Following the lead of Nick Norelli, I present what my iPod kicked up at me for the first fifteen songs in shuffle mode. Not too embarassing, as it turns out, and a representative cross-section of what’s stored on the thing….
1.) Gustav Holst: Double Concerto for Two Violins III. Variations on a Ground
2.) Get Back (Rehearsal) — The Beatles: Thirty Days
3.) The Christmas Song — Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
4.) Prima Virtus Viri Sancti — Ensemble Organum: Chant Cistercien
5.) Once in a Lifetime — Talking Heads: Sand in the Vaseline 1
6.) Responsorium In die resurrectionis: Versus congregabo gentes — Ensemble Organum: Vêpres du jour de Pâques
7.) I’ll Get You — The Beatles: Past Masters 1
8.) George Frideric Handel, Chandos Anthem No. 11 – Sonata — performed by Harry Christophers: The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra
9.) Maquam “Sultani Iraq” – Samir Tahar: Dreams
10.) Psallit in Aure Dei — Lisa Gerrad and Patrick Cassidy: Immortal Memory
11.) Graduel: Recordatus est Domine — Ensemble Organum: Plain-Chant Parisien
12.) Filigree & Shadow — This Mortal Coil: Filigree and Shadow
13.) Till the Next Goodbye — The Rolling Stones: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
14.) Where the Streets Have No Name — U2: The Joshua Tree
15.) Manuel Cardoso: Kyrie from Requiem Mass, performed by Schola Cantorum of Oxford — Magnum Mysterium I