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likesthecoat) wrote2007-08-09 07:38 pm
likesthecoat) wrote2007-08-09 07:38 pm
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CDs for Lorne: bedtime
Track 1: Prelude in C Major, Bach
Track 2: Hi, Major. It's Ianto. Of course. I thought I'd do something a bit different this time around. Since most of the music I've given you has been of the popular or alternative variety, this time we'll go with something a bit more traditional. I have not, however, included any Welsh male choirs. Perhaps next time. This CD is intended to relax you, which is why it's the bedtime CD. Yes. Let's go on to the next song.
Track 3: Guitar Concerto in D - Adagio, Vivaldi
Track 4: I admit that my taste in classical is not particularly adventurous. I'm sure that as a violinist you're quite familiar with all of these. But I feel when sharing something that has meaning to you with someone else, it's not really about originality.
Track 5: Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven
Track 6: To be honest I don't know much about composers. I know that Beethoven was deaf. I know that Bach dedicated everything he wrote to God. I know that Vivaldi was a bit of a scandal and that Mozart died young. This is one area where it's not really about knowing things for me--it's just about how it makes you feel. I do believe that classical music--that most music, really, but classical music in particular--is good for you. It nourishes something deep inside you, like chocolate for the soul.
[pause, laughter]
That's a bit ridiculous, isn't it. Let's move on.
Track 7: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Bach
Track 8: While I was at Cambridge I went to a friend's organ recital, and when she started playing that last piece, the "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," there were audible gasps of pleasure from the audience.
Perhaps that's what I meant by what I was saying earlier, that there's a place in all of us that music touches like nothing else. It's a pleasure not like food, not like company, but something . . . God, I don't even know. [laughs] I do like words, I'm just not always very good at them.
Track 9: Gymnopedie #1, Satie
Track: 10: [Welsh]
Track 11: Clair de Lune, Debussy
Track 12: So. I suppose I should translate what I just said. Um . . . well, basically, I said, I miss you very much. And . . . and not a moment goes by that I'm not thinking of you. And you are the best thing that's happened to me in a long time, and I'm so glad I met you.
Track 13: Appalacia Waltz, Mark O'Connor
Track 14: Dw i’n dy garu di, Lorne. Nos da.
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I love what Ianto said about music and what it does and means to people.]
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