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What are you listening to? Part III
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Alexandre Desplat's sound track for Ang Lee's 2007 film Lust, Caution. The movie is based on Eileen Chang's 1979 novel. This track is Wong Chia's Theme:
Great choice: I love the music of Alexandre Desplat - his soundtracks for Fantastic Mr Fox and Grand Hotel Budapest are brilliant (and redolent with those signature notes of his that call to mind an aching bitter-sweet world).
Listening to some Neil Young at the moment. While Harvest is not my favorite album of his, there are some great songs on it.
Original Sin - INXS. (And others - such as Disappear, Never Tear Us Apart, Mystify, By My Side, Beautiful Girl, among others).
Over the past days:
Blue Hour, 19th Century works for Clarinet, played by Andreas Ottensamer
Had the disk on repeat most of the day Wednesday… just loads of lovely pieces… proving there is more to the clarinet than Mozart's soundtrack to "Out of Africa".
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson — Virðulegu Forsetar (Yes, I did have to copy and paste that title!)
65 minutes+ One musical phrase repeated, varied, repeated…
Lovely music to work by, meditate by… dream out the window with…
What might have been had he not died of a cocaine overdose at 48.
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Shostakovich's finest Symphony (IMHO)
No. 11 "The Year 1905"
New recording by Andris Nelsons and the BSO…
A new favourite. I still fancy Simon Bychkov's late 1990s version. But this one has a compelling savagery — not short on the lyrical side — especially Movement 3: Eternal Memory… leading into an astonishing 4th Movement: The Tocsin.
Finally!
My favourite Schumann song: Dichterliebe - 7. Ich grolle nicht
Peter Lodahl, tenor
And the Marimba works a treat… just lovely.
"I do not chide you, though my heart breaks, love ever lost to me!
Though you shine in a field of diamonds, no ray falls into your heart's darkness.
I have long known it: I saw the night in your heart, I
saw the serpent that devours it:
I saw, my love, how empty you are."
Blue Hour, 19th Century works for Clarinet, played by Andreas Ottensamer
Had the disk on repeat most of the day Wednesday… just loads of lovely pieces… proving there is more to the clarinet than Mozart's soundtrack to "Out of Africa".
**********************
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson — Virðulegu Forsetar (Yes, I did have to copy and paste that title!)
65 minutes+ One musical phrase repeated, varied, repeated…
Lovely music to work by, meditate by… dream out the window with…
What might have been had he not died of a cocaine overdose at 48.
**********************
Shostakovich's finest Symphony (IMHO)
No. 11 "The Year 1905"
New recording by Andris Nelsons and the BSO…
A new favourite. I still fancy Simon Bychkov's late 1990s version. But this one has a compelling savagery — not short on the lyrical side — especially Movement 3: Eternal Memory… leading into an astonishing 4th Movement: The Tocsin.
Finally!
My favourite Schumann song: Dichterliebe - 7. Ich grolle nicht
Peter Lodahl, tenor
And the Marimba works a treat… just lovely.
"I do not chide you, though my heart breaks, love ever lost to me!
Though you shine in a field of diamonds, no ray falls into your heart's darkness.
I have long known it: I saw the night in your heart, I
saw the serpent that devours it:
I saw, my love, how empty you are."
Thanks for the recs!Over the past days:
Blue Hour, 19th Century works for Clarinet, played by Andreas Ottensamer
Had the disk on repeat most of the day Wednesday… just loads of lovely pieces… proving there is more to the clarinet than Mozart's soundtrack to "Out of Africa".
**********************
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson — Virðulegu Forsetar (Yes, I did have to copy and paste that title!)
65 minutes+ One musical phrase repeated, varied, repeated…
Lovely music to work by, meditate by… dream out the window with…
What might have been had he not died of a cocaine overdose at 48.
**********************
Shostakovich's finest Symphony (IMHO)
No. 11 "The Year 1905"
New recording by Andris Nelsons and the BSO…
A new favourite. I still fancy Simon Bychkov's late 1990s version. But this one has a compelling savagery — not short on the lyrical side — especially Movement 3: Eternal Memory… leading into an astonishing 4th Movement: The Tocsin.
Finally!
My favourite Schumann song: Dichterliebe - 7. Ich grolle nicht
Peter Lodahl, tenor
And the Marimba works a treat… just lovely.
"I do not chide you, though my heart breaks, love ever lost to me!
Though you shine in a field of diamonds, no ray falls into your heart's darkness.
I have long known it: I saw the night in your heart, I
saw the serpent that devours it:
I saw, my love, how empty you are."
Oh! This has made me need to go and watch Wong Kar Wai… Days of Being Wild, In the Mood For Love and 2046
2046, just achingly superb.
Big Country - In a Big Country
First time I heard this song was at the local markets on a bright summer day, performed by a group of street performers (one dude had a bagpipe!!)
First time I heard this song was at the local markets on a bright summer day, performed by a group of street performers (one dude had a bagpipe!!)
Over the past days:
Blue Hour, 19th Century works for Clarinet, played by Andreas Ottensamer
Had the disk on repeat most of the day Wednesday… just loads of lovely pieces… proving there is more to the clarinet than Mozart's soundtrack to "Out of Africa".
**********************
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson — Virðulegu Forsetar (Yes, I did have to copy and paste that title!)
65 minutes+ One musical phrase repeated, varied, repeated…
Lovely music to work by, meditate by… dream out the window with…
What might have been had he not died of a cocaine overdose at 48.
**********************
Shostakovich's finest Symphony (IMHO)
No. 11 "The Year 1905"
New recording by Andris Nelsons and the BSO…
A new favourite. I still fancy Simon Bychkov's late 1990s version. But this one has a compelling savagery — not short on the lyrical side — especially Movement 3: Eternal Memory… leading into an astonishing 4th Movement: The Tocsin.
Finally!
My favourite Schumann song: Dichterliebe - 7. Ich grolle nicht
Peter Lodahl, tenor
And the Marimba works a treat… just lovely.
"I do not chide you, though my heart breaks, love ever lost to me!
Though you shine in a field of diamonds, no ray falls into your heart's darkness.
I have long known it: I saw the night in your heart, I
saw the serpent that devours it:
I saw, my love, how empty you are."
Brilliant recommendations; many thanks.
Blue Maqams - as recommended on these very threads quite recently by @mobilehaathi.
Hawaiian music is definitely a perfect antidote for a new round of six-foot glaciers at the end of my driveways after the start of calendar Spring. With the shades long since drawn now, I can imagine that those things I saw earlier in the driveways were just ocean waves splashing up against a corniche. So... I'm listening to some tracks from the score for The Descendants.
