Music of the Day

[hectorm]

Two takes on the same spellbinding song.
My favorite version by Johnny Cash, and the original by Nine Inch Nails with David Bowie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCMLwbdS ... re=related

[Pierre Spies]

Best dance routine ever? I think so.

[Taller]

Try to get this tune out of your head. Featuring Bobby Womack. And better than on the record....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Vp--wsNXE

[davidhuh]

Gentlemen,

remembering Kathleen Ferrier who left this planet 59 years ago
http://youtu.be/jh_1CKyZVSc

[Costi]

We often post masterful performances or great singers that possess impressive technique and display outstanding mastery.
Sometimes all that is needed is to let the music be.
So here it is...
Close your eyes. If you want to put a face to what you hear, you may watch the video during the Agnus (which is a bonus) afterwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmolrId_4
Who needs vibrato, inflections and "interpretation"? So many great voices have "sung" this. But this voice sounds just like another pipe in the organ... Wonderful simplicity, isn't it?

[Costi]

...and how it is born

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMY6H33MuKY

[Costi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4whSBaeCiE

[DonB]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8brwUWOew

Bach Goldberg Variations (BWV 988 for string ensemble)
Transcription for Strings by Dmitry Sitkovetsky
NES Chamber Orchestra

[Costi]

Ha!, I'm listening to that live tomorrow with a string trio

[NJS]

It is cloudy and humid here at the moment and the sun is abed; slightly depressing - so - it has to be something like this at dusk:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0P1AMy9 ... re=related

The nearly forgotten Edmundo Ros.

[Costi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rJy5a8m ... =endscreen

magic...

[hectorm]

magic...

Magical indeed....but, help, I couldn´t find the second and third movements of this piece. Maybe I´m a lousy Youtube surfer.

[NJS]

Talking of dance routines: this one is often forgotten, when their rumba is better remembered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wg47cf11yc

[Costi]

magic...

Magical indeed....but, help, I couldn´t find the second and third movements of this piece. Maybe I´m a lousy Youtube surfer.

The rest of the piece is not on youtube. I found the CD on sale here:

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7239847

Or this, in mp3 format:

http://www.amazon.com/Tri-Peathraichean ... B000QLVX7M

[Costi]

les uns...

Talking of dance routines: this one is often forgotten, when their rumba is better remembered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wg47cf11yc

les autres:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTwvo8gx68