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What Are You Listening To Right Now?


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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

 

Lullaby by Loretta McKennitt from Elemental

 

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue

to drown the throat of war! – When the senses

are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,

who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed

fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?

when the whirlwind of fury comes from the

throne of God, when the frowns of his countenance

drive the nations together, who can stand?

when Sin claps his broad wings over the battle,

and sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;

when souls are torn to everlasting fire.

and fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain,

O who can stand? O who hath caused this?

O who can answer at the throne of God?

The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!

Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!

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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

 

Just picked up from iTunes: a complete set of Robert Schumann's symphonies conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Schumann was one of the great composers of the Romantic period (flourishing in the first half of the 19th century), and was notable for many things: being the central figure in one of musical history's great love stories, being the most influential music critic of his generation, writing a violin concerto so complex that at the time is was believed nobody would ever be able to play the solo part (the work was never performed until half a century after his death), and finally ending his days in an asylum from "melancholy" (what modern psychiatrists refer to as major depression).

 

I think Schumann's Fourth Symphony is going to get a lot of time on my playlist.

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