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What are you listening to? Part III

I immediately fell in love with Francisco Tárrega's "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" (1896) when I first heard it in about 1999. In the last four years I have bookmarked 16 performances by 15 different musicians. They are all excellent, but they don't inspire me to keep coming back regularly. In the last few months -- since I first heard it --, I do keep coming back regularly to Kim Chung's 2018 performance. In it she plays with such absolute and inspiring certainty, and her tremolo is so utterly flawless, that I never get tired of listening to it (I just now discovered that I'm not the only one who feels this way about her tremolo). See the P.S. for her 2003 and 2006 performances.

Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Francisco Tárrega) - guitarist Kim Chung (2018)

P.S. Her 2003 performance and her 2006 performance.
 
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A popular choir rendition of an old Mexican folk song: "Yo ya me voy amigos".

It reminds me of a song my grandma used to sing when I was little.

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It's raining - again - here in the north pacific coast - a special mood and feeling at this time of the year captured beautifully by this track

Track 04: Rain (Deference for Darkness)
Album: Halo 3 ODST Original Soundtrack
Artist: Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori

 
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I'm glad to know that! :) I had a feeling...

I had never even heard of "The Witcher" TV series, and have never watched it, but I will listen to almost anything by the student orchestras of Poland. I've listened to this performance many times in the past year. I've even made a couple of apathetic friends watch it with me at different times, 😁 but I do believe they were sincerely impressed in spite of their initial apathy.

Even though this particular school orchestra's performance of "The Witcher" was posted a year and a half after it's performance of "Bolero," which I posted here on November 3), you will see a few of the same students among both groups, especially some of the girls in the back row. Once again, I highly recommend 720p or 1080p on a 27" iMac; however, any screen larger than an iPad mini should be acceptable. Ha.

It's an entirely different student orchestra that did a truly inspiring performance of "Danse Macabre" in 2015 (here), but I can't help but think of all of those kids as being from among the same bunch of students.

I've got more of their outstanding performances to share.
 
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