Music clip of the week
Every week or so I'll upload a clip, i.e. a movement or aria from some piece or another. Probably lots of Baroque. Certainly lots of Bach. Just some favorites of mine, just for the fun of it.
(The music files are in MP3 format. Just click on the [MP3] link following the title and your system will (hopefully) offer you the option of storing the file on your hard disk or opening it directly in a multi-media player. Please allow time for the file to load.)
This week:• The Latin group La Voz de Colombia playing A Mi Pais with our own David Rothschild on the trombone (on the left)
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Past weeks:
• Anonymus, Lavava y sospirava (canción sefardí)
A Sephardi song played by Hespčrion XXI (Jordi Saval et al.) and sung by Montserrat Figueras. [YouTube]
(Sepharad was the Jewish community in Spain, especially
in the territories controlled by the Moors in medieval
times. When the Catholics took Granada, the last Moor
kingdom in Spain, in 1492, the Jews were expelled, most of
them emigrating to Portugal, where they were later again
expelled, and to the Netherlands. [Text copied from the
information provided with the video on YouTube])
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• J.S. Bach, Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen
(soprano aria from Cantata BWV 127; a wonderful recording with a boy soprano,
possibly the Harnoncourt recording with the Regensberger Domspätzen)
[MP3]
• J.S. Bach, Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken
(tenor aria from the Johannes Passion, BWV 245),
Harnoncourt
[MP3]