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Io t'abbraccio

Io t'abbraccio from Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, opera seria by George Frideric Handel, that premiered at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket in London on 13 February 1725, at the height of his career.  
This duet is sung between Rodelinda, Queen of Lombardy and Bertarido, the usurped King; the role of a king was originally sung by alto castrato while today it is sang by countertenors.

Lucy Crowe (Rodelinda) / Bejun Mehta (Bertarido)

 

Philippe Jaroussky (Bertarido) / Nuria Rial (Rodeli...

John Ashbery - Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse

We were warned about spiders, and the occasional famine.
We drove downtown to see our neighbors. None of them were home.
We nestled in yards the municipality had created,
reminisced about other, different places—
but were they? Hadn’t we known it all before?
 
In vineyards where the bee’s hymn drowns the monotony,
we slept for peace, joining in the great run.
He came up to me.
It was all as it had been,
except for the weight of the present,
that scuttled the pact we made with heaven.
In truth there was n...

Down In The Street Below

Press the doorbell and push the door
Climb the darkened stairwell to the second floor
She'll be waiting for you in her dressing-gown
With the drink she poured you when she heard the sound
Watch the film, eat the food she cooked
Talk of how the film ain't half as good as the book
Kiss her sleepy eyes closed and say "it's time"
To slip beneath the shadows of the bedroom blinds

 

Well it's always a pleasure and never a chore
But you just don't know whether you're doing it for the right reasons
It's cold...

The National Perform 'Day I Die'

Friends of the Late Show, indie rock band The National, return with a song from their album 'Sleep Well Beast.'

Leone D'Oro

La Giuria di Venezia 74, presieduta da Annette Bening e composta da Ildikó Enyedi, Michel Franco, Rebecca Hall, Anna Mouglalis, Jasmine Trinca, David Stratton, Edgar Wright e Yonfan,  dopo aver visionato tutti i 21 film in concorso, ha deciso di assegnare i seguenti premi:

 

LEONE D’ORO per il miglior film a:

THE SHAPE OF WATER  

di Guillermo del Toro (USA)

Frank Bidart - Self-Portrait, 1969

He's still young—; thirty, but looks younger—

or does he? . . . In the eyes and cheeks, tonight,

turning in the mirror, he saw his mother,—

puffy; angry; bewildered . . . Many nights

now, when he stares there, he gets angry:—

something unfulfilled there, something dead

to what he once thought he surely could be—

Now, just the glamour of habits . . .

                                                                  Once, instead,

he thought insight would remake him, he'd reach

—what? The thril...

L’Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, accompanied by soprano Céline Scheen and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, take you on an exciting journey from German songs by Schütz and Bach to motets by Monteverdi, Cazzati and Sances during the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

 

The musical programme:
Heinrich Schütz: Es steh’ Gott auf SWV356
Tarquinio Merula: Ciaccona
Heinrich Schütz: Erbarm Dich mein, o Herre Gott SWV447 and
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen SWV 366
(from: Symphoniae Sacrae II)
J.C. Bach: Ach, da...

Scientists

Four Tet - Scientists. Taken from the album New Energy coming out 29th September 2017.

Me Voy

ibeyi - 'Me Voy (feat. Mala Rodriguez)' // Taken from the forthcoming Ibeyi album Ash, released September 29 on XL Recordings. // Directed by: MANSON // Produced by: CANADA

White On White

Kazimir Malevich - Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918)

 

Malevich described his aesthetic theory, known as Suprematism, as "the supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts." He viewed the Russian Revolution as having paved the way for a new society in which materialism would eventually lead to spiritual freedom. This austere painting counts among the most radical paintings of its day, yet it is not impersonal; the trace of the artist's hand is visible in the text...