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A cinematic performance of PÄteris Vasksās Vox Amoris, Bachās āIch ruf zu dirā, and Arnold Schoenbergās āVerklƤrte Nacht by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Discovered it on Kanopy but canāt find the full thing anywhere else for free. They have Vox Amoris on YouTube (linked).
Played it while making breakfast this morning. It deserved more of my attention but part of the total enjoyment was seeing which moments in the compositions caught me and pulled me out of my daily motions. It was my first time hearing Vox Amoris (a composition written for the violinist Richard Tognetti and ACO) and it moved me to wet wet tears while I scrambled my eggs.
It had also been awhile since I listened to VerklƤrte Nacht / Transfigured Night in its entirety. Truthfully, for a while, the Spotify-ication of my brain rendered me unable to listen to a full album or composition and I would just skip to IV Sehr breit und langsam because it left a mark on me. Listening to it in full again, I almost felt ashamed that I had been circumventing the story, jumping to the chapter I liked, and limiting myself to being moved rather than transformed. It is, after all, about the redemptive power of love. We canāt be redeemed if weāre unwilling to become something new.
āYou have brought the glow into me,
You have made me like a child myself.ā
Feb 17, 2025
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