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Every Single Day
04:25
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Out of the Darkness
03:50
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Santiago
03:04
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Santiago - Federico García Lorca
It's raining in Santiago
sweet love of mine.
White camellia of the air,
obscurely shines the sun.
It's raining in Santiago
on this dark night
Grasses of silver and dream
cover the empty moon.
See the rain on the streets
An outcry of glass and stone.
See in the vanishing winds,
the shadow and ash of your sea.
Santiago, so far away the Sun.
Water of an ancient morning
trembles deep within in my heart.
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Chove en Santiago
meu doce amor.
Camelia branca do ar
brila entebrecida ô sol.
Chove en Santiago
na noite escura.
Herbas de prata e de sono
cobren a valeira lúa.
Olla a choiva pola rúa,
laio de pedra e cristal.
Olla no vento esvaído
soma e cinza do teu mar.
Soma e cinza do teu mar
Santiago, lonxe do sol.
Ãgoa da mañán anterga
trema no meu corazón.
from 2nd Book of Songs, released November 4, 2022
Soprano: Susanna MacRae, Guitar: David Black
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Cinematic Memories
06:13
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Strings in the Void
06:50
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Sainte
03:00
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Sainte - Stéphane Mallarmé
A la fenêtre recélant
Le santal vieux qui se dédore
De sa viole étincelant
Jadis avec flûte ou mandore,
Est la sainte pâle, étalant
Le livre vieux qui se déplie
Du Magnificat ruisselant
Jadis selon vêpre et complie:
A ce vitrage d'ostensoir
Que frôle une harpe par l'Ange
Formée avec son vol du soir
Pour la délicate phalange
Du doigt que, sans le vieux santal
Ni le vieux livre, elle balance
Sur le plumage instrumental,
Musicienne du silence.
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At the window concealing
The old sandalwood that
Is losing its gilt
Of her viol once sparking
With flute or mandola,
Is the pale saint; She displays the old
unfolding book of the Magnificat
flowing in ages past according to
vespers and compline:
Within this monstrance glass brushed
by a harp formed by the Angel
with his evening flight for the delicate tip
Of the finger which, without the old sandalwood
or the old book, she holds poised on the
instrumental plumage, musician of silence
from 2nd Book of Songs, released November 4, 2022
Soprano: Susanna MacRae, Guitar: David Black
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A Glass Sculpture
04:24
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8. |
Light without Shadows
03:55
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'A Country'
It is nowhere, and I am familiar with it as one is with a a song.
I know its background, the terraces
of cloud that are the hanging gardens of the imagination.
No sun rises there, so there is no sun
to set. It is the mind suffuses it with a light
that is without shadows. Invisible fountains play, though their skirts
are of silk.
And who lives there, you ask, who walks its unmettalled highways?
It is a peoplewho pay their taxes
in poetry: who repair broken names; who wear the past
as a button-hole at their children's marriage with what is to be.
R.S. Thomas
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April Improvisation
05:14
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11. |
Radio Love Song
03:05
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Strings in Blue
04:14
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13. |
Fallen to Dust
06:04
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'Requiescat' by Oscar Wilde
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone
She is at rest.
Peace, Peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life’s buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
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14. |
Terminal Beach
06:15
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David Braid London, UK
David Braid, composer of some 180+ works, including 3 symphonies, a viola concerto & 90+ pieces including guitar, has had
his work performed in Europe and the Americas & broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Steve Reich said of his work ‘Morning’ (soprano/string qt) “Real honest stuff”.
Major UK performances include Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, King’s Place, Wilton’s Music Hall, 1901 Arts Club, etc.
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Minimalist modern classical that captures the slowly unfolding beauty of post-rock groups like Rachel’s.
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Imprints 1 & 2
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These almost heartbreakingly gentle felted piano compositions have the delicacy and loveliness of slow-falling snow.
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Landscape Traces: New music for khaen, volume two
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