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@todger200 This is a charming film. Thanks for revealing the picturesque corners of my old home town. But I can't help feeling sad when I remember how lively and bustling the town was before the planners got hold of it in the 60s. The centre's an empty shell now.

@sukadui You need to lighten up, my Russian friend. This is not "cheap" or "stupid"; it's just an amusing diversion and doesn't pretend to be anything more.

Excellent mezzo. Any idea who it is?

The land of my childhood! Buzzard, young coots, immature mallard, cuckoo pint berries, sycamore keys, gatekeeper butterfly, the hoverflies Syrphus ribesii and Volucella bombylans (I think), red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and blue-tailed damselfly, the commonest damselfly in Cheshire. Be...

If you spend more time on computer keys than piano keys, you must be a fantastic computerist by now! Thank you for introducing me to this lovely piece - I'm going to learn it.

I have this recording on vinyl, but it's all crackly now, through obsessive listening in my distant student days. Thanks for uploading a better copy.

The words are from an anonymous "macaronic" (ie a mixture of English and Latin) poem of the 13th century. Britten only set three of the five verses.

The acoustics weren't on your side, but beautifully played!

I used to listen to this piece every night before retiring to bed. It's in the last three minutes (after the harmonics) that it goes beyond mere beauty and becomes sublime. The musical ideas drift apart and seem to lose their way, but muted horns draw them back together again. The reassembling i...