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IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library:

…Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

Check it out. Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach & Mozart… and lots more!

[wow, it's been a while since my last music post...]

Walking outside this afternoon reminds me of this lovely hymn. Enjoy and have a great weekend.

老友 Charis 和 Anson 的 One Body，歷4年之久終於出新碟，我當然要在此勁推！新碟 「one heart 同心」可在這裡試聽。

Can you see it too?

I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes

I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

[Chorus]
Hosanna Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest [x2]

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We’re on our knees
We’re on our knees

[Chorus]

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity

[Chorus x2]

Hosanna in the highest

同細佬Adrian 和 Jocelyn 做的專訪：

死唔死，來了四日（拍攝時），「我鍾意Hong Kong 多過 Canada…」

Conductor Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

For 20 minutes, he talks about how to run your company, on leadership, his conflict resolution work in Ireland — all at the same time while he makes you absolutely love classical music all over again.

“And you know I have a defintion of success. For me, it’s very simple, it’s not about wealth and fame and power. It’s about how many shining eyes I have around me.”

[link: TED]

Jeremy Eichler is Looking for clues to a pianist’s afterlife, in which he rightly identifies Gould’s retreat in order to be (truly and rightly) heard:

The deeper paradox behind his controversial withdrawal from the concert stage, behind his scathing remarks about audiences and his love of solitude, was that it coexisted with a desperate urge to communicate intimately with his listeners. “There is no greater community of spirit than that between the artist and the listener at home, communing with the music,” he wrote. And he actually seemed to mean it. Beyond the brilliant pianism and the charismatic eccentricity, Gould’s enduring allure may also stem from the way he withdrew – just as so many have today – embubbling himself in technology, without resigning himself to the isolation and solipsism that would become such a mixed inheritance of the digital revolution.

Read it all here.

Miserere Mei Deus, Allegri’s most well-known masterpiece. I first came across it in the early 90′s. The first time I heard it was from the (at that time) not so well-known Tallis Scholars. It was love at first sight. The tranquil nature of it is so mesmerizing, hearing it is like receiving the absolution that the Psalmist desperately seeks from above.

Not sure why, but the music rings in my mind tonight. So I thought I should check it out if it is in youtube in order to share with all of you as well, and voilà! Here is a version from the King’s Chapel Choir:

And because of this post, I went to the Tallis Scholars website and learned that they have made another recording of Miserere last year! Wow, who would have thought!