Luis Soares's Blog, page 172

Ruído Vário

A convite da Casa Fernando Pessoa, Ana Deus e Luca Argel concebem em 2017 o espectáculo Ruído Vário. Desta parceria surgem as 15 canções aqui publicadas, escritas quase todas sobre poemas do Fernando Pessoa ortónimo. As vozes de Ana e Luca transformam e actualizam o génio de Pessoa, passando por diversas das suas facetas, da solenidade trágica ao escárnio humorístico, sempre acompanhadas pela guitarra de Luca e por ruídos outros que ampliam a atmosfera dos poemas. Ao disco associa-se agora o...

Silver Lake Drive

Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography and film she creates elaborate scenes that reference a wide range of influences, including Hollywood and experimental cinema, popular culture and street photography. These delicately staged compositions produce a distinct aesthetic of still and moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling and unerringly memorable.

Silver Lake Drive is the first career retrospective o...

Greg Kosmicki - Lester Pyrtle Gets Snared By Sin and Caught in the Act By God in Old Man Mooney’s Barn, Summer, 1956

for Bill Kloefkom

 

In the July hot smelly horse manure dust
out behind old man Mooney’s barn
that sits just at the outskirts of the town
Lester comes upon the treasure for which
he kept his eyes close to the ground
and searched for half the summer:
a yellowed tag of a corner of a page
of  Police Gazette ! And there, on the cover
in blushing faded pink,
caught in the hand of some sort of
nasty villain Lester hates who holds
a blood-dripping knife high in the air, is the semi-
almost naked nearly bare-ass...

Addio, mio caro bene

G.F. Händel (1685 - 1759)
Duetto Arcane & Clizia: "Addio, mio caro bene" from opera "Teseo" HWV 9

 

Mezzo-soprano - Natalia Kwałek
Countertenor - Jakub Józef Orliński
Conductor / 1st violin - Stefan Plewniak
Ensemble - Il Giardino d'Amore

 

Addio, mio caro bene
Addio, dolce mia vita
Io parto
Or vanne
Addio
Parto ma parto in pene che teco resta ognor questo mio cor.
Breve sia la partita poi farò pago allor il tuo desio.
Addio, etc.

Bernstein's Serenade for Violin and Orchestra

New England Conservatory celebrates composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein on the centennial of his birth. Here we have Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) as performed by the NEC Philharmonia and violinist In Mo Yang ’17 AD and conducted by Hugh Wolff.

 

Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"

 

Phaedrus; Pausanias
Aristophanes
Eryximachus
Agathon
Socrates; Alcibiades

 

Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Hugh Wolff
Ensemble: NEC Philharmonia
Artists: In Mo Ya...

Two Desert Poems by Stephen Crane

I walked in a desert

 

I walked in a desert. 
And I cried, 
"Ah, God, take me from this place!" 
A voice said, "It is no desert." 
I cried, "Well, But -- 
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon." 
A voice said, "It is no desert." 

 

In the desert

 

In the desert 

I saw a creature, naked, bestial, 

Who, squatting upon the ground, 

Held his heart in his hands, 

And ate of it. 

I said, “Is it good, friend?” 

“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; 

 

“But I like it 

“Because it is bitter, 

“And because it...

Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto

Carl Nielsen: Klarinettenkonzert | Live-Konzert, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Juli 2015

 

Sebastian Manz
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Dirigent: Herbert Blomstedt

BWV 1004

Live recording from Saint John's Smith Square, London (1978)
Itzhak Perlman - violin

 

Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004

1:03 Allemande
4:34 Courante
6:36 Sarabande
11:00 Gigue
13:50 Chaconne

 

Click here for the whole film "I know I played every note": https://youtu.be/haxPfFi58ww

Christopher Nupen about the performance: 

"A memorable performance of the Bach partita, shot live at a public concert in London which helped us to learn that there is almost always a depth to live p...

Swimming With Men

Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an...

Der Zauberlehrling

György Ligeti: Études for Piano - Book / Étude 10 : "Der Zauberlehrling" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) // Yuja Wang, piano