Most beautiful music
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:37 am
J.S. Bach's "Erbarme dich" (from St. Matthew Passion), with Kathleen Ferrier and Herbert von Karajan's orchestra:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_1CKyZVSc
(Don't know who's playing the violin there.)
Wish the recording was cleaner of course, but my god, what a voice, and what incredible piece of genius music this is...
It absolutely takes me apart, every time I hear it. Tears and all, and the older I get, the worse it is... sobbing like a freakin' baby right now.
I first heard this piece back in Russia, it was the sound for the opening scene for the movie "Sacrifice", and then at (a broadcast of) the charity concert for the victims of the Earthquake in Armenia in 1988 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4tjP0U-Mo)
This was also one of the few things I put on the mp3 player that I got for my daughter's 9-th birthday (alongside Beatles, Mozart and some other stuff) and she told me that one was her favorite, she just kept listening to it... Her own words were "I'm enchanted". She asked for more stuff like that, to which I had to reply that there isn't a lot of "stuff like that" in the world... (Although of course I did get some other vocal pieces for her.)
Anyway, just thought I'd "pay the dues", in this small way, to this particular musical piece -- maybe more people will discover and appreciate its genius.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_1CKyZVSc
(Don't know who's playing the violin there.)
Wish the recording was cleaner of course, but my god, what a voice, and what incredible piece of genius music this is...
It absolutely takes me apart, every time I hear it. Tears and all, and the older I get, the worse it is... sobbing like a freakin' baby right now.
I first heard this piece back in Russia, it was the sound for the opening scene for the movie "Sacrifice", and then at (a broadcast of) the charity concert for the victims of the Earthquake in Armenia in 1988 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4tjP0U-Mo)
This was also one of the few things I put on the mp3 player that I got for my daughter's 9-th birthday (alongside Beatles, Mozart and some other stuff) and she told me that one was her favorite, she just kept listening to it... Her own words were "I'm enchanted". She asked for more stuff like that, to which I had to reply that there isn't a lot of "stuff like that" in the world... (Although of course I did get some other vocal pieces for her.)
Anyway, just thought I'd "pay the dues", in this small way, to this particular musical piece -- maybe more people will discover and appreciate its genius.