Song of the Day (or welcome to the ADD Generation).....

[Confused]

 

[accwai]

Alamiro Giampieri: Il Carnevale di Venezia
Choung Jun Hwa, Choi Young Min

 

 

[Cornan]

 

[Confused]

 

[sphinxsix]

On the occasion of F1 Grand Prix of the Netherlands with a dedication to @accwai & @Confused

 

 

[Lightstream]

For me one of the saddest and most beautiful songs of all time:

RICHARD STRAUSS  Im Abendrot Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Gundula Janowitz

 

A breathtakingly beautiful poem by Joseph von Eichendorff written between 1804 and 1857 sung by Gundula Janowitz. Richard Strauss wrote the music 1948 afaik under the impression of the destroyed city of Munich. I hope that the translation comes at least a little bit close to the original.

 

At Dusk

We have, of need and joy,
wandered hand in hand;
From wandering rest we now
amidst the silent land.
 
The valleys fold around themselves
before the deepening gloom
Alone two larks still soar
Rapt in the twilight perfume.
 
Stand here and let them whirl,
soon enough comes their rest
Would that we not lose ourselves
within this loneliness.
 
O utter silent peace!
Suffused with this sun's last breath
Of wandering grow we so weary -
Is this our sense of death?

 

The beginning is much, much too fast by Karajan. Kurt Masur clearly did it better. But it is all the more sustained and beautiful when the singing begins.

 

 

[christopher3393]

1st RECORDING OF: "Turn Your Radio On" - Lulu Belle & Scotty (1939)

 

 

[Iving]

The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash (2002)

 

 

[Cornan]

 

[Cornan]

 

[Confused]

 

[Cornan]

 

[Cornan]

 

[accwai]

Agustín Barrios: Mazurka Appassionata
Giulia Ballaré

 

 

[clipper]

 

[accwai]

Angelo Gilardino: Canzone notturna
Angelo Colone

 

 

[TubeLover]

Very good live recreation of a great Dylan song:

 

Storyhill - "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" - Bing video

 

JC

[Cornan]

 

[orresearch]

 

[sphinxsix]

Been recently listening mostly to women covering Metallica 

 

 

[Cornan]

 

[fas42]

 

First one in with the singer's name? 😉

[accwai]

Bach: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, BWV 232/21

Dunedin Consort, John Butt, et al.

 

 

[Cornan]

 

[Cornan]