Luis Soares's Blog, page 399

Gia nella notte densa...

Plácido Domingo (Happy birthday!) and Anna Netrebko sing "Gia Nella Note Densa" from Verdi's Otello live from the Waldbuhne (2006). Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Conductor: Marco Armiliato.

18-80 in two minutes.

Director Bart Hess’s sleek depiction of ageing for Define Beauty sees the unblemished surface of two marble sculptures sag and shrivel (not unlike human skin). Demonstrating time’s unforgiving impacts on the body - in front of your very eyes - the film is a reminder that the fight against dermatological degradation is a battle that's impossible to win.

Jason Moran Plays Thelonious Monk

For the radio show and more info: http://n.pr/1hsGhW6

"Thelonious Monk is the most important musician. Period!" That's pianist Jason Moran on "the first pianist who made me want to be a pianist." So Moran decided to present a personal reflection on Monk's music, reconfiguring the 1959 large ensemble concert that Monk presented at Town Hall in New York City. Ever the interdisciplinary thinker, Moran also gathered photographs and archival audio recordings to present a visual companion piece to...

I Exhale.

I Exhale is the first single taken from Underworld’s new album ‘Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future’ out 18th March 2016.

Kill V. Maim

Grimes. From the new album ‘Art Angels’ out now.

In Stiller Nacht.

Idan Raichel - In stiller Nacht, Andreas Scholl & soloists of Morphing Chamber Orchestra
NOSPR Gorczycki Festival 22.11.2014 - Poland

I Can't Handle The Summer

"I Can't Handle The Summer"
Minta & The Brook Trout
SLOW

released February 26th 2016 * editado a 26 de Fevereiro de 2016 * Norte Sul/Valentim de Carvalho

video by Minta & The Brook Trout
from two public domain films in the Prelinger Archives, San Francisco: "Good Health Practices" vols. 1 and 2.

Comecei a ler o "H is for Hawk"...

...da Helen McDonald, que já está felizmente traduzido em português como "A de Açor". Ganhou o Samuel Johnson Prize que distinguenão-ficção e o Costa Book of the Year, ambos em 2014. Mistura biografia, memória e natureza. É tão boa a mistura que à página 50 já estou obcecado por falcões, açores e etc.. Ainda por cima depois de ter lido o ano passado o igualmente brilhante (embora muito, muito diferente) "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" de Max Porter. Outra vez a dor da perda e pássaros.

Aba...

Debaixo de Água.

Akademie für alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit,violino, direção

G.F. Händel 1685-1759

Water Music, HWV 348-350
- Overture: Largo-Allegro
- Adagio e staccato
- Allegro / Andante / Allegro da capo
- Allegro
- Air
- Minuet
- Bourrée
- Hornpipe
- Allegro moderato
- Allegro
- Alla hornpipe
- Minuet
- Rigaudon 1 / Rigaudon 2 / Rigaudon 1 - Lentement
- Bourrée
- Minuet 1 / Minuet 2
- Gigue 1 / Gigue 2 da capo
- Minuet

A arte do trailer.

No fao evidentemente a mnima ideia se o filme atingir sequer os mnimos olmpicos de qualidade mas o trailer um exemplo de como a arte de abrir o apetite para filmes tem evoludo. Passa de "somos uma famlia feliz" para "vivemos em parania claustrofbica" para "o que que se passa l fora?" Apetite aberto.