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NASA | Evolution of the Moon #space #moon #evolution

Published on Mar 14, 2012 by NASAexplorer
From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video!

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Maybe the most beautiful music ever #youtube #music #video #nowplaying #mahler

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Gustav Mahler: The last 10 minutes from the Finale of his 10th Symphony.

That symphony is unfinished, only a torso. Written in 1910/ 1911. The Mahler-experts Deryck Cook and Berthold Goldschmidt created this performing version of that torso, you're listening here. Performed by the Berliner Sinfonieorchester, the conductor is Kurt Sanderling.

For me the whole symphony, especially the Finale, is the most beautiful music ever known. That last 10 minutes start after a shocking dissonant climax of bitterness, when the strings and horns turn the hard emotions down again.

Frederick Delius: Summer Night on the River #music #quiet

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Charpentier - Depuis Le Jour from Louise

   

Three versions of the aria "Depuis Le Jour" from Gustave Charpentier's opera "Louise".

Maria Callas is Maria Callas, full of emotion but with a tendency to over "wobble" on the high notes.

Kiri Te Kanawa is very precise and has a wonderful voice but for me the Leontyne Price version taken from the Derek Jarman contribution to the 1987  film "Aria" is exquisite and by far my preferred version.

Listening to Ray LaMontagne - Felt (out Oct 10th) #music #musicmonday #nowplaying

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Quiet & relaxing music.

Nils Frahm, born in 1982, had an early introduction to music. During his childhood he was taught to play piano by Nahum Brodski – a student of the last scholar of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of the classical pianists before him as well as contemporary composers. Today Nils Frahm works as a composer and producer in Berlin. In early 2008 he founded Durton Studio, where he has worked with likeminded musicians.
Read more… http://www.last.fm/music/Nils+Frahm

Watching Martha Argerich playing Chopin's - Polonaise in A flat, Op 53 "Heroique" in a 1965 performance. #classicalmusic #video

Wrzuta.pl - Martha Argerich - Chopin - Polonaise As-Dur Op 53 "Heroique"

Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless she is widely recognized as one of the greatest modern-day pianists

In a 2001 article about Martha Argerich for The New Yorker, critic Alex Ross wrote: "Argerich brings to bear qualities that are seldom contained in one person: she is a pianist of brain-teasing technical agility; she is a charismatic woman with an enigmatic reputation; she is an unaffected interpreter whose native language is music. This last may be the quality that sets her apart. A lot of pianists play huge double octaves; a lot of pianists photograph well. But few have the unerring naturalness of phrasing that allows them to embody the music rather than interpret it."

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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Hubble's first 20 years #hubble #space #technology #slideshow

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The world's most famous space telescope has been peering into some of the deepest recesses of the universe for two decades - and is now celebrating its 20th birthday.

Take a look at some of the sights it has seen in that time with Professor Alec Boksenberg from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge - who was on the European team that helped build Hubble.

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Listening to Touching Feeling Knowing by Ramsey Lewis #music #mp3 #jazz

Concord Jazz will release Songs From the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey, the debut Concord Jazz CD from iconic pianist/bandleader Ramsey Lewis. At the age of 74, Ramsey Lewis has not only continued to be active in the jazz world, but he's also forging ahead with a newly inspired creative instinct as a composer. This re-envisioned artistic sensibility is showcased on his new album, which is a remarkable, refined collection of 12 new originals that he composed over a period of two years. The collection includes music from two commissioned world premiere performances at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, just north of Chicago. Eight songs come from the score of 2007's ballet To Know Her...written for the Joffrey Ballet Company and four pieces come from 2008's Muses and Amusements suite performed with the Turtle Island Quartet.

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Listen to Touching Feeling Knowing by Ramsey Lewis

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"Song for Athene" by Sir John Tavener #music #classicalmusic

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“Song for Athene”, (by Sir John Tavener) which has a performance time of about four minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia (“let us praise the LORD”) sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). The music reaches a climax after the sixth intonation of alleluia with the lines “Weeping at the grave creates the song: Alleluia. Come, enjoy rewards and crowns I have prepared for you.” Alleluia is then sung a seventh time as a coda. Following the example of traditional Byzantine music, a continuous isonor drone underlies the work.

Listening to "Silence" by Egberto Gismonti and Charlie Haden #music #jazz #mp3

Cover of In Montreal

 
Egberto Gismonti and Charlie Haden, "In Montreal", ECM 1746, 2001

The combination of bass and acoustic guitar is a daunting one. Without a drummer to keep
time, the rhythmic responsibilities fall on the shoulders of the string players who must
improvise, forge melodies, and support each other simultaneously. Charlie Haden and Egberto
Gismonti, two jazz masters with historic resumés, show the world exactly how it's done.
Recorded live in 1989, this set is a stunning musical dialogue between two intelligent
and creative players. On the opening cut "Salvador" Haden hands the intro to Gismonti
who firmly states the melody then vigorously solos while the bassist pumps out simple
eighth notes sans harmony. Midway through the piece, Gismonti comps with similar figures
while Haden embellishes the guitarist's introductory motifs. When Gismonti switches over
to piano, as in "Maracatu," Silence" and "Palhaco" the harmonic interplay is slightly
altered due to the keyboard's ability to sustain notes with more clarity and precision,
but the ideology remains the same: two players working together to construct a single
sound. The use of bass harmonics as a percussive device in "Em Familia" is intriguing,
especially when Gismonti reciprocates by turning his lightning fast arpeggios into pedal
tones for Haden to expand on. Gismonti's atonal piano break in "Frevo" and the playful
riffs at the onset of "Don Quixote" are equally captivating as Haden juggles half-time,
double-time, and quarter-time figures in a duel of counterpoint solos that make the last
twenty minutes of the concert whiz by. This disc is a must have for jazz players seeking
refreshing ideas in a duo format.

©Tom Semioli

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Egberto Gismonti Website  Charlie Haden Website