Hanging Valleys
Michael Phillips and Thom Byles
Fortaleza - EP
1. Fundamentals (0:00)
2. The Weight (3:38)
3. Arion (8:06)
4. Jaguar Tones (13:36)
5. Fortaleza (17:01)
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Behind the Backs of Houses - EP
1. Greeting the Night (0:00)
2. The Shining Mountain (4:35)
3. First Light (8:31)
4. Sleeping Sound (13:57)
5. Behind the Backs of Houses (18:42)
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Tomorrow I'll Be Gone - Full Album
1. Tomorrow I'll Be Gone (0:00)
2. Pistol Shrimp (4:43)
3. Deep Reverence (8:40)
4. Jupiter (12:07)
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Interview:
The Prisoner Puzzle - Interview with Patrick McGoohan
Mr. McGoohan discusses his hit TV series The Prisoner with host, Warner Troyer.
The Prisoner was a 17 part series shown in 1967 through to 1968. Published by ITC/ITV, over 17 million viewers tuned in to watch each episode. It featured one man's quest to retain his individuality in an enclosed village. Both literal and allegorical, the deep and dark series confused many on its release and has become one of the most popular shows ever broadcast.
The Ontario Educational Communications Authority produced the interview in 1977.
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Crafts:
Building A Hammer Dulcimer - Start to Finish
It took about one month to build the dulcimer, and another month to tweak little things on it.
The three tunes in the video are:
No More Vibe (played on this dulcimer)
Life Is Simple Right Now (with Simon Chrisman)
Darkwood
00:00 Pinblocks and Rails
01:48 Braces and Back
06:47 Soundboard
09:43 Bridges
12:27 Pins and Trim
14:54 Strings
15:45 Tuned up Demo
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Virtual Relaxation Space:
Peaceful Forest Stream
Filming Location: Strandja Natural Park, Bulgaria
Length: 9hrs
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Luminescent Harpe & Handpan - Nuages
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Feature:
The Largest Handmade Model Of Imperial Rome
Known as "Il Plastico", this 20 X 20 meter model of the imperial city, created by Italo Gismondi, offers a unique bird's eye view of the city. Featured in the film Gladiator, the model shows off the city to its greatest extent under Constantine. The Museum della Civilta' Romana in E.U.R. that houses the model will reopen in 2025.
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Documentary:
Michelangelo - "Matter and Spirit"
Michelangelo (1475-1564), full name Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, who was one of the most inspired creators in the history of art, and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.
A Florentine, although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo—Michelangelo continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its culture throughout his long life. He spent the greater part of his adulthood in Rome, employed by the popes: characteristically, however, he left instructions that he be buried in Florence, and his body was placed there in a fine monument in the church of Santa Croce.
During his long lifetime, Michelangelo was an intimate of princes and popes, from Lorenzo de’ Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III (1439-1503), as well as cardinals, painters, and poets.
Two generations of Italian painters and sculptors were impressed by his treatment of the human figure: Raphael, Annabale Caracci, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. His dome for St. Peter’s became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the US, as well as the Capitol in Washington, DC are derived from it.
Michelangelo is celebrated for such masterpieces as his statues of David and Moses, and the Pieta (1497). His painting of the Sistine Chapel took four years to complete (1508-1512).
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David Sylvian - Blue Of Noon
Piano and Synths: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Double Bass: Wayne Braithwaite
Drums: Steve Jansen
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Tiny Home Living with Bryce Langston:
"Step Inside Middle Earth: Epic Hobbit Home Tour"
Welcome to the enchanting world of Hobbiton! Join as we take you behind the scenes of the iconic Hobbiton Movie Set, nestled in the picturesque countryside of New Zealand. In this episode, we invite you to step into the whimsical realm of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and discover the magic of hobbit life firsthand.
Hidden under the hills of the Hobbiton, several actual hobbit hole’s have been built that can now be toured! The construction of these incredible home’s took over 10 years and a team of amazing individuals to make possible.
In this video we venture inside one of these cozy hobbit houses, complete with rustic furnishings, intricate woodwork, and delightful nods to Tolkien's beloved stories. From the cozy hearths to the intricately carved doorways, every aspect of these dwellings exudes warmth and charm, giving you the feeling that you’re actually visiting friends in the Shire!
"Now This Tiny House Will Turn Heads"
DIY built and packed to the rafters in style, this home is beautiful in every which way you look. This modern tiny house is nothing short of stunning. Just wait until you see the incredible interior!
I'm always such a big fan of visiting DIY homes. It's in these houses, built by the hands of those who inhabit them, that you see the most loving craftsmanship as people put in the extra mile to complete a home they will live in and enjoy themselves and with their loved ones. This tiny home is no exception and doesn't disappoint.
"UK Actors' Spectacular Tiny Home On London Outskirts"
A DIY build using almost entirely reclaimed materials, there is a tremendous amount to love about this home. It's fantastic, feature packed design makes the home not only lively but also immensely clever and functional.
