Maurice Ravel - Pièce en forme de Habanera - (1907)
Peter Schmalfuss, piano
Elisabeth Ganter, clarinet
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) originally composed his “Pièce en forme de Habanera” as a Vocalise etude en forme de Habanera for bass voice and piano in 1907. A song without words, Ravel took as his model the slow, sultry Spanish dance called the habanera — like most French composers of the period, Ravel was fascinated by the music of Spain — and used it as the basis of a blindingly difficult virtuoso exercise for the bass voice. Ravel later transcribed the work for cello and piano — a transcription that retains all the virtuosity of the original — and from this several other arrangements have been made for virtually any and all instruments with aspirations to virtuoso glory.
(via tierradentro)
Hal Hartley - Surviving Desire (by TheBigBigO)
Trust (Hal Hartley) (by juancosaco)
"In trying to understand her, we must not be distracted—as is only too likely to happen on a first reading—by considering how far, and at what points, we agree or disagree. We must simply expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of saints…Our first experience of Simone Weil should not be expressible in terms of approval or dissent. I cannot conceive of anybody’s agreeing with all her views, or of not disagreeing violently with some of them. But agreement and rejection are secondary: what matters is to make contact with a great soul"
- T.S. Eliot on Simone Weil (via asthepoemsgo)
"Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn’t happiness last for ever? For ever wasn’t a bit too long.”
― Katherine Mansfield"
- (via journalofanobody)
