I think it's more about some specific quality of melancholy that I cannot find in other era's. It's special for me.

Ethan Iverson's trio

I fell in love with Scarlatti K87. I'd heard it before (it is one of his best known sonatas), but yesterday it hit me hard for some reason.

Clara Haskil :heart: (two takes)


Igor Kipnis (clavichord :heart:)


Ross's complete recording of Scarlatti I just don't love... I don't know why.

I am also skipping Horowitz (and a few others for that matter). His is the kind of Romantic (re)interpretation that is breathtaking and hard to un-hear once you have heard it. And granted, this peace positively invites it. But I would then prefer to go all the way and do something like what Vaughan Williams did with his dreamy take on Thomas Tallis:


This was the original inspiration - a severe, militant psalm, striking in its own right, with words like "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."



You can see (as in Scarlatti) what harmonies moved Williams and why he took it to such different places (without changing a note of the original!)

Toccata and fugue, on a friggin'harp? Oh yeah, and for the first time, it makes sense!

That was super cool.

The organ version has become too cheesy to evoke -- that was a great rendition.

Swoooooooning.

Maya Beiser's take on Terry Riley's classic (cello with loop pedals and percussions)

Listening to an upright bass.

You may enjoy Rob Amster.

Swoooooooning. — AmadeusD

Good stuff. I know little of Mendelsohn's lieder.

Google translates the title as "favorite cookies" :)

Beloved Little Spot

Do you know where I like to linger
In the cool of an evening?
In the quiet valley there spins
A little mill,
And there is a little brook beside it,
With trees standing all around it.
I often sit there for hours on end,
Looking around and daydreaming.

Even the little flowers in the grass
Begin to speak,
And the little blue one says:
Look at how my little head is hanging!
The little rose with a thorny kiss
Has pricked me:
Ah, it has made me so sad
That my heart has broken.

There approaches a small white spider,
saying: Be content;
Some day you will die,
For that is the way it is here on this earth;
Better that your heart breaks
From the kiss of a rose,
Than that you never know love
And die loveless. — Friederike Robert, tr. Emily Ezust

Here's the video of that upright bass with Adam Ben Ezra. Awesome!!

You may enjoy Rob Amster. — AmadeusD

Thanks. This is what I could find that's co-written by Rob Amster. Yes, I like listening to that bass. I couldn't find just the instrumental.

Something to lighten your day.
https://youtu.be/YK_KTXb_Jrg?feature=shared

Smooth chill tune. I wish I had listened to it this morning when it was raining under the grey and foggy sky.

Thankyou, you can always rely on Philip Glass to take you out of yourself.

Holst's The Planets:Neptune is marvellous:

I'm listening to Walton's Passacaglia. I really dig the cello in general.

Cello has an indescribable tone. That short but intense piece proves it. Thanks for sharing it with us. I enjoyed listening to it while on my way to the subway.

Welcome to TPF.

I was reminded of these the other day. Neither jazz nor classical, but the dreaded folk.

So sue me, poseurs. Watch on youtube.

Very nice. I've added folk to the thread title.

Also rather interesting and Modal. The harmonies remind me of the Uilleann pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkrTyrR-WQ

Norwegian morning music while enjoying the quietude of dawn (coffee recommended)

Peer Gynt by Grieg



The whole thing is a bit longer than the morning music

23/9/2024. Cloudy and windy morning.

Burundi spaceport, Ozric Tentacles

@Jamal I found on YouTube the songs that were constantly playing at the museum. I think these are the best versions and fit with the ambient written by Casares. :smile:

The ever-astonishing Kent Nishimura

The subtleties and attention to detail are quite extraordinary.