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Listening to Debussy's Suite Bergamasque (Nikolai Lugansky)
Thanks to @moktan for your earlier post which led me to look up this album.
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Thanks to @moktan for your earlier post which led me to look up this album.
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The Verlaine poem that inspired it. This translation is by Richard Stokes.Listening to Debussy's Suite Bergamasque (Nikolai Lugansky)
Thanks to @moktan for your earlier post which led me to look up this album.
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Clair de lune
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.
Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
Moonlight
Your soul is a chosen landscapebewitched by masquers and bergamaskers,
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises.
Singing as they go in a minor key
of conquering love and life’s favours,
they do not seem to believe in their fortune
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,
The calm light of the moon, sad and fair,
that sets the birds dreaming in the trees
and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
bergamaskers - folk dancers
Thanks Moktan,
I was reading the booklet that accompanied the album last night.
The writeup referred to this poem by Verlaine! Nice to be able to see it.
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"and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues"
How beautiful portrayed in Ocean's Eleven!
That’s a powerful convergence of poetry and music and cinema isn’t it ? And of course all that would have been lost, like that proverbial tree falling in the forest , had you not had the faculty to notice and appreciate it.
And sharing all that took it to another level.
From now on , we will never see a fountain spouting again without remembering Ocean’s Eleven , Verlaine , Debussy and of course our interactions here.
That was both insightful and poetic @moktan. Look forward to more.
This thread is obviously not the right one for my post. It's not classical, not jazz, not rock, but we were talking about poetry and music and cinema and atmosphere. And George Clooney. So I couldn't resist posting about The Descendants.
Ka Makani ka ili Aloha performed brilliantly by the Hawaiian slack key guitarist Gabby Pahinui Those who have seen the movie will relate to the poetry:
Dedicated to the mother of Tandy Mackenzie, the Hawaiian-Scot tenor, this mele tells the story of a woman who deserts her husband. Heartbroken, he consults a kahuna who advises him to cast a love potion into the waters of a Maui beach, a place they often frequented. The wife returns.
Ka Makani ka ili Aloha performed brilliantly by the Hawaiian slack key guitarist Gabby Pahinui Those who have seen the movie will relate to the poetry:
I love the Famous wind of this land Mine to cherish The wind named Love-snatcher Chorus: My flower, my lei, mine to cherish My lei that I adore above all others You are my favorite and precious to me A lei forever for my body Beloved is this home This home so delightful to visitors Where I stayed many years With my love that was once snatched by the wind |
Dedicated to the mother of Tandy Mackenzie, the Hawaiian-Scot tenor, this mele tells the story of a woman who deserts her husband. Heartbroken, he consults a kahuna who advises him to cast a love potion into the waters of a Maui beach, a place they often frequented. The wife returns.
Difficult for anyone to surpass Glenn Gould IMHO. Haven't heard the 1955 version though.
Great watch for an insomnia night
You will love this...
Listening to this via the Primephonic recommendation
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Here is another Jewel...Listening to this via the Primephonic recommendation
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Not entirely sure this belongs here, but think some readers of this thread might be interested in attending.
Great watch for an insomnia night
Hi Two artists who have done incredible work in this repertoire are Rosalyn Tureck and Angela Hewitt…I think Gould was and still sounds incredibly great…but somehow the sound seems a little metallic for me. I have never warmed to anything else by Gould …he is great in Bach but somehow I don’t feel connected to the composer. Almost as if it is Mr Gould who is both composer and performer. Having said that , of the two Gould recordings being discussed, the 1955 one is more spontaneous IMHO. We were lucky to have got them in India on CD. Any thought on performances of the well tempered klavier, especially book1.
The Berlin Philharmonic has gone digital.
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Yes indeed…but this is not new. I have been a subscriber for over two years now. And I can attest to its excellence especially of its archival content. The BPO, like the other top European and US orchestras can now make available to its subscribers repertoire and concerts which were not viable for record companies for commercial release. The BPO, in particular, have the best app and arguably some of the best content. Though of course, the great US orchestras are also getting into the game. Thank you for flagging this…my subscription has come up for renewal!The Berlin Philharmonic has gone digital.
Digital Concert Hall
The Digital Concert Hall is the online concert hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Here you can see the orchestra’s concerts live or as recordings in the archive.
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IP
You should check out Kikujiro and some of the music Joe Hisaishi has composed for Studio Ghibli anime movies.
My wife learnt about him in 2001 and ever since we've been fans of his compositions.
Cheers,
Raghu
My Pastoral - Karl Boehm Vienna Philharmonic - DG. Along with that the Eroica too.
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