Brother Ah / “Motherless Child.”
It’s dusty and beautiful.
(via crashinglybeautiful)
Francis Poulenc / Sonata for Flute & Piano, Op.164 - II.Cantilena: Assez lent
Wolfgang Schulz, flute · James Levine, piano
Sofia Gubaidulina / Quartet for 4 flutes (1977) - Movement 5
Susanne Barner, Hans-Udo Heinzmann, Bernd Osten, Wolfgang Ritter (flutes)
Szőnyi Erzsébet: Sirató / Lament (1967, in memoriam Kodály Zoltán)
Angelica Girls Choir, Gráf Zsuzsanna
Szalai András, dulcimer * Párkai Krisztina, flute * Kökényessy Zoltán, viola
2009, Budapest
(via the awesome zveneczi)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in C minor for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola, and cello, K.617 (1791)
From the album Music for Glass Harmonica
Inspired by the recent offering of the Glass Orchestra on Continuo’s weblog, I humby submit this movement by Mozart, perhaps the most famous composer ever to write for the weird and wondrous glass harmonica.
One of the most creative extensions of the classical instrumentarium, the glass harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin, although the principle behind it is an ancient one. Producing, in the words of a contemporary observer, “a Tone superior to every other instrument, and perhaps, the only one from which you hear the Effect without the Cause,” the glass harmonica stands as a powerful influence on all later attempts in experimental organology.
(Thank you, acousmata)
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