What is your Playlist

As a skilled professional in graphic design I go to work everyday and creatively layout a catalog. It's more like putting together a puzzle who's picture you've never seen, and despite it being technical in some areas, it does require an artist's eye in order to create a page that the viewer of the catalog is happy to read. Happy readers = happy buyers, we make money - I stay employed....

My work day goes as any other work day goes and at some point during the day I either hook myself up to itunes or to some radio talk show, both of which helps to alleviate the boredom of eight hours of doing the same thing day after day.

But it's not the same at home in the studio....

I have found that in order to create a mood which inspires the piece which I am creating, I have to choose carefully. I have old stand-by's who I return to time and time again, which put me in that mental place that helps me to focus on the mood of the work I am attempting to create.

Which then begs me to ask:
How much thought do you put into the music you play, or the story you listen to when you work on your art?

Here is a short list of music to which I like to listen:

Trivium - Excerpt by composer Respere
performed by Camerata Talllinn
(Now if anyone can locate the entire composition on this piece and let me know where I can buy it, I will forever be in your debt.)

The Fog is Lifting for flute and harp
(I don't have the composer's name on this)

Secret Garden - the group, my favorite album by this set is called White Stones

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

and then to the land of the living:
Wynton Marsalis, I will listen to anything performed by this guy.

and this is just a list for the days I am working on paintings.
What I listen to in the car - is very different.

I find it fascinating that I use one artist's work to inspire another.
In closing, I would love to know what inspires you when working. It's just too bad we don't have a place to share all theses pieces between us.