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The Stabat Mater dates back to the 13th century and details Mary’s pain at the Crucifiction. One of the absolute hardest Christian hymns, this arrangement was composed while Pergolesi was dying of tuberculosis in the 1730s.
‘Fac ut portem Christi mortem,
passiónis fac consórtem,
et plagas recólere.’ (Grant that I might bear the death of Christ,
Make [me] kindred in the passion,
and contemplate the wounds.)
Just cannot recommend it enough ffo dark and disturbing hymns and the baroque. Still working through all the available recordings but favs currently are the 1985 LSO and the 2013 I Barocchisti. Will come back and update with definitive ranking xx
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The whole thing sound majestic to me, but the third movement?? This shit slaps and is different. ok it is perhaps gimmicky next to the more traditional adjacent parts, because it’s almost entirely chorale. But it can be someone’s hook into the piece. Sounds middle eastern but somehow not maquamic?? Then you realize it might be Jewish.. but not klezmeric, more cantorial. Which it turns out to be indeed — recorded at the synagogue of Great Ades (ha) in Jerusalem.
so so beautiful..
Jan 17, 2024
Whatever cocktail of angst, melancholy and adrenaline that homie was drinking back in 1901 when he finished writing the second movement of Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, I feel it.
This rendition by Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason is my absolute favourite– the emotion they're both putting into playing the piece is palpable and absolutely phenomenal.
BONUS REC: If you like working to classical music, I recommend to give the full sonata a listen (it’s like ~30 mins of complete intensity & beauty)
Aug 8, 2024
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* Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade
* Dvorak — New World Symphony
* Rachmaninoff — The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody
* Debussy and Satie performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
* Bartok — Orchestral Works
* Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring
* Walton — Death of Falstaff (most beautiful and heartrending song ever written?)
Dec 18, 2024
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Jan 29, 2024
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vibe is immaculate…eight of us in and we’re all working very hard…no music over the tannoy so I can work out to weyes blood for once…a woman GIGGLED with me as we both tried to add our disinfectant wipes to the overflowing bin on our way out…you simply do not get this on a Wednesday evening
Mar 9, 2024
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leave! go home to bed! just fucking go if you’re not having a nice time at the opening of the lesbian tapas bar on broadway market because none of the rude east london lesbians will make eye contact with you and you feel very self conscious! listen to philip glass on the bus home and think about how you don’t need the rude east london lesbians anyway!!!!!
Feb 15, 2024