Just another old record

[Padraig]

Play it again.

Daniel Barenboim & West-Eastern Divan Live in Geneva: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Verdi | Full Concert - YouTube

[french frank]

Play it again.

Daniel Barenboim & West-Eastern Divan Live in Geneva: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Verdi | Full Concert - YouTube

And still playing after all these years. The music goes on.

[Serial_Apologist]

And still playing after all these years. The music goes on.

One light amid darkness.

[Padraig]

And still playing after all these years. The music goes on.

Thanks f f. I got a look at that update, without joining Fb

[Padraig]

More to play

Voktett Hannover & VOCES8: Agnus Dei (Samuel Barber) - YouTube

[Padraig]

Variation on a theme.

'We can't stop' - the Israeli woman still helping sick Palestinians - BBC News

[Padraig]

What do I want?

Bach's Mass in B minor – Dona nobis pacem (Bach Collegium Japan) - YouTube

[Padraig]

What do I want?

Imagine a college chapel in the early fifties with a congregation of boys 12 - 17 - there's young Heaney over there - struggling their way through some dreaded Gregorian Chant. The Latin words are easy though the tune grates at times, but the Amen is gratefully achieved and perfectly executed. It's The Gloria from Mass of the Angels, a then unappreciated prayer for peace at Christmas. Let us sing it once more and mean it this time.

missa VIII de angelis Gloria - YouTube

[french frank]

Imagine a college chapel in the early fifties with a congregation of boys 12 - 17 - there's young Heaney over there - struggling their way through some dreaded Gregorian Chant. The Latin words are easy though the tune grates at times, but the Amen is gratefully achieved and perfectly executed. It's The Gloria from Mass of the Angels, a then unappreciated prayer for peace at Christmas. Let us sing it once more and mean it this time.

missa VIII de angelis Gloria - YouTube

We had an EP of this sung by the monks of Benediktbeuern (where the Carmina burana manuscript was found). One of my favourite 'songs' back then! Yes, I've just found it: Archive Production of DG's History of Music Division, EPA 37112

Recorded 12.4.56

[smittims]

A few years ago DG Archiv issued some CD sets commemorating an anniversary of the label, one of which was a 3-disc set of Gregorian chant with original LP sleeves in miniature. There are times when listening to it makes everything else seem irrelevant.

[Padraig]

My last idea is for a carol to mourn in some way the inordinate fate of mothers and babies in the Middle East conflict, by focussing on There is a Rose.

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - YouTube