominus in D, ix. Gloria (The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood, Vivaldi: Gloria)
5. Kpanlogo (Knox College Choir/Laura Lane, Knox College Choir 2002)
6. J. S. Bach, Suite in E-flat major, i. Allemande (Micaela Comberti/Colin Tilney, The Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord)
7. Magnificat antiphon: Nativitas tua Mode II (Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Gregorian Chant)
8. The Dreame (Jane Eaglen, Soundtrack to Sense and Sensibility)
9. Sonata in C major, K. 330, iii. Allegretto (Daniel Barenboim, Mozart: The Piano Sonatas)
10. Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, B WV 1009, vi. Gigue (Yo-Yo Ma, Bach: The Cello Suites)

Friday Random 10

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Dona nobis pacem (Patrick Ball, The Christmas Rose)
2. Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060, iii. Allegro (The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, Bach: Concertos for Two Harpsichords)
3. Seek First the Kingdom (David Haas, No Longer Strangers)
4. Fum, Fum Fum (Inner Voices, Christmas Harmony)
5. Wondrous Love (Marty Haugen, Wondrous Love)
6. At Evening (David Haas, You Are Mine)
7. Midnight Kiss (Gaelic Storm, Tree)
8. The Arrival of the Wren Boys (The Chieftains, The Bells of Dublin)
9. Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: i, Prélude (Yo-Yo Ma, Bach: The Cello Suites)
10. Wildest Dreams (Asia, Asia)

Friday Random 10

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1040, ii. Affetuoso (The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, J. S. Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte)
2. Too Much Food (Jason Mraz, Tonight, Not Again)
3. Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314, i. Allegro aperto (The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood, Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Oboe Concerto)
4. Headwires (Foo Fighters, There is Nothing Left to Lose)
5. Song of the Body of Christ (David Haas, Creating God)
6. Polichinelle (Edith Piaf, The Very Best of Edith Piaf)
7. Fantasia No. 39 (Paul O'Dette, Lute Music)
8. Das Wohltempierte Klavier, Book I: Fugue in B minor, BWV 869 (Daniel Barenboim, Bach: Well Tempered Clavier)
9. Claudio Monteverdi, Rimanti in pace (The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley, Il terzo libro dei madrigali)
10. The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence)

Friday Random 10

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Gardening at Night (R.E.M., Eponymous)
2. McCloud's Reel/Whup Jamboree (Gaelic Storm, Gaelic Storm)
3. All Things New Again (The Wallflowers, Rebel, Sweetheart)
4. Canzon Terza in A minor (Cleveland Brass Ensemble, The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli)
5. Nigra sum, sed formosa, from Canticum canticorum (Chanticleer, Palestrina: Missa pro defunctis)
6. Variatio 7, al tempo di Giga (Ton Koopman, J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations)
7. Send Me an Angel (Scorpions, Crazy World)
8. Canzona per Sonare No. 2 (Cleveland Brass Ensemble, The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli)
9. Dixit Dominus in D: i. Dixit Dominus (The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood, Vivaldi: Gloria)
10. Midare (Takasago Katsumi, The Soul of the Koto)

Friday Random 10, It's good to be home edition

I think mine may have been one of the last flights to make it into O'Hare yesterday afternoon before the strong winds snarled traffic. Took awhile longer than I would have liked, but I did make it home safe and sound yesterday afternoon, and had the distinct pleasure of sleeping in my own bed last night--if not as well as I would have liked, thanks to some weather.

But, while a little groggy still, I'm back home and settling back into a regular routine. So, with no further ado, here's this week's edition of the Random 10.

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Hills of Connemara (Gaelic Storm, Gaelic Storm)
2. Four Variations on "Guárdame las vacas" (Göran Söllscher, The Renaissance Album)
3. I'm With Stupid (Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental)
4. Corrente 2a (Paul O'Dette, Baroque Lute Music)
5. Jane (Barenaked Ladies, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits)
6. Romance (R.E.M., Eponymous)
7. Laudate Dominum (Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Palestrina: Offertoria)
8. Catch Your Wave (The Click Five, Greetings from Imrie House)
9. William Byrd, Kyrie and Gloria from the Mass for Three Voices (Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks, Byrd: Three Mases/Taverner: 'Western Wind' Mass)
10. Wernher von Braun (Tom Lehrer, The Remains of Tom Lehrer)

Friday Random 10, Paris edition

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269 (The Four Seasons), "Spring," ii. Largo (Candida Thompson et al., Vivaldi: The Four Seasons)
2. Piper's Pavan, DP8 (David Russell, Renaissance Favorites for Guitar)
3. Pax Deorum (Enya, The Memory of Trees)
4. Partita for Keyboard No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826: vi. Capriccio (Igor Kipnis, Bach: Solo Partitas)
5. Hewlett's Set (Gaelic Storm, Herding Cats)
6. The Folk Song Army (Tom Lehrer, The Remains of Tom Lehrer)
7. Georg Frideric Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, Bourrée (The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, Music for the Royal Fireworks)
8. Away We Go Again (The Chieftains, The Chieftains 7)
9. O-Mahonny's (Gaelic Storm, Herding Cats)
10. Thomas Tallis, O Lord, in Thee is All My Trust (The Tallis Scholars, The Complete English Anthems)

Friday Random 10, waiting for Pentecost edition

It's the end of another long week plowing through dusty dossiers (amazing how dirty my fingers get in the course of an eight-hour day!), and on top of that it was laundry day. But tomorrow I'm taking a tour around part of the Route des Vins--all by myself ;-9

Here's how we play our little game: Take out your iPod or other musical device. Put it in "random" mode. Hit "play." Write down the first ten tracks that come up--and no fair putting in ones you think will make you look cool, or omitting ones that make you look like a total dork.

Here are mine for today:

1. This Joyful Eastertide (The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter, Faire is the Heaven)
2. Claudio Monteverdi, Quell' ombr'esser vorrei (The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley, Il secondo libro dei madrigali)
3. Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: vi. Gigue (Yo-Yo Ma, Bach: The Cello Suites)
4. Benjamin Britten, A New Year Carol (The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter, Christmas With the Cambridge Singers)
5. Ouverture Solenelle "1812," Op. 49 (The Minneapolis Symphony/Antal Dorati, Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien; Beethoven: Wellington's Victory)
6. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, "Moonlight," Op. 27, i. Adagio sostenuto (Alfred Brendel, Beethoven: Piano Sonatas)
7. Walking in the Air (George Winston, Forest)
8. Magnificat in G Minor, I. Magnificat (The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood, Vivaldi: Gloria)
9. W. A. Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 (Richard Proulx and the Cathedral Singers, Catholic Latin Classics)
10. Can't Take it With You (The Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid)

Guess I used up all the good pop stuff while I was doing laundry this afternoon. But there's some good stuff in there anyway.