Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
From Heiligenkreuz Abbey via the blog of Fr Edmund Waldstein. Latin text: Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque,…
Górecki is of course most famous for his third symphony of “Sorrowful Songs”, I recently discovered this which is just as powerful:
I have recently discovered the work of the Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos. Here is “Aeternam” from the album “Vivancos: Requiem”. The sleeve notes describe this (a prelude to the Requiem proper)…
Recited passages used to be common in popular music. For instance, Elvis’ musings in the bridge of Are You Lonesome Tonight?: I wonder if you’re lonesome tonight You know someone…
Not that St Francis (of Assisi), but t St Francis of Paola patron of the Calabria region, boatmen, mariners, naval officers. This is one of Liszt’s “Deux Légendes”, the first…
[ youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8rdK0XpJoA&w=560&h=315%5D According to Misha Donat’s notes for the Saloman Quarter release of this quartet: The most famous among Haydn’s six quartets of 1793 is the last, in G…
Séamus Sweeney 