Harrie and Joe are a fun-loving couple who have constructed a tiny house which is almost as lively as they are, Surrounded by beautiful gardens and with a lovely rural outlook, their stunning home is only a stones throw out of London city.
Perhaps the best part of this tiny house is the fact that it has allowed Harrie and Joe to reduce their financial overheads and work full time doing the work they love as actors. Joe as a stage actor and Harrie who records audio books from her tiny home studio.
"Woman Finds Freedom In A Forest Tiny Home"
In this weeks episode we meet Christine, a remarkable woman who has found personal freedom through living in a remarkable tiny home set amongst the rainforest.
This is a tiny house that has it all. It's beautifully constructed and filled with things which brings Christine joy, even including a piano!
With this stunning tiny house as a launch pad, Christine has taken full advantage of her easy-to-care-for home and lower overheads to do more of the things that she loves, including travel and music.
"French Musician’s Dream Tiny House With Epic Music Studio"
Not only does this tiny house contain a music studio but of course it's also a fully functional home which beautifully encapsulates all of owner Guillaume's needs.
As a musician myself, I'm totally enamoured with what Guillaume has created here. This is a fantastic home which dedicates a tremendous amount of space to what is obviously a true passion.
One of the core tenants of tiny house and small space design is to build in accordance with your need and desires. You need to make sure the home is constructed around how you personally intend to use your space and this home is a phenomenal example of that.
"This Incredible Woman Built Herself A Tiny House In Lockdown"
In this weeks episode we meet Bérangère, an inspiring ***** woman who amazingly built her very own tiny house during lockdown in France. Her spectacular home is named ‘La Belle Idée, which translates to The Beautiful Idea.
Bérangère was inspired to build her tiny home after spending four years traveling and realising she desired a place to call home. With minimal possessions and still wanting a place which would give her options for where she could live, she decided a tiny house would be the perfect home.
Originally, she had intended to construct her home together with others as part of a tiny house building workshop, but lockdown in France put an end to the workshop after the first week and Bérangère was then left to complete the home on her own.
The result is a beautiful and inspiring build.
"Woman's Wondrous Dual Tiny House Home & Art Studio"
In this weeks episode we meet Trees, an inspiring artist who has constructed two beautiful tiny houses to form both her home and art studio. Between the two, she has created an ideal set-up, with one home being a sanctuary where she can relax and sleep and the other, a place for work and creativity.
The two tiny houses are joined by a covered deck which provides additional outdoor living space and combined, they form a dream home for this artist.
"Yoga Teacher's Amazing House Bus & Mobile Studio"
These yoga teachers have done an amazing bus conversion and created not only a beautiful home for themselves but also a mobile yoga studio which will allow them to travel the country while teaching yoga.
This off the grid bus is packed full of really unusual features, including unique indoor tents which help to provide more privacy and rooms within the bus. There’s loads of storage, including really neat ideas such as repurposed airline draws and lots more.
The entire home has been DIY built with the principles of yoga in mind, and the couple have added a large yoga platform onto the roof of the bus turning it into a traveling yoga studio.
"The Nook On The Hill Is Not Your Average Small Home"
The Nook On The Hill isn’t your average house. Far from it. It’s small in size, but huge in heart. There’s love built into the walls of this home. Memory of friends and family. For its builders and owners, Benj and Holly, it’s a place of sanctuary and healing.
This small house has everything. It’s filled with character and brilliant design. Spatially, it’s an efficient home which boasts all the best qualities of tiny homes and small space design in a slightly larger and grounded structure. It’s solar powered and built with many reclaimed materials. It’s filled with art, colour, and treasured handcrafted items.
Beyond all that though, this home has a character which extends out far beyond its brick and mortar. It tells a deep story of love, loss and perseverance.
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Classical Journey:
Wilhelm Stenhammar
c. 1916
Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. Stenhammar himself described the style of his First Symphony in F major as "idyllic Bruckner".[1] He subsequently sought to emancipate himself and write in a more "Nordic" style, looking to Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius for guidance.
From 1906 to 1922 he was Artistic Director and chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony, the first full-time professional orchestra in Sweden. In this capacity, he organizd many performances of music by contemporary Scandinavian composers. In 1909, he briefly held the position of director of music at Uppsala University.
His works were quite varied and included two completed symphonies, a substantial Serenade for Orchestra, piano concertos, piano sonatas, a violin sonata, string quartets, many songs and other vocal works, including several large-scale works for chorus or voices and orchestra.
Writing in The Chamber Music Journal, R.H.R. Silvertrust notes that Stenhammar's string quartets are the most important written between those of Johannes Brahms and Béla Bartók. Whether or not this is so, there is no denying that Stenhammar's quartets represent a very important development during the twenty-five years he was writing chamber music. Tonally, they range from the middle late Romantics to a style akin to mature Sibelius. Though not unknown by the Swedish chamber music public, his string quartets have been neglected elsewhere.
