Århus Pigekor (Århus Girls Choir) conducted by Helle Høyer Mogensen singing Waldemar Åhlén's Sommarpsalmen (Sommersalme in Danish) in Cordoba, Argentina. This performance is from their 2008 tour and was given in Córdoba Cathedral, Argentina.I've put Åhlén's lyrics and an English translation below the video. Enjoy :-).
markfromireland
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Den motet "Jesu meine Freude", BWV 227, var skrevet til mindegudstjenesten for Johanna Meria Kees i 1723. Det er en af de smukkeste af Bachs motetter. Det er også den mest strukturelt komplekse ("dipositio")af Bachs motetter. Bach valgte to forskellige tekster:
Den første tekst handler om at opgive det verdslige liv, og Bach bruger det som en kommentar til den anden tekst, som tilskynder mennesket til at leve et åndeligt liv og ikke et materialistisk én. Bach sammenvæver de to tekster ved skiftevis vers fra den ene til den anden.
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"And the fun of it will get you.
And the joy of it will fetch you.
Its a pleasure that is bound to satisfy.
When you decide that John Sebastian
must have been a very personable guy."
Glenn Gould
You want to write a what? A fugue eh? It's been done before. Just ask Glenn :-)
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Libera's Ben Crawley singing "Where'er you walk" from Handel's "Semele". The aria is from the second act of the opera. Jupiter the king of the Gods is Semele's lover. Semele is discontented at her status as a mortal, disturbed by Semele's aspirations to immortality Jupiter decides to distract her, "I must with speed amuse her". Jupiter's aria is followed by a chorus of Zephyrs and loves singing in praise of Cupid "Now Love, that everlasting boy". (Mark Ainsley's performance of "I must with speed amuse her and "Now Love, that everlasting boy" is the second video in the playlist below). The distraction that Jupiter comes up with is to despatch his winged Zephyrs to fetch Semele's sister (Ino) from Thebes and miraculously transform the place into Arcadia the delights of which he lauds in "Where'er you walk". Lyrics to "Where'er you walk" below the video. Enjoy :-)
markfromireland
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Libera have had a five track freeby giveaway on Bandcamp for a while. I’ve kept on meaning to write about it. When you go to Bandcamp site and find the Libera 5-track Sampler page. You get presented with the chance to listen to the tracks online, to blog about it or share the link on [...]
