your turn, my turn!

the ultimate video that much current cultural industry output //might// be modelled on …

love the go-betweens

III Tiefpunkt …

Schubert’s Winterreise is, as one commentator once observed, a beautiful portrayal ‘des existenziellen Schmerzes’ (of existential pain).
Often at a point where tristesse and alienation reign in my cupboard of socially mediated emotions, it is difficult for me not to relate to so striking a rendering of said emotions by the poems that Schubert set to music in this Liederzyklus.
If you have time, listen to the whole Winterreise. It is worth it.

‘Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh’ ich wieder aus.’

II stabat mater

I’m not sure if words are required or even appropriate to describe this composition by Vivaldi. So I’ll just explain why I like it so much (the link here only covers movements i-vi/v so check youtube for part II).
Melancholy often encompasses me so I revert to “sacred” music. Vivaldi’s (along with Mozart’s) oeuvres sacrées are favourites of mine because they are simultaneously breathtakingly depressing and playful. Sigh…