Anne-Sophie Mutter – J.S. Bach’s Partita in D minor
An evening pause: Intense.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: entertainment
Sinéad O’Connor – All apologies
An evening pause: A truly talented singer who has sometimes been her own worst enemy.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
Voces8: J.S Bach’s Jesus bleibet meine Freude
An evening pause: In English this is better known as “Jesu joy of man’s desiring.” Nick Deutsch is on the oboe and Alexander Hamilton is on the organ.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Monkees – Riu Chiu
An evening pause: From their 1967 Christmas show. More information here.
Anastasia Gladilina and Sretensky Monastery Choir – Kyrie Eleison
An evening pause: The performers are obviously Russian, but they provide no English version of their name.
Jars of Clay – Worlds Apart
An evening pause: Not specifically Christmas but the song fits the holiday.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Kelly Clarkson – Silent Night
An evening pause: Performed live on television 2013, with the help of Trisha Yearwood and Reba McEntire.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel
An evening pause: This was first posted in February 2019. I think it bears repeating this Christmas season. As I noted then,
The video replays her singing the same thing three times. There is a good reason, as she almost appears to have begun singing as a lark, and the acoustics of the church astonish her. The repeats help bring out this amazing quality.
Helene Fischer – Feliz Navidad
An evening pause: A Spanish Christmas song, with some English lyrics, sung in Germany. Makes for a good start to this Christmas week.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Big Rude Jake & The Jump City Diplomats – Song for Lilly Christine
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tom Jones & Helene Fischer – Sexbomb
An evening pause: Performed live 2020, probably early in the year before the Wuhan panic struck.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
DiDuLa – Arabica
An evening pause: Performed live in St. Petersburg, 2004.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Third Coast Percussion – Madeira River
An evening pause: This music by Philip Glass, seems quite appropriate for December.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Lidija Bacic Lille – Stop
Sam Cox – The Doodle House
An evening pause: Apparently it took two years to make this video, painting the house along the way. More information here.
Hat tip Cotour.
Reitze Smits – J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C minor
An evening pause: Performed live November 29th 2013 at the Lutheran Church, The Hague. There is something hypnotic about this. Watch and try to distinguish the different melodic lines produced by his feet vs his fingers.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Sara Evans – No Place That Far
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Allison Williams – Nature Boy
An evening pause: The producers of this video, VideosRecordedLive, describe this as music used as the theme for the television show, Mad Men, to which they added lyrics from a Nat King Cole song. However, Annie Haslam performed this song with these lyrics as far back as 1997.
No matter. They do a beautiful job.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
Haley Reinhart – Creep
An evening pause: Another nice Postmodern Jukebox performance.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Alice In Wonderland – I’m Late
An evening pause: This pause is my apology for forgetting to schedule something tonight. Pauses shall resume as normal tomorrow.