A Little Sunday Listening
So, when I'm not listening to Texas alt-country or 80's music or (gawd forbid) local talk radio, one of the types of music I really enjoy is religious choral music.
Even though I'm not particularly religious.
Today, Bach-Radio.com served me up a composer in the genre whom I hadn't heard before: Don Carlo Gesualdo.
I pulled up some more stuff on Rhapsody, which posted this useful blurb:
When not murdering people, this Italian prince wrote inventive and progressive madrigals.
Ha! Outstanding. He was also married to his first cousin. There's more fun detail on Wikipedia.
Whatever the case, his music is beautiful.
Another composer in this rough genre whom I really like is Giovanni de Palestrina.
I know this is a niche request -- but if any readers listen to this kind of stuff and have other suggestions, please do share!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/19/06 17:05 | Music | Technorati
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You should ask Ma TP. She lives for choral music. Bach's cantatas, of course, are unparalleled. Orff's Carmina Burana and Beethoven's ninth, are deservedly famous, though too many listen only to the first few cantos of Carmina Burana without realizing the rest of it is quite lovely.
Verdi mostly wrote opera, but anything choral that he wrote is nothing if not sublime.
Posted by TP @ 20:08 on 02/19/06
Gesualdo wrote music that was about 500 years before his time.
There's an early music public radio program based out of Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/~har...
They did a show last year on Gesualdo. Here's the link to the Real Player file:
http://wfiu.indiana.edu/har...
Posted by Rusty Shackleford @ 10:56 on 02/20/06
Every Sunday morning from 11-12, KMFA-FM (89.5) does choral music. I'm not sure what their webcast capabilities are, but they do madrigals (for which my group received 1's across the board in UIL in high school, thank you very much) once in a while, and their offerings are nearly always outstanding, and usually a little outside the mainstream.
Posted by another precinct chair @ 14:35 on 02/21/06
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