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This vocal offering from Ian Bostridge, here starting the Schubert song cycle Winterreise, is in appropriately sombre mood. One of our fellow ABForummers has just recently been introduced to the Art song. What better example than this?
Bedrich Smetana's The Moldau, one of six pieces celebrating his country in his materpiece, Ma Vlast, gives us repose. The depth and beauty he saw in this great river is easily felt in this vey popular symphonic poem.
And the last contribution to today's Sunday Classical collection is a thrilling performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen and I have waited to post this since Griffin posted the Valse Sentimentale by Tchaikovsky two Sundays ago, which reminded me of it.
I dedicate this to those brave and noble souls overcoming their own trials and tribulations to prepare entertainment for us while others can only look on and post pieces on Sunday for their own Satiety.
Sorry to hear that Becca.. pm me if you want/need to talk .
Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley
Thanks everyone. I'm doing alright. One foot in front of the other. Unfortunately I'm at that age where my family will start going to the great gig in the sky. Nothing to do but work through it and be supportive for my family.
Learning Satie has now become tied up with honoring my uncle (don't ask me why I don't understand my own brain at the best of times) so practicing now is got a bit of a punch to it.
Good always comes from bad. Hope your all doing well.
Thanks everyone. I'm doing alright. One foot in front of the other. Unfortunately I'm at that age where my family will start going to the great gig in the sky. Nothing to do but work through it and be supportive for my family.
Learning Satie has now become tied up with honoring my uncle (don't ask me why I don't understand my own brain at the best of times) so practicing now is got a bit of a punch to it.
Good always comes from bad. Hope your all doing well.
Becca, I think it's a beautiful way to honor your uncle with your piano selection. It will give even deeper meaning to it all.
Thanks a lot, Richard for such a great selections for Sunday Classical! Your sacrifice for Griffin's practice is quite admirable, but you're not going to be excused for our next-to-next recital on Mendelssohn anyway.
Great Sunday classical postings Richard! Thanks again for agreeing to take these on! I am looking forward to what you have in store for us next time. Best regards!
At last I could listen to the Sunday postings. Excellent job Richard, you made fantastic choices.
BTW, I had heard of this dramatized video of Ian Bostridge singing the Winterreise, but I hadn’t watched it before, and was curious. The first lied is amazingly sung. I see the whole video is uploaded to Youtube… Wow.
During a formal dinner party at the lavish mansion of Señor Edmundo Nobile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women, Blanca, plays a piano sonata. Later, when they might normally be expected to return home, the guests unaccountably remove their jackets, loosen their gowns, and settle down for the night on couches, chairs and the floor.
Eventually, several sheep and a bear break loose from their bonds and find their way to the room; the guests take in the sheep and proceed to slaughter and roast them on fires made from floorboards and broken furniture. Dr. Conde reveals to Nobile that one of his patients, Leonora, is dying from cancer and accepts a secret supply of morphine from the host to keep her fit. The supply of drugs is however stolen by Francis and Juana, an incestuous brother and sister. Ana, a crazed guest and a practitioner of witchcraft, invokes the demons of heck while lapsing into feverish hallucinations.
Eventually, Raúl suggests that Nobile is responsible for their predicament and that he must be sacrificed. Only Dr. Conde and the noble Colonel Alvaro oppose the angry mob claiming Nobile's blood. As Nobile offers to take his own life, a young, foreign guest, Letitia (nicknamed "La Valkiria") sees that they are all in the same positions as when their plight began. Obeying her instructions, the group starts reconstructing their conversation and movements from the night of the party and discover that they are then free to leave the room. Outside the manor, the guests are greeted by the local police and the servants that had left the house on the night of the party.
To give thanks for their salvation, the guests attend a Te Deum at the cathedral. When the service is over, the churchgoers along with the clergy are also trapped. It is not entirely clear though, whether those that were trapped in the house before are now trapped again. They seem to have disappeared. The situation in the church is followed by a riot on the streets and the military step in to brutally clamp down on the rioters. The last scene shows a pack of sheep entering the church in a row, accompanied by the sound of gunshots.
for all the satists amongst us, here is a video from the past showing john cales ( ex V/underground) participation in a satie "event"
the event was saties "vexations"...... 840 repeats needs a few folks in relays....
maybe one for after the mendelssohn?
please no!! lol.
wayne if you are going to be surreal, you need to warn us first!LOL.
I didnt know what was going on till I read the other thread..
I thought you was writing about last nights dream!
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Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley