Luis Soares's Blog, page 56
June 17, 2020
Brandenburg Concert No. 4
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concert No. 4 / Hofkapelle Munich - Rüdiger Lotter, violin and conductor. Recorded: Sunday, March 27, 2016, during The Sunday Morning Concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
June 16, 2020
Fall Please
"Fall Please" feat. Marta taken from 'Fall To Pieces', the new album from Tricky out September 4th on False Idols.
Danzón No. 2
Arturo Márquez - Danzón No. 2
Alondra de la Parra conducts L'Orchestre de Paris in a concert that weaves musical bridges between Mexico and France at the Philharmonie de Paris, 2015.
June 15, 2020
No Time for Love Like Now
“No Time For Love Like Now” is the first song from Big Red Machine since the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut in 2018. Big Red Machine began as a collaboration between Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon in 2008, and has grown into a multi-artist collective. When the group got together this year to begin working on new music, this particular song made a detour and ended up with Michael Stipe.
Written by Michael Stipe and Aaron Dessner, produced by Aaron Dessner, with Orchestr...
Say Their Names
"Say Their Names" by Kadir Nelson for the New Yorker. Here you will find a closeup examination of the artist’s latest cover, in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America.
Louise Farrenc: Symphonie n°3
Mikko Franck dirige l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France dans la Symphonie n°3 en sol mineur op. 36 de Louise Farrenc. Concert enregistré samedi 3 février 2018 à l'Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio (Paris).
June 12, 2020
Claudia Rankine - Weather
On a scrap of paper in the archive is written
I have forgotten my umbrella. Turns out
in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher
is without. We scramble in the drought of information
held back by inside traders. Drop by drop. Face
covering? No, yes. Social distancing? Six feet
under for underlying conditions. Black.
Just us and the blues kneeling on a neck
with the full weight of a man in blue.
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds.
In extremis I can’t breathe gives way
to asphyxiation, to giving up th...
June 11, 2020
Self-Portrait in Raincoat Peering
Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929) - Self-Portrait in Raincoat Peering - signed 'Arikha' (upper left) and dated '22XII88' (upper right) - pastel on paper.
June 10, 2020
Louise Farrenc
Farrenc, Louise (1804 - 1875) - Sextet in C minor (1852)
I. Allegro
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Allegro vivace
When Louise Farrenc wrote this Sextet her career was on a firm footing. A decade previously she had become the first woman to be appointed professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire – one of the most prestigious posts in Europe. And although she had spent most of that decade being paid significantly less than her male counterparts, the triumphant premiere of her recent Nonet had give...
