What are you listening to?

C.M. von Weber, Clarinet concerto no. 2 ... because I am going to play it next spring

 

This was a 2013 vinyl only release which magically showed up on Tidal two weeks ago. It's a fabulous collection.



https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=rrq9ZTYqfb0

 

This is a beautiful, but very sad song composed during WW2 by the famous Mikis Theodorakis whose music I'm very familiar with since the time I lived in Greece. Maria Farantouri is singing it and her voice is so lilting. My wife's cousin asked me to translate it for her and when I did, she burst into tears. It's about a beautiful young girl who was so adored by her Mom and her brother and she was taken away on a train, and perished in the Holocaust.

Whoever wants a translation is free to ask me.

 

Another lovely song from Greece sung by Mikis Theodorakis. This song brings tears to my eyes - it really does! (and I get very nostalgic!)

Sto Perigiali to Kryfo means "On The Deserted Seashore."

It's a song about it not being good to live in the past too much and the necessity of having to go on with life.

 

Oh yeah.....

 

Very !

 

"20th Century Masters, The Best of Andres Segovia".
The best classical guitarist of his time.
Playing in my truck's CD player all this week.

 

My wife was yelling at me "Jeff, stop singing that - you're going to get in a fight!"

I was with her in a shopping mall near our house, and I was in a musical mood so I started singing this nice song in a very loud voice. Truthfully, there is a lot, and I mean a LOT of politics behind this song. It came out after the fall of the Greek junta in 1974. I used to hear a lot of this music while I was living in Greece and I really enjoy some of it.

 

Here's another great song which gets my wife hates to hear me sing. I heard it at a Mikis Theodorakis concert a week before my family and I left Greece to move here to Canada. I was at this concert with a bunch of my friends, and when this song began we started singing it and waving Greek flags. I was a bit sad because I was not looking forward to moving here!

 

Haven't played it in a while, but here is an album that has been with me for thirty years.... He is just an impeccable musician and artist. Ive seen him solo three decades ago, with The Dead two or so ago, with Bob Weir five years ago... When he performs, he just owns you.

 

Hornsby contributed Valley Road to this album, but here's the John Hiatt /Rosanne Cash track.



https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=m4PvPQ-wq84