Thanks Jim.
Moby made a surprise move to reimagine classics from his lenghty catalog as orchestral and acoustic reworkings. On Deutsche Grammophon!
There are some excellent tracks on this release. I have already played it a couple of times.
I remember Beethoven being described as a “titan wrestling with the gods” in a book I read as a child. And while I love many composers, and many types of classical music, there was none I enjoyed as much, until my father—an opera fan to this day and sponsor of Met broadcasts at his local, small-town theater—gave me a copy of Verdi’s Requiem while I was in law school. To this day, it remains my favorite work. The combination of sorrow and joy still brings me to tears. Tomorrow in the US is Memorial Day; it is also the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre [link to an essay that I think sets the two events in excellent relief]. As many of us do, I live in a flawed country, one whose ideals are marred by her sins, and whose sins illuminate the importance, and the beauty, of the ideals. Music like this speaks to me the way Browning did:
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?
Having ideals that exceed our capabilities is not a failing; it is an epic odyssey. The Telarc Requiem is my favorite for RQ/SQ, but it’s the Solti I first loved.
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Qobuz 24/96
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Qobuz 16/44.1
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Tidal FLAC 44.1kHz 24bit, MQA 44.1kHz
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Just listened to this last night
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Love shirley horn
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Really interesting sir