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
Mozart 40
1st movement - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2ePGkmopg
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.