ROBERT LESLIE FIELDING
Be kind to everyone you meet.
You may never see them again.

Write to be read - be better than you need to be!

Click on these links to get superb music to listen to while you write.

First, and last, read about the memories I have that are evoked when I hear certain pieces of music.

Click on the link below.

http://musicwhileyouwrite.blogspot.com/

Knight Templar being played at Whit Friday at Dobcross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTuEZ0x7Sw&feature=related

Listen to the climactic ending of Mahler's 8th Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYM54vhLYTU

William Tell Overture (from 'Brassed Off')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjMWOzeuRiw&feature=PlayList&p=4C884BE31792F03C&playnext=1&index=65

 

Music in the desert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBFRfYiDNE&NR=1

Majestic music for a majestic, pristine environment - the Sahara Desert - keep it pristine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiSlPqb2PY&feature=related

My own number one - 'Help' by The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibX3TejlZE 

10 minutes of the best - 'Abbey Road' - The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-itc5QeOR4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV2NrAneXME&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE0kfGE7Y4k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gm6__vp5pk&feature=related

Elgar 'Sea Pictures'  Janet Baker, Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra

The swimmer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eh9d01u62k

Where corals lie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8qmMoiI8YM

Mahler's 4th Symphony - 1st mvt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfqXSaEyXU&feature=related

Mahler 5- 2nd movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XxRKsvX8DY&feature=related

And the Adagietto from the same symphony - used in the film, 'Death in Venice'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-eO0hZips&feature=related

And Mahler's adaptation of the song cycle 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ITuOyb2Ek

Richard Strauss - 'Overture - 'Don Juan'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRohaHOQQU&feature=related

'Waltz of the Flowers' by Tchaikovsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3ELt0zPLg

and 'Blue Danube' by the same composer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0VUXLsBSjo&feature=related

Lawrence of Arabia  - film clip and music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aErJB5oxC5A

& Overture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxHLzwlDY4&NR=1

Also by the same composer, Maurice Jarre, 'Lara's Theme' from the film, 'Doctor Zhivago'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IM4kd_tZPM&feature=related

Zadok the priest - Handel - the ceremonial music used at Queen Elizabeth 2's Coronation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W1XJ96y9k

And, 'The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' also by Handel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwj0uq9edo&feature=related

'Music for the royal Fireworks' by George Frederick Handel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38Kw-oG0kE&feature=related

Widor - Toccato from his 5th Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubEO9QsqyeE&feature=related

and here with fireworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zoZwN8BFPE&feature=related

Vivaldi - Four Seasons

'Spring'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-MIDDfckw

Brahms 3rd Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju7jb1rkyK0

Strauss - 'Four Last Songs'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlPm-myghQ

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1zlfWZXDw&feature=related

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppoqUVlKkBU&feature=related

                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWrjDEVrHo&feature=related

Mahler songs

                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaGAjDeagdM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESoy1MpD-Ps&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqIyQ569jNk&feature=related

      Strauss - 'Morgen'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu1eCzHg_8Y&feature=related

Mahler's 6th Symphony - 1st movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5SLbRkTxg

2nd movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWU-UKUdw8M&feature=related

3rd movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydextj1GCS8&feature=related

4th movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKRgFuOrEs&feature=related

And something more tranquil - Handel's Water Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0bHwyK0zfs

I feel fine - I hope you do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PykzyxWYS3Y&feature=related

Farewell to Stromness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3vtouMhsSw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGX9xd8z9A

NB. If you have any favourite pieces of music on Youtube, post me a link in my Guestbook on the homepage and I'll include them on this page.

Thank you

Robert

 

 

The music of Eric Coates - 'The sleepy lagoon'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeS3PsMqfhk&feature=related

Music while you work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwAFdd9Y47Q

Great performers

Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K_IuBsRM4&feature=related

Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Ninth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imv2M64t_og&feature=related

Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' 1st mvt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk