Sunday, 4 October 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
Cantate 140
two very happy memories in one post
1) Glasgow uni.
2) The Bach, links back to a most wonderful evening almost a year ago now.
Friday, 25 September 2009
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
I have waited so so so long to make this post
The sun is warm
the world is beutiful
EVERYTHING went right.
Monday, 21 September 2009
Saturday, 19 September 2009
The Worst form of violence
Think about it... the industrial revolution finished less than a century ago, and the living conditions of the working class well into the 1960's. This ent dickens novel stuff, people were dying in their thousands, from London to Moscow... and people just sat and watched it happen.
Think about it.
and while your at it, listen to this.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Music yearning like a god in pain.
I'm not really one for string quartets/Quintets, but there are a good few pieces that most defiantly deserve some recognition
Mozarts String Quintet in G Minor is one, the fact that being in a minor key it manages to keep upbeat makes for very interesting listening
Borodins Quartet no.2 3rd movement is stunning, and why it's not better recognised is totally beyond me.
Rachmaninov's Romance... I don't really need to say anything
Hayden String Quartet in D minor, dramatic, but in a good way.
I shan't post anymore here, but perhaps go and listen to some more, these aren't the only ones worth listening to.
A note on the picture, it is of course the girl in the poem "Eve of St Agnes" by Keats, from which the title of this post is taken
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