Maria Callas.

A somewhat controversial singer whose range was just short of three octaves; but one has to admit it is difficult not to get caught up in the emotion created by her voice – wonderful….

Conjure One & Azam Ali.

John Coltrane – Equinox (Original)

John Coltrane – Equinox.

Patrik Jablonski plays the Warsaw Concerto.

“We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.” Primo Levi.

Henryk Górecki – Symphony Nº3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

For those who have not listened to this (there must be some) please take some time out, put your headphones on and hopefully enjoy.
N.B there is a long pause between each movement.

For those who celebrate Easter.

John Tavener – Song of the Angel with Patricia Rozario (soprano).

This lady has the most beautiful voice.

Lisa Gerrard – All Along The Watchtower.

Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim.

Gary Moore.

Gary Moore – Still Got The Blues.

1952 – 2011.

The Choir of New College, Oxford.

Music at its most sublime.

Luciano Pavarotti – Maestro.

12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007

The Oud.

I hope this is an easy introduction to the Oud: for those not familiar with this instrument.

Lou Reed.

This is wild……..

Philip Glass & Naguib Mahfouz.

Listening to some Philip Glass while reading Naguib Mahfouz’s trilogy of colonial Egypt – The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street. The books take you through the history of Cairo at the start of the 20th century, using the trials and tribulations experienced by three generations of the same family.

wiki/Cairo_Trilogy

One can see why he was given the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature.

Donald Fagen.

For those that missed this one first time round 🙂 and as Mobius of (http://mobiusfaith.wordpress.com) commented “One of the best albums of all time” it is on YouTube in full! Enjoy………

Leonard Cohen – First we take manhattan.

NASA | SDO’s Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit – YouTube.

This from the NASA Goddard site.

On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event–the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

Some remarkable footage…….!