Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Violin Concerto (1939); BBC Symphony Orchestra (David Robertson, cond.) with Gil Shaham (violin), live, London, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
two takes
Arvo Pärt, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (1977)
A Far Cry, live, Boston (Jordan Hall), 10/17/08
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, live, London (Royal Albert Hall), 8/17/10
Vodpod videos no longer available.This goes, and goes, and goes, keeping you afloat, carrying you along,
then stops with stunning suddenness—is any music more lifelike?
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