Monday, January 28, 2008

New music in my Project Playlist!

So I love the new Project Playlist application (music player above)!

I've added some new tracks above.
1. La donna e mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto - sung by Andrea Bocelli
2. Brahms: German Requiem - "Denn alles Fleish es ist wie Gras" ("All Flesh is as the Grass")

The German Requiem is the first protestant "requiem." Musically, it is a journey through various keys, which is just one of the many amazing facets of this work by Brahms. It is unknown whether or not Brahms was a Christian, but it was reported by one music historian that "Brahms kept a Bible by his bed always and it was found well-used." The clip I put up is 14.5 minutes in length, but it is well worth it...listen for the development of the piece both harmonically (key structure, melodies) and in intensity--the piece just seems to grow more and more mysterious and haunting. A very worthy setting of the biblical text "all flesh will wither as the grass." The whole idea of "from dust we are and to dust we will return" is what is depicted here.

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