The Magic Lantern

Rahsaan Roland Kirk / “Salvation & Reminiscing” (from Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle, 1973)

Mel Bonis / Piano Quartet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 69 (1905) - I. Moderato

Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937) is a completely new voice on the scene. She was a French woman composer whose real name was Mélanie Domange née Bonis, but when composing, she used the pseudonym Mel Bonis in an attempt to gain more recognition.

During her lifetime, she received great praise from her renowned male colleagues such as Gounod and Saint-Saëns but long before her death, she was totally forgotten.

Gordan Nikolitch, violin
Jean-Philippe Vasseur, viola
Jean-Marie Trotereau, cello
Laurent Martin, piano

Sam Cooke / ‘That’s Heaven To Me’

Felix Mendelssohn / Piano Trio No.1 in D Minor Op.49 - II. Andante con Moto Tranquillo - Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax / Mendelssohn Piano Trios (2010)

(via yama-bato & xell)

Alfred Schnittke / Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief

performed by Kronos Quartet

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Apsheron Quintet; II. Reverse Time

 Kronos Quartet; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, piano

Here is the first part of this quintet, Tactile Time.

(via itnumberpi, rendan, & musicophilia)

Sofia Gubaidulina / Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Violoncello (1957) - III. Larghetto sensibile

performed by Rieko Aizawa, piano; Kai Vogler and Mira Wang, violins;
Ulrich Eichenauer, viola; Peter Bruns, cello

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Apsheron Quintet; I. Tactile Time

performed by Kronos Quartet; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, piano

In the first part (“Tactile Time”) of the Apsheron Quartet (2001), a violin imitates one of Azerbaijan’s indigenous stringed instruments. The swooping and soaring melody, very Eastern in its melismatic cut, is punctuated and embellished by the other three string instruments and by the piano. — Raymond Tuttle (via)

I encourage everyone to take a thorough listen.

(via musicophilia) 

Björk / Jóga 

(via fuckthereallife, pseudonymph, bendsinyourbrain, jo-bear, & jobagel)

Listening to the gorgeous strings on Homogenic makes me wonder why she ever stopped working with Eumir Deodato.

Sir John Betjeman reads his poem ‘The Flight From Bootle’ with music conducted & composed by Jim Parker (from the LP Betjeman’s Banana Blush, 1974)

Lonely in the Regent Palace,
Sipping her ‘Banana Blush’,
Lilian lost sight of Alice
In the honey-coloured rush.

Settled down at last from Bootle,
Alice whispered, ‘Just a min,
While I pop upstairs and rootle
For another safety pin.’

Mohammed Abdel Wahab / Theme & Variations, performed by Simon Shaheen

(Thank you, musicophilia & awayalonealastalongtheriverrun)

Kronos Quartet - Adagio (Samuel Barber)

(via yama-bato:lushlight:t-s-k-b:cargohoo)

Alfred Schnittke / Concerto Grosso No. 3, for 2 violins, harpsichord, celesta, piano & 14 strings: 5th movement.

Radiohead / ‘Dollars & Cents’

Why don’t you quiet down?

(via anadiplosis:annagoesrawr)

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