Been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Currently on the Nerdist's interview with Jack Antonoff (of Bleachers and fun.). I highly recommend their episode with Michael McKean.
Actually, the title of Marvin Gaye's album says it all! I've just been playing a playlist of Motown hits form the sixties and seventies whilst on the school run. Now following it up with
Maybe it is because I am new enough to baroque opera to be easily impressed, but I was fascinated by the clip below of Sandrine Piau rehearsing this piece. I think it is partly the lack of costume - seeing a normal person in ordinary clothes suddenly burst into all those vocal gymnastics is more of a shock when they are not dressed up like an opera singer.
Fun to see them trying to get the tempo right too - and just having fun, especially in the second run through - I tend to think of opera as desperately serious. I like peeks behind the curtain of very polished things.
@GP - Thanks for sharing that Piau practice youtube clip. I hadn't seen that particular one before, and I really, really enjoyed it! And I don't think it's because you're easily impressed as a baroque newbie that you did, too.
I own that In Furore album and it's one of the best downloads I ever made. I must have played it a million times. It is so full of fire. There are 2 concertos for violin and organ on the album, and whenever I listen to tracks 16 and 17 of one of them (part of the RV 541 concerto), I marvel at how wonderful this music is - I find it hard to sit still during the allegro and the slower movement can almost make me cry for its utter beauty.
If you're interested at all, I thought I'd mention that there is another album that I always considered sort of a "companion" to the In Furore album because of its tracklist - it includes "Laudate pueri" (RV 600), as opposed to In Furore's "Laudate pueri" (RV 601). Also both albums have concertos for violin and organ. Here's the album cover:
Thanks, @kez, I'll note that for a listen! I just got the In Furore album after watching that clip, and it is full of highlights. I meandered to it via the Piau recording of La Fida Ninfa (which I got because at $6 for three disks it seemed an efficient place to start exploring!)...
Until this past month I have always thought that sopranos were really not my thing, but I love Piau's voice and singing. Track 4 of the In Furore album had me chortling with pleasure on the walk in to work this morning. It's so extravagant and pure at the same time.
@kez, Oh, and that rehearsal clip is also part of a 50 minute video that includes the resulting concert and is also great fun to watch. Having been made to play the recorder at an excruciatingly basic level in school it was eye-opening to see the soloist in the middle concerto (from about 22') and see the greater goods toward which those pathetic efforts were presumably, unbeknown to us, aimed...
Ha a nice surprise...when I bought the 100 Bach tracks + terrible artwork for a dollar it was because I wanted a starting point for the Well Tempered Clavier - Book 1 is included. I didn't even import the Goldbergs into my library, assuming it was a piano version not on a par with the several I have already. Now I go back and have a look and find it's harpsichord, and I've been thinking I should get a harpsichord version. It's like getting a free album. Nice recording too! There's some filler, but for this Goldberg and the Lee Clavier this is a very worthwhile $0.99.
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Free download from Bandcamp. Thanks to Jonah for the Bird is the Worm review and link
Been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Currently on the Nerdist's interview with Jack Antonoff (of Bleachers and fun.). I highly recommend their episode with Michael McKean.
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue
One way to try to stop the theft of grooves is to build a really distinct, unique studio. And then burn it down.
Following Greg and it's much better to listen to grooves than argue about them!
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
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Actually, the title of Marvin Gaye's album says it all! I've just been playing a playlist of Motown hits form the sixties and seventies whilst on the school run. Now following it up with
I think I owe Doofy thanks for this slab of awesomeness. Thanks!
Another sounds of the 70's album
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