Luis Soares's Blog, page 94

Water Me Down

Vagabon's "Water Me Down," from her self-titled album, due October 18 on Nonesuch Records; vinyl follows in late fall.

On Friendship

Lately, remembering anything involves an ability
to forget something else. Watching the news,
I writhe and moan; my mind is not itself.
Lying next to a begonia from which black ants come and go,
I drink a vodka. Night falls. This seems a balm
for wounds that are not visible in the gaudy daylight.
Sometimes a friend cooks dinner; our lives commingle.
In loneliness, I fear me, but in society I’m like a soldier
kneeling on soft mats. Everything seems possible,
as when I hear birds that awaken at 4 a.m. o...

Mais logo, na Gulbenkian

Após uma longa ausência dos palcos portugueses, e numa altura em que deixou de fazer digressões e se retirou do frenesim exigido pelo circuito das maiores salas mundiais, Maria João Pires abre uma exceção e regressa à Gulbenkian Música na companhia da soprano arménia Talar Dekrmanjian. É o primeiro de três recitais que Maria João Pires protagonizará ao longo da temporada e que nos devolve ao contacto com o brilhantismo interpretativo da celebrada pianista portuguesa.

Conta-me Histórias

Versão dos Clã para a música "Conta-me Histórias" dos Xutos e Pontapés, editada em 1999 no àlbum 'XXANOS, XXBANDAS'.

In A Darkened Room

Howard Hodgkin - In A Darkened Room (2000-2001)

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.

Taking a Page

Devendra Banhart's "Taking a Page," from his new album, Ma, out now on Nonesuch Records: https://smarturl.it/DevendraBanhartMa

Filmed by The Bardos in Nepal

Jamie Barton

Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson and Delilah "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" (Delilah)

Jamie Barton with the New York Choral Society and Members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch. Recorded at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall (New York, USA), on October 30, 2016.

 

Rule, Britannia! (excerpt) with Jamie Barton and rainbow flag (BBC Proms 2019)

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Once ascribed to Jacques Louis David, this engaging image of a young woman artist in a white dress is attributed to Marie Denise Villers. Although she is little known today, Villers was a gifted pupil of Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824), and, if the present portrait is by her, it was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1801.

Mark Strand - Sleeping with One Eye Open

Unmoved by what the wind does,
The windows
Are not rattled, nor do the various
Areas Of the house make their usual racket–
Creak at
The joints, trusses, and studs.
Instead,
They are still. And the maples,
Able
At times to raise havoc,
Evoke Not a sound from their branches
Clutches.
It’s my night to be rattled,
Saddled
With spooks. Even the half-moon
(Half-man,
Half half dark), on the horizon,
Lies on
Its side casting a fishy light
Which alights
On my Floor, lavishly lording
Its morbid
Look ov...

The Lark Ascending

Hilary Hahn performs 'The Lark Ascending' by Ralph Vaughan Williams at the George Enescu Festival.

The Lark Ascending was composed as a response to George Meredith's poem of the same name and the composer copied its lines describing the bird's "silver chain of sound" on the fly-leaf of his score.