Stanford – Magnificat in C
This has always been one of my favourite settings of the Magnificat and as you can guess from the photo, we had it at our wedding.
30 Mar 2020
When my musical world ground to a halt because of coronavirus, (about a week before the announcement of full lockdown), I decided to console myself by posting a piece of music every day that makes me happy. Friends and family chipped in with ideas too, and I’ve been thrilled at how many people have told me they’ve been following it. As time wore on, I realised that I wouldn’t be able to keep it up forever, so I decided to stop at fifty, and hopefully that will give me and others plenty to dip back into in emergencies.
This has always been one of my favourite settings of the Magnificat and as you can guess from the photo, we had it at our wedding.
My dear friend Jo has suggested this wonderfully happy, laid back music from her other home in Gabon.
Memory of happier times, instead of the Palestrina that I should have been singing in Ushaw chapel this evening
A dose of George’s Marvellous Medicine that I love playing with my friend Fiona because it makes us laugh so much.
Beethoven’s first piano concerto has a cheerfully syncopated rhythm that brings a smile to one of my regular readers, and made me happy today.
The ‘manically joyful’ last movement of Vierne’s Symphnony No1 for organ, chosen by my son who can’t do any organ practice at the moment.
Some gloriously bonkers Brahms to cheer me up because it’s Monday and I should be out with my friends at choir.
For Mothering Sunday, it’s my Mum’s choice on the happiness playlist – Handel’s Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’.
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