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Where is the light?

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Published: 30 December 2015
Cançó de la setmana: Det mörknar ute (J. Sibelius) - M. Groop, L. Derwinger
 
Mary reading - French Book of Hours (Fitzwilliam Museum)

Last week, we talked about one of the most common images in Christmas music, a child cradled in his mother’s arms; Today, we're talking about another essential idea in Christmas: light, since the winter solstice, which coincides with Christmas time (well, to be precise, it's the other way around) marks the return of light after winter’s long nights. Christian tradition puts together both images, the birth of a child is also the birth of light and hope, and so, we celebrate Saint Lucy's Day, decorate our homes with candles and after Tree Kings' Day, we realize with joy that, suddenly, days get longer. Northern lands suffer the lack of light more than we, Mediterranean people do, of course; They have extremely long nights and the sun shines so weakly that you hardly feel it on your face. In this context, the song I'm sharing today, Det mörknar ute (Outside it is  [...]

Christmas Time

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Published: 23 December 2015
Song of the week: A Slumber Song of the Madonna (S. Barber) - C. Studer, J. Browning
 
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist - Giovanni Lanfranco

It's Christmas Time. In this year’s calendar, three weeks to go until Three Kings' Day and, as always, my three respective posts will be related to these dates. To begin with, we have one of the most usual Christmas musical images, a lullaby; after all, we celebrate a child's birth. So far we've listened to Brahm's Geistliches Wiegenlied, Britten's That jongë Child and Balulalow and Strauss's Weihnachtslied; today, we add a song by Barber to our list, A Slumber Song of the Madonna.

No hay cantar sin amor

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Published: 16 December 2015
Song of the week: El mirar de la maja (E. Granados) - P. Vázquez, E. Rapado
 
No hay cantar sin amorYou might recognize the title of the post as a verse from a song by Enric Granados. Or perhaps you recognize it as a CD title and might suppose what I'll talk about... and you're right (in both cases) You know that I don't usually talk about recordings but, as you also know, I like breaking my own rules from time to time; This week, I would to talk about the first recording of the mezzosoprano Pilar Vázquez and the pianist Elisa Rapado, No hay cantar sin amor (There is no song without love).

One of the first people I followed on Twitter was Elisa, because I knew her from her blog In meinem Leben, in meinem Lied (one of the blogs you can find linked on the right column, below). That was more than three  [...]

The ladybug

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Published: 09 December 2015
Songs of the week: Marienwrümchen (R. Schumann) - A. Murray, G. Johnson / Marienwürmchen (J. Brahms) - A. Bourvé, T. Hartlieb
 
Still life with a convolvulus and a ladybird - James HollandThis week, the post is dedicated to those of you who, either prefer short posts or don't like winter. To the former, because you've earned it with your patience during the last three weeks, when I expanded my posts a bit too much. Today, I'll be brief to compensate. To those who don't like winter, because in full December, we’ll make up our own spring.

It's springtime, don't you feel the sun’s warmth on your skin? And the light so bright? Can you see that child with a ladybug on his hands? The ladybug, the cutest bug. So rounded, with its bright red and its seven black spots. Mother Nature treats some better than others and the ladybug, besides being cute, is prized by everybody [...]

Kann er was? (II)

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Published: 02 December 2015
Song of the week: Der Vater mit dem Kind (F. Schubert) - A. Rolfe-Johnson, G. Johnson
 
Schubert at the Piano with the Singer Michael Vogl - Moritz von Schwind, 1825.

Last week I started a post dedicated to Franz Schubert's friends; as it grew and grew I decided to split it into two parts, and this is the second one. We talked at the first part about Joseph von Spaun, Johann Mayrhofer, Franz von Schober and Johann Michael Vogl; today I'm introducing a few more members of Schubert's circle.

Not all the friendships were long-lasting. The life in Vienna was hard in those years; at first because of the war, while Schubert was at Konvikt, then because of the repression of Klemens von Metternich's government. One victim of that situation was Johann Senn, a fellow student of Franz, who in 1813 lost his scholarship (that's to say, the possibility of study at the board school) because he was part of an intellectual circle and that wasn't [...]

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