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You really must sort out your iPlayer.

The Composer of the week this week was Victoria who died 400 years ago this week.

5 Marvelous programmes ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013m2cm/Composer_of_the_Week_Tomas_Luis_de_Victoria_%2815481611%29_A_Life_in_the_Service_of_God/

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Is that what you call a lusty Parisian with little on? [6]

Thanks will get hold of it.

Only thing missing is her splendid Dido

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Have you got a reference for that collection?  I recognise several of the recordings but would love to have them all together.

She gave a memorable recital in Oxford in the 60s which I was lucky enough to hear...

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Messiaen  is tremendous, but you only get the full effect live

Often mysterious and contemplative, but totally exuberant  as in this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08AAB5hgOk&feature=related

I think he had his tongue in cheek as it was written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the first performance was conducted by Bernstein...

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For the next time you have one of those magic evenings...

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#p/c/E9217B9296D1D085/1/fvDp7SqnaVw

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[quote user="ViVienne"]loving your new avatar, didn't realise you had been around for that long :-)[/quote]

Just feels like it.

Some see me more as Victor Meldrew [:P]

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I suffered for you!!

I used Internet Explorer 9 to try to play my links[geek]

It didn't work.[:(], so you are not to blame...

I think you need to download the latest version of Flash player compatible with IE

At the top of the Youtube link there was the option 'télécharger'

perhaps you should try that.

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I may be wrong (note the time and date of that rare phrase ) but if you have Adobe on  your computer it should work in all browsers

It might depend on the version and if it is up to date

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Linking Mendelssohn, Chorales,  and unfortunate current events, this seems appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQSCeporv0

Click on 'show more' for a translation..

Or this version, by a New Zeland youth choir (no sign of any 'hoodies' here...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlHDLGt7NOM&feature=related

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Not a chorale, but some  chorale preludes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6MlY3MVQ0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdbYTa2LkeA&feature=related

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

Oh mankind bewail thy great sins..

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012wyjc/BBC_Proms_2011_Proms_Chamber_Music_PCM_03_Les_Talens_Lyriques/

Lovely Prom with French Baroque

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Longer version of the Mendelssohn psalm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaveu09DOYE&feature=related

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Do listen to the Norrington Eroica. You may hate it but I find it bursting with life

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#g/c/53C3B211986CB506

The Horns in the trio of the Scherzo are wonderfully German rustic

Second movement:

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#p/c/53C3B211986CB506/1/2bUynSV7D_A

you can buy special computer speakers for about 30/40 €  , but make sure they have a separate bass unit

http://www.amazon.fr/tag/enceintes%20pour%20pc/products

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Two versions of the violin concerto

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#g/c/9B66D6595EE3BCDB

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#g/c/920411111192DB75

3rd Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#g/c/CE65670D531CEAFA

Ave Maria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ys-3Uox4Sg&feature=related

and some other choral Music

http://www.youtube.com/user/stigekalder#p/c/E034FCA17F8BACCE

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwGpO2hz9ZA

PIano music: two versions of Variations serieseuses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFtN6zRBJQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8VCyD5I5I4&feature=related

Song without words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEsik0cVI8

Ive also added a Schumann Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections#g/c/7FF88C80D855B51F

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A fair wind and a prosperous voyage [:)]

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A brilliant collection of videos on  YouTube, including 2 Brahms symphonies conducted by Carlos Kleiber, an incandescent Eroica with Roger Norrington, and the B minor Mass with Harnoncourt.

It helps if you have computer speakers as I mentioned before...

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDvideocollections

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In fact I watched it on iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013csn0/BBC_Proms_2011_Simon_Bolivar_Symphony_Orchestra/

but I  know you can't watch BBC on your computer

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And this lovely version of Fauré

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMKyTAe6yeM

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I know you are not having a lot of luck with iPlayer.

You might like to look at this on Arte7

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/concert_d_ouverture_du_festival_de_salzbourg_2011-4056116.html

the opening concert of the Salzburg festival

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I am always a bit behind.

I just caught up with the Walton Violin concerto with Midori....I knewteh viola Concerto before , but not this.

Will listen later to Tamsin Little.  She had a great reputation with some of the violin students at Wells that I used to accompany sometimes

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/20/william-christie-baroque-music-interview

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/c/william_christie/index.html

I am not by nature an envious person, but his life is one I would have like to have had in many ways.

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I still prefer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkQuvn45l-Q

Even with a yank as conductor[;-)]

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Have you got it open twice?

Or is it opening another programme and playing at the same time itself?

  I have that sometimes when I use adsl.tv

I open  adsl and it also opens vlc player so I have the sound twice at slightly different times.

iPlayer on the radio works very well for me though, and the Victoria programme is a real delight

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Sent you a pm sweet

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I bought some cheap computer speakers with a separate bass unit (about 45 Euros) which improve the sound on my computer enormously.

Not quite as good as quality HiFi, but a vast improvement on normal computer sound, and a great help for listening to the radio, watching TV or playing CDs on the computer.

As I am 'fauché' I use the computer for all these functions.