3. De Torrente In Via Bibet from Dixit Dominus by Handel.
The words mean and 'he shall drink from the brook in the way', a brief stop for refreshments in a piece generally about how the word of the Lord is truth and he's going to trample all his enemies in crush them to dust, lovely. (Dixit Dominus means 'thus saith the Lord'/ 'The Lord Said'). Handel wrote it while living in Rome in 1707 where there was a temporary ban on opera in the Papal States so even though he was more into secular and dramatic music at the time it might explain why he went for this religious text (although he did plenty plenty plenty of religious pieces throughout his life anyway so maybe that wasn't the reason).
2.Oboe Concerto in D minor (Adagio) by Alessandro Marcello
I don't know too much about this one, I came across it used in the murder scene of Werner Herzog's version of 'Woyzeck', it's a thing Herzog does a lot, to use German folk tunes and/or classical music in really dark moments of his films, I was looking at it 'cause I write a little bit about Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' (based on the same play) in my thesis. There's also a connection from Herzog to Georg Buchner's Lenz which I quote in Endless Bliss but I can't remember exactly how that works now so never mind, I got quite excited when I discovered it though and have it mapped out on a large piece of paper which is likely now all scrunched up and torn under my bed somewhere.
Anyway (John Creedon Voice)
This is the second movement of an oboe concerto (so featuring oboe with an orchestra in supporting role). There's three movements altogether, the middle movement of a concerto is usually a bit slower and sadder (like this one).
Hildegard von BANGIN' or Hildegard Von BLINGEN as she is also known. Was quite the wonder woman, well worth looking up and other w- words. wise, and witchy. There's a radio documentary about her here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047c312 I think there may also be a telly version on the beeb somewhere. This is one of her shorter pieces, its an 'antiphon', which is kind of a short 'inbetweeny' bit in church services, like having a short weird track between two other tracks. Its usually just one voice singing one sentence. Music described as 'antiphonal' is usually referring to two groups in a choir or two choirs doing a sort of call and response type thing. The two are related cause in the church the priest might sing one line and then the choir would respond, kind of like priests do in spoken mass today. In Finbarr's we called them the 'responses', although we rarely sang responses as lovely as this one. There's loads more to read about this piece here: http://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/07/o-virtus-sapientie-antiphon.html
O virtus Sapientie, que circuiens circuisti, comprehendendo omnia in una via que habet vitam, tres alas habens, quarum una in altum volat et altera de terra sudat et tercia undique volat. Laus tibi sit, sicut te decet, O Sapientia. O Wisdom’s energy! Whirling, you encircle and everything embrace in the single way of life. Three wings you have: one soars above into the heights, one from the earth exudes, and all about now flies the third. Praise be to you, as is your due, O Wisdom.
1.O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard Von Bingen 2.Oboe Concerto in D minor (Adagio) by Alessandro Marceelo 3.De torrente in via bibet (from Dixit Dominus) by George F. Haendel 4.Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré 5.Agnus Dei (from Requiem) by Gabriel Fauré 6.Nocturne no. 20 in C# minor by Frédéric Chopin 7.Vocalise (Etude) by Oliver Messiaen 8.Five Pieces for Orchestra Op.10 by Anton Webern
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3. De Torrente In Via Bibet from Dixit Dominus by Handel.
The words mean and 'he shall drink from the brook in the way', a brief stop for refreshments in a piece generally about how the word of the Lord is truth and he's going to trample all his enemies in crush them to dust, lovely. (Dixit Dominus means 'thus saith the Lord'/ 'The Lord Said'). Handel wrote it while living in Rome in 1707 where there was a temporary ban on opera in the Papal States so even though he was more into secular and dramatic music at the time it might explain why he went for this religious text (although he did plenty plenty plenty of religious pieces throughout his life anyway so maybe that wasn't the reason).
2.Oboe Concerto in D minor (Adagio) by Alessandro Marcello
I don't know too much about this one, I came across it used in the murder scene of Werner Herzog's version of 'Woyzeck', it's a thing Herzog does a lot, to use German folk tunes and/or classical music in really dark moments of his films, I was looking at it 'cause I write a little bit about Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' (based on the same play) in my thesis. There's also a connection from Herzog to Georg Buchner's Lenz which I quote in Endless Bliss but I can't remember exactly how that works now so never mind, I got quite excited when I discovered it though and have it mapped out on a large piece of paper which is likely now all scrunched up and torn under my bed somewhere.
Anyway (John Creedon Voice)
This is the second movement of an oboe concerto (so featuring oboe with an orchestra in supporting role). There's three movements altogether, the middle movement of a concerto is usually a bit slower and sadder (like this one).
1.O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard Von Bingen
Hildegard von BANGIN' or Hildegard Von BLINGEN as she is also known. Was quite the wonder woman, well worth looking up and other w- words. wise, and witchy. There's a radio documentary about her here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047c312 I think there may also be a telly version on the beeb somewhere.
This is one of her shorter pieces, its an 'antiphon', which is kind of a short 'inbetweeny' bit in church services, like having a short weird track between two other tracks. Its usually just one voice singing one sentence. Music described as 'antiphonal' is usually referring to two groups in a choir or two choirs doing a sort of call and response type thing. The two are related cause in the church the priest might sing one line and then the choir would respond, kind of like priests do in spoken mass today. In Finbarr's we called them the 'responses', although we rarely sang responses as lovely as this one.
There's loads more to read about this piece here: http://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/07/o-virtus-sapientie-antiphon.html
O virtus Sapientie,
que circuiens circuisti,
comprehendendo omnia
in una via que habet vitam,
tres alas habens,
quarum una in altum volat
et altera de terra sudat
et tercia undique volat.
Laus tibi sit, sicut te decet, O Sapientia.
O Wisdom’s energy!
Whirling, you encircle
and everything embrace
in the single way of life.
Three wings you have:
one soars above into the heights,
one from the earth exudes,
and all about now flies the third.
Praise be to you, as is your due, O Wisdom.
1.O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard Von Bingen
2.Oboe Concerto in D minor (Adagio) by Alessandro Marceelo
3.De torrente in via bibet (from Dixit Dominus) by George F. Haendel
4.Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré
5.Agnus Dei (from Requiem) by Gabriel Fauré
6.Nocturne no. 20 in C# minor by Frédéric Chopin
7.Vocalise (Etude) by Oliver Messiaen
8.Five Pieces for Orchestra Op.10 by Anton Webern