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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto in D Major Op. 6 No. 4, complete
he concerto is divided into four movements: Adagio – Allegro Adagio Vivace Allegro – Allegro The concerto lasts approximately 10 minutes depending on performed tempo. The structure of this concerto is unique compared to the other Op. 6 concerti (which has 5+ short, fragmentary movements based on Italian Baroque dances)
Continue readingwmtc: listening to joni: #15: turbulent indigo
Turbulent Indigo, 1994 Front Cover Turbulent Indigo is a rich album, one that demands repeated listening. Every time I hear it, I discover new sounds and meanings, and I find that it has slyly become one of my most beloved of Joni’s work. The name of the album is itself
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, mvt 1
The cadenza: the first case of “shredding” in the history of western music!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Romantic Interlude – Beethoven: Egmont Overture – Apollo’s Fire
Played with passionate fire on period instruments. Marvelous stuff.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Excerpts from Don Quixote – Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Excerpts from Don Quixote Suite Ouverture • Don Quixote awakens • His attack on the windmills
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J S Bach Prelude from Lute Suite No 4 in E Major
Things Are Good: Run The Jewels are the Artists we Need Right Now
Earlier this month Run the Jewels released their most recent album and it’s the music we need for these crazy times. The band effectively captures the tensions felt by people on the ground experience racism, classism, and oppression from the police (and the state at large). Their anger isn’t the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – J.S. Bach: Motet BWV 225 ‘Singet dem Herrn’
1 Coro I/II: S A T B 1 Chorus I [S, A, T, B], Chorus II [S, A, T, B] Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, Die Gemeine der Heiligen sollen ihn loben. Israel freue sich des, der ihn gemacht hat. Die Kinder Zion sei’n fröhlich
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – What You See in the Loft – Mahler – Symphony No.2 ‘Auferstehung’ Resurrection Finale
Boom, the last movement of Mahler just rolled in. You’ve been sitting for at least 50 minutes absorbed in one of the great symphonies… then finally, you get to stand, connect with your singing centre and the conductor and embark on this musical journey. Heavenly doesn’t go far enough.
Continue readingwmtc: listening to joni: #14: night ride home
Night Ride Home, 1991 Although I mostly enjoyed Joni’s previous album, Chalk Mark In a Rainstorm, I still harboured a nagging doubt and vague dislike. Both Chalk Mark (1988) and Dog Eat Dog (1985) didn’t feel like Joni to me. I don’t mean that they didn’t repeat some formula or sound. I
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Cantique de Jean Racine
Choral Standards. 🙂 Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance, Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux ; De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence, Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux ! Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante, Que tout l’enfer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano (Arvo Pärt)
Relax. Breathe. Enjoy.
Continue readingcartoon life: McGilchrist documentary on The Divided Brain
cbcgem.app/6HfDjTTeYbeDgnMF6 Words I can’t think of right now.
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