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29. August 2026 · Write a comment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment · Tags: , ,

… and goodnight!

Albert Becker: Bleibe, Abend will es werden
Jugendkonzertchor der Chorakademie Dortmund, Felix Heitmann, Conductor

Stay, for evening is coming,
And the day has inclined;
Stay, Lord, with us on earth,
Until the final lament falls silent.

Who shall dry our tears,
If Your hand does not do it;
Who shall fulfill the heart’s desire,
If not the glow of Your love?

Ah, the earth is so false,
Ah, the heart is so wavering:
From the earth full of trouble,
Lead us heavenward!

Stay, for evening is coming,
And the day leans toward rest;
Stay, Lord, with us here on earth,
In heaven, remain with us!

For Your Listening Enjoyment

09. August 2026 · Write a comment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

I know, I know, I don’t post here at all these days. But … well … maybe someone will enjoy this. I know I did. (And it makes me so very tempted to pay for the Live From London series after all — something I said I wasn’t going to do this time. We’ll see.)

VOCES8: Gloria from ‘Missa Bell’ Amfitrit’ altera’ by Orlando de Lassus

Happy Friday

01. March 2024 · Comments Off on Happy Friday · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment, Oboe

Here’s a nice way to begin your Friday! What a fun piece … and so well played! Bravi tutti, Drs. Camwell and Yang!

From the YouTube page:
Cosmic Harmonies for Oboe and Piano by Robert W. Smith. Movement 1: Yelapa. Inspired by “Adam and Eve in Yelapa” by Fred “Nall” Hollis, housed at the International Arts Center on the campus of Troy University in Troy, Alabama.
Oboe: Dr. Jillian Camwell Piano: Dr. Hui-Ting Yang
This three-movement piece was composed for Jillian Camwell in 2022. Thanks to a generous grant from Troy University, this work was recorded by Camwell and Yang at Rabadash Studios in Mandeville, LA, with video by C.A. Video Productions. Produced and edited by Dr. Dave Camwell.
This project is in memoriam of the composer, our good friend, Robert W. Smith, who passed away in September 2023.
Visit Dr. Camwell’s website for more information about the art work which inspired this composition. jilliancamwell.com

For Your Enjoyment

25. November 2022 · Comments Off on For Your Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

This is just wonderful …

Handel: Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect Me
Lea Deandre, Thomas Dunford and the Jupiter Ensemble. (Oboist isn’t named. Sorry!)

For Your Listening Enjoyment

25. May 2022 · Comments Off on For Your Listening Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

Scott Hostetler playing the Brahms Trio … simply gorgeous.

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11. May 2018 · Comments Off on For Your Listening Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

Eriks Esenvalds: Ancient Prairie (2015)

State Choir Latvija
M?ris Sirmais, conductor
Ilze Zari?a, violin

The Ancient Prairie – Bai Juyi (772-846)

The prairie overflows with the grass’ s rolling billows,
As the year comes and goes, it withers and grows.

The wild fire can never bum it out of view,
When the vernal breeze arises, it appears anew.

Its balmy odors drifts across the path time-worn,
Its luster of green extends to the town forlorn.

Again as I see my friend along the road depart,
I feel the grass is deep in sorrow as my heart.?

A Different Arrangement

23. October 2017 · 1 comment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

D minor Marcello … for two guitars. And they are awfully good! Bravo!

Henderson-Kolk Duo

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10. July 2017 · Comments Off on For Your Listening Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

Because I think this is beautiful.

Pearsall: Lay a Garland
VOCES8

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12. February 2016 · Comments Off on For Your Listening Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

Just because I like it … and think maybe someone else out there might as well.

From the YouTube page:

LA REVERDIE
Claudia Caffagni voce, liuto
Livia Caffagni voce, flauti, viella
Elisabetta De Mircovich voce, viella, symphonia
Doron David Sherwin voce, cornetto muto, percussioni

TRENTO MUSICANTICA 2010
Castello del Buonconsiglio 30 settembre 2010

DE STELLA NOVA: IL COSMO DI SOGNO DEL MEDIOEVO

Anonimo italiano (XIII sec.) Stella nova de le genti (lauda)
Cortona, Bibl. Comunale e dell’Accademia Etrusca, Ms. 91

Anonimo francese (XIII sec.) Pange melos (conductus)
Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ms. Pluteus 29.1

Anonimo spagnolo (XIV sec.) Stella splendens (virelai)
Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monasterio, 1 (Llibre Vermell)

Anonimo inglese (XIV sec.) Solaris ardor Romuli / Gregorius sol seculi / Petre tua navicula /Marionette douche (mottetto)
Oxford, New College Library, Ms. 362, item XXVI

Anonimo francese (XIV sec.) Pantheon abluitur / Apollinis eclipsatur / Zodiacum signis (mottetto)
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 222 C. 22

Anonimo inglese Novus sol de Virgine (carola)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Arch. Selden B 26

Johannes Ciconia (1370ca. – 1412) O Padua sidus preclarum (mottetto)
Bologna, Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, Ms. Q 15

Anonimo italiano (XV sec.) Ave maris stella
Faenza, Biblioteca Comunale, Cod. 117

Johannes Ciconia Per quella strada lactea del cielo (madrigale)
Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Ms. 184 (Mancini Codex)

Doron David Sherwin Celi enarrant gloriam Domini

bis
giga irlandese tradizionale

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15. September 2015 · Comments Off on For Your Listening Enjoyment · Categories: For Your Listening Enjoyment

Just because.

From the YouTube (Warner Classics) page:
New Arpeggiata album out 23 October, 2015.

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