What are you listening to right now?

[Joy]

Thanks for posting the words, Muriel, a lovely melody and beautiful words to match!
This was his one of the last songs he composed before dying at the young age of 38 in 1864. He left us with quite a few amazing songs. A wonderful American composer.

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'Truth and beauty joined'

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Joy:
...A wonderful American composer...

Joy,
And so often those words phrased that way are an oxymoron, but in this case they are precisely correct.

Oh, I came to Nacogdoches
with my banjo on my knee..

Right now, it is Sonata in F# for Piano - #2 Op 2 by Johannes Brahms. Marvelous.


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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[Tony John Hearne]

Originally posted by spaceray:
Beautiful Dreamer ,wake unto me;
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
lulled by the moonlight have all passed away.

Beautiful dreamer,Queen of my song,
list while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of lifes busy throng;
Beautiful dreamer awake unto me;

Beautiful dreamer awake unto me
beautiful dreamer,out on the sea.
mermaids are chanting the wild Lorelei;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Beautiful dreamer,beam on my heart
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart;
Beautiful dreamer,awake unto me;
Beautiful dreamer,awake unto me.

all together now...

many thanks That was indeed the song I recall

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Love from London

[Gurn Blanston]

Once upon a Sunday dreary
While I labored, weak and weary
The strains upon the gloomy air,
What? It's Beethoven!
Why, it's the lovely, lovely 9th Symphony,
Oh Joy!
Berlin Philharmonic, H. von Karajan 1962


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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[Amalie]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Once upon a Sunday dreary
While I labored, weak and weary
The strains upon the gloomy air,
What? It's Beethoven!
Why, it's the lovely, lovely 9th Symphony,
Oh Joy!
Berlin Philharmonic, H. von Karajan 1962

Oh Gurn, you are a smoothie!

I love that very version of the 9th, by the BPO.

You have also put me in a poetical mind:

That time of year thou mayest in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang,
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang;
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all the rest;
In me thou seest the glowing of such a fire
That on the ashes of his youth doeth lie,
As the deathbed, whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by;
This thou perceiv'st which makes the love more strong,
To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.
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Shakespeare Sonnet 73,

Surely Shakespeare does the impossible here and puts into words which in inexpressable.
And what words!
The more I read the sonnets the more I realize that it is not a question of this being an unparalleled use of language.
Shakespeare really is the English language.
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Sorry to digress again but I hope you don't mind me sharing this with everyone.
A Beautiful sonnet and beautiful words.





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[Amalie]

Dussek's Piano Concerto in G minor Op.49
Played by Andreas Staier (Broadwood Piano, 1806).

[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Amalie:
Oh Gurn, you are a smoothie!

I love that very version of the 9th, by the BPO.

Nay, madam,
I am just a Poe boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
for a pocketful of mumbles,
such are promises..

Nice Shakespeare, BTW, although the internal reducdance of that statement renders it unnecessary, I guess.



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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[Amalie]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Nay, madam,
I am just a Poe boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
for a pocketful of mumbles,
such are promises..

Nice Shakespeare, BTW, although the internal reducdance of that statement renders it unnecessary, I guess.

OMG Yes, Paul Simon,The Boxer, I remember that song, was it from the 70's?
I like all of his songs and love the lyrics to : I am a rock.

I am a rock,
I am an Island,

I have my books,
And poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armour,
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no-one and no-one touches me

I am a rock,
I am an Island,

And a rock feels no pain
And an Island never cries.

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Ah well, there I go again, reminiscing about my younger carefree days. Sorry about that.


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[spaceray]

now playing...Goldberg Variations ,Bach,
Glenn Gould,1981.Singing included.

[Pastorali]

Still have the 'Emperor' in my mind of yesterday's concert evening with Helene Grimaud. Excelent!

For now: Jaqueline du Pre, Cello Sonatas 3# and 5#.

Great women!!!

[Gurn Blanston]

Trio in Eb for Violin, Viola & Cello, Op 3 - performed by L'Archibudelli
C'est magnifique ca!


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Regards,
Gurn
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That's my opinion, I may be wrong.
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[Amalie]

Beethoven, Op.112
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.


Many a day and night my bark stood ready laden,
Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends around me,
Pledging me to patience and courage,
In the haven.

**

And they spoke thus with impatience twofold:
"Gladly pray we for thy rapid passage,
Gladly for thy happy voyage fortune,
In the distant world is waiting for thee,
In our arms thoul't find thy prize, and love too, when returning".

**

And when morning came, arose an uproar,
And the sailor's joyous shouts awake us,
All was stirring, all was living, moving,
Bent on sailing with the first kind Zephyr.

**

And the sails soon in the breeze are swelling,
And the sun with feiry love invites us,
Filled the sails are, clouds on high are floating,
On the shore each friend exulting raises,
Songs of hope, in giddy joy expecting,
Joy the voyage through, as on the morn of sailing,
And the earliest starry night to radiant.

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But by God-sent changing winds ere long he's driven,
Sideways from the course he had intended,
And he fiegns as though he would surrender,
While he gently striveth to outwit them.

**

To his goal, e'en when thus pressed still faithfull,
But from out the damp grey distance rising
Softly now the storm proclaims its advent,
Presseth down each bird upon the waters,
Presseth down the throbbing hearts of mortals,
And it cometh, as its stubborn fury,
Wisely ev'ry sail the seamen striketh,
With anguish-laden ball are sporting
Wind and water.

**

And in yonder shore are gathered sanding,
Friends and lovers, trembling for their bold one,
"Why, alas, remain'd he here not with us!
Ah, the tempest: cast away by fortune,
Must the good one perish in this fashion?
Might not he perchance...ye great immortals"

**

Yet he like a man stands by his rudder,
With the bark are sporting wind and water,
Wind and water sport not with his bosom,
On the fierce deep looks he, as a master-
In his Gods, or shipwreck'd, or safe landed,
Trusting ever.
**

Text by, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776

[Tony John Hearne]

On tiny speakers (need to be quiet here) from my Walkman. Cassette tape recorded from an LP (does anyone remember those?) The Guarneri Quartet from around 1967 playing the Maestro's "Grosse Fugue" The pulse and poewer of this music throbs from the speakers. As a jazz lover I would say that this is truly unbelievable music for its time, It also reminds me why I come to this web site every evening

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Love from London

[v russo]

Originally posted by Tony John Hearne:
On tiny speakers (need to be quiet here) from my Walkman. Cassette tape recorded from an LP (does anyone remember those?) The Guarneri Quartet from around 1967 playing the Maestro's "Grosse Fugue" The pulse and poewer of this music throbs from the speakers. As a jazz lover I would say that this is truly unbelievable music for its time, It also reminds me why I come to this web site every evening

A TRULY GREAT PIECE FOR ITS TIME, FOR TODAY AND ANYTIME. BEETHOVEN'S MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE FACE OF MUSIC.

HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD THE VERSION FOR STRING ORCHESTRA? IT TRANSLATES VERY WELL AND IS TRULY PROFOUND AND POWERFULL!



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v russo

[crisss]

Originally posted by Gurn Blanston:
Trio in Eb for Violin, Viola & Cello, Op 3 - performed by L'Archibudelli
C'est magnifique ca!

Oh, yes, I have this CD performed by Archibudelli. As you say : c'est vraiment de la belle musique )
Criss