Music of the Day

[couch]

And indeed he was mindful of his clothes. Those of you who are New Yorkers may well know of the French American Re-Weaving Co. on 57th. They helped Lennie out with his cashmere cape. They've helped me out with a couple of less conspicuous items.

[uppercase]

Cold. Freezing here.
Yet a summer cocktail in a coupe glass …a jasmine …gin Cointreau Campari lemon … shake vigorously for 11 seconds and serve straight up.

And meditate to Erik Satie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLNmD1u ... 1ysrLPdZWv

[Frederic Leighton]

...And meditate to Erik Satie...

Thank you Uppercase! May I add this little-known short piece and sit with you in meditation?

[uppercase]

http://youtu.be/G_laBQ9YqgU
A taste of honey to my evening cocktail.

[uppercase]

http://youtu.be/vWonKYwlg0Q

Avery Parish on the piano.

[hectorm]

UC, Federico,
if you like Satie, I think you would also enjoy this piano song by Ben Johnston. More modern and played on a microtonal instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOMNOZr6JF4

[Frederic Leighton]

UC, Federico,
if you like Satie, I think you would also enjoy this piano song by Ben Johnston. More modern and played on a microtonal instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOMNOZr6JF4

Ah! fantastic! thank you, Hectorm.

2:24-2:34 seems a sudden quotation of Poulenc, actually (see here at 21:04, for instance, for a theme that Poulenc uses many times through all his works).

My familiarity with just intonation is almost limited to La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano (here a poorly representative 2min extract from the 5-6hour-long work).

[hectorm]

2:24-2:34 seems a sudden quotation of Poulenc .

Buon orecchio musicale, Federico. Actually between 1:21 and 2.15 there a few quotations from Hupfeld and other music that sounds famliar but I can´t pinpoint.

[uppercase]

http://youtu.be/XhnRIuGZ_dc

Horowitz plays Chopin's Ballade 1.

10 minutes to warm you on a cold Sunday.

[Frederic Leighton]

Michelangeli and silence.

[hectorm]

I don´t buy what I read about Pollini´s emotional restraint (and having learned it from Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCiFZvjfuU

[davidhuh]

Gentlemen,

sharing the memories of a remarkable concert earlier this week:
https://youtu.be/8A1oaVfqe20

Deux heures exquises in an old abbey close to Geneva. Mr. Jaroussky is doing incredibly well in this difficult and delicate repertory.

Cheers, David

[davidhuh]

Gentlemen,

just coming out of another beautiful concert at Wigmore Hall, with a mezzo-soprano I have never had the pleasure to hear before.

Christianne Stotijn started with Ständchen by R. Strauss
https://youtu.be/3YU7cuw9m1U

After more Strauss, she went on with Korngold's Shakespeare songs, even more Strauss, the little known Hollywood songbook by Eisler, to finish with Kurt Weill on texts by Walt Whitman. After all the emotions and sadness of war memories, she finished with

https://youtu.be/fZ87u2Bndnk

[hectorm]

Violin concertos by Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
A most interesting chap. Son of an African slave, colonel of the Republican Army during the French Revolution, master boxer and fencer, virtuoso violinist and author of some delightful music of which it is said to have inspired Mozart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9_weY ... gkl8Wg40HH

[uppercase]

Well cut trousers:


http://youtu.be/ILFjY2mbarg