Lisa

Yes! Ancient and otherworldly…like a husky whisper.

YouTube video by Saulius Petreikis Lithuanian Folk Music, Birbynė, Folk Music for Meditation, Saulius Petreikis, Baltic Vikings

Birbynė
#music

It sounds like the voice of folk music that’s full of memory and melancholy…

I think you will old it very much. I hope you have a good rest of the day!

I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright…

I’ll check out “Elizabeth Cree” —thank you. Definitely outside my comfort zone, so appreciate any suggestions!

YouTube video by Voices of Music Telemann: Viola Concerto in G major TWV 51:G9, I. Largo. Manami Mizumoto, baroque viola 8K

Nite, peeps. Extremely preoccupied, but hoping sleep will eventually win.

“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.”
~Frank O’Hara

Telemann Viola Concerto, G Maj
youtu.be/ot0c-_kjqDA?...
#classicalmusic #poetry #goodnight

I agree on both—and as much as I love the drama of a full orchestra, there’s something about a solo recital with someone of his caliber that is so compelling.

The Largo at 18:04-ish is exquisite, and then melts right into the last movement’s polonaise. Like,
🙋🏻‍♀️ Beethoven: “Let’s Largo, chill, and meditate on existence...”
💁🏻‍♀️ Also Beethoven: “…in a foot-tripping triple meter.”

#ClassicalMusic

YouTube video by France Musique concerts Beethoven : Triple Concerto en do Majeur op 56

Sanity break from scrolling: a Beethoven triple concerto that sounds like spring, with piano, violin, cello taking turns in the sunlight.

Concerto for piano, violin, cello, orchestra. C major, op.56
Renaud & Gautier Capuçon,
Martha Argerich;
European Chamber Orchestra
#ClassicalMusic #Beethoven

Very impressed with how you’re looking at it and considering how to succeed with it—am on Team You!

Suuuuuuure you are 😘😆!
(Gourmet grocery by me has frozen quail…may need to get ‘em, bake ‘em, make a little cranberry glaze, and salt ‘em with my Scrabble tears next time you’re here)

(My ancestors are covering their eyes at my shame and are muttering from the afterlife, “Must’ve switched ‘er at birth…she ain’t one of ours!”) 😁

😱

Well, only the weak need sleep…?
🤔 Excellent point!

Right?! Nothing like making the rest of us feel like underachievers…😆 Seriously, tho, it is like doing a musical ultramarathon.

Kinda looks like a Cornell box…

Thanks! I’d resisted getting a ticket for a while…finally pushed over the edge in a weak moment. Looking forward to it!

Was so psyched that the recital program was part of the tour!

🤣🤣🤣

Love the Emperor, will keep me awake for days after I’m sure. Now I’m gonna have to go off and listen to some Puts…

I was curious about those two pieces (Guo, Puts) since I’m much more conversant in music whose century starts with “17th” or “18th” vs “21st”, y’know? I don’t know that I’ve ever heard anything by Puts 🤔
So, um, this might be good for me then…

Oh, you guys are going to talk me into the concerto program, arent’cha?!

That would would be a showstopper, I’m guessing! Probably be a great caffeine replacement (I love that piece…😁)

Go for ALL the cannoli?!?!?!
Sooo tempted. Concerto program is a Bthoven sandwich, basically. 🤔

• Bthoven Consecration of the House Overture
• Jasmine Guo , sound of where i came from(SLSO Co-commission)
• Kevin Puts, Concerto for Orchestra
• Bthoven Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

Víkingur Ólafsson in Recital Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert - St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Fine. I got a ticket to the recital—but please talk me out of the concerto program on the weekend because that’s the musical equivalent of stopping in for a cannoli and leaving as part owner of an entire bakery.

Mar 26. Víkingur Ólafsson in Recital
Powell Hall #slso #stl #ClassicalMusic

😂 Timely selection, Mr J!

Twilight, those magical, evocative moments as the sun dips below the horizon, arrive an hour later now. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was fascinated with the delicate light quality at twilight and captured it in his painting "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” of 1885-86 (Tate Britain).

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