Stenhammar was considered the finest Swedish pianist of his time. Pianists who venture into the realm of the string quartet often wind up writing compositions which sound as though they were composed at, and are perhaps better played on, the piano. That Stenhammar's works show no such trait is because for nearly half of his life, he worked intimately with the Aulin Quartet, the top Swedish string quartet of his day and one of the best then performing in Europe. In fact, he toured throughout Europe with them for many years and a piano quintet was nearly always featured on their programs. Thus it is no accident that his quartets show a fine grasp of instrumental timbre and technique. The part writing is sure, always idiomatic and evenly distributed.
Stenhammar died of a stroke at 56 years of age in Jonsered in the historic province of Västergötland. He is buried in Gothenburg.
Symphony No.1 in F-major (1902-1903)
I. Tempo molto tranquillo, Allegro 00:00-17:10
II. Andante con moto 17:10-27:55
III. Allegro amabile 27:55-37:40
IV. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco, Tranquillo 37:40-53:00
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Symphony No.2 in G-minor (1911-15)
I. Allegro energico 00:00-11:10
II. Andante 11:10-20:15
III. Scherzo. Allegro, ma non troppo presto 20:15-27:30
IV. Finale. Sostenuto-Allegro vivace 27:30-41:50
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano and Orchestra (1893)
I. Molto moderato e maestoso – Sostenuto e tranquillo – Agitato 00:00-15:30
II. Vivacissimo 15;30-20:20
III. Andante 20:20-32:00
IV. Allegro commodo - Andante con moto 32:00-46:05
Love Derwinger, piano
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1907)
I. Introduzione (attacca)
II. Scherzo (attacca)
III. Adagio (attacca)
IV. Finale
Greta Erikson, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Two Sentimental Romances for Violin and Orchestra (1910)
Sentimental Romance No. 1 in A major 00:00-06:45
Sentimental Romance No. 2 in F minor 06:45-13:00
Arve Tellfsen, violin
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stig Westerberg, conductor
Excelsior! Concert Overture (1896)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Serenade in F major for Orchestra (final version) (1912-13 rev. 1919)
I. Overtura: Allegrissimo 00:00-06:45
II. Canzonetta: Tempo di valse, un poco tranquillo 06:45-12:10
III. Scherzo: Presto 12:10-19:50
IV. Notturno: Andante sostenuto 19:50-28:30
V. Finale: Tempo moderato 28:30-37:55
Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Koivula, conductor
Florez och Blanzeflor
Ingvar Wixell, baritone
Stockholms Filharmoniska Orkester
Johan Arnell, conductor
Midwinter (1907)
Gothenburg Concert Hall Choir
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Neeme Järvi, conductor
String Quartet No. 1 in C major (1894)
I. Allegro 00:00-07:35
II. Mesto. Sehr einfach, aber mit der innigsten Empfindung vorzutragen 07:35-17:15
III. Molto tranquillo e commodo / Un pochettino piu leggiero 17:15-23:35
IV. Allegro energico 23:35-32:50
Fresk Quartet
String Quartet No. 2 in C minor (1896)
I. Allegro moderato 00:00-08:10
II. Andante quasi adagio 08:10-15:20
III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 15:20-22:05
IV. Finale. Allegro energico e serioso 22:05-31:20
Copenhagen String Quartet
String Quartet No. 3 in F major (1897-1900)
I. Quasi Andante 00:00-07:15
II. Presto molto agitato 07:15-12:40
III. Lento sostenuto 12:40-19:55
IV. Presto molto agitato 19:55-30:20
Gotland Quartet
String Quartet No. 4 in A minor (1904-09)
I. Allegro ma non troppo 00:00-08:50
II. Adagio 08:50-14:25
III.Scherzo. Allegro 14:25-20:20
IV. Aria variata. Andante semplice 20:20-30:25
Gotland Quartet
String Quartet No. 5 in C major (1910)
I. Allegro molto con spirito 00:00-05:10
II. Ballata. Allegretto scherzando 05:10-12:45
III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 12:45-14:45
IV. Finale. Allegro molto 14:45-19:05
Fresk Quartet
String Quartet No. 6 in D minor (1916)
I. Tempo moderato, sempre un poco rubato 00:00-07:55
II. Allegro vivace 07:55-10:45
III. Poco adagio 10:45-18:40
IV. Presto 18:40-24:55
Copenhagen String Quartet
String Quartet in F minor (1897)
I. Allegro 00:00
II. Adagio 06:20
III. Allegro giocoso 12:54
IV. Allegretto 16:48
Allegro brillante in E-flat major (1891)
Allegro ma non tanto in A major (1895)
Violin Sonata in A minor (1900)
I: Allegro con anima 00:00
II: Andantino 7:18
III: Allegro 15:02
Tale Olssson, violin
Lucia Negro, piano
Piano Sonata No.1 in C major (1880)
I: 00:00
II: 05:29
III: 07:36
IV: 09:22
Piano Sonata No.2 in C minor (1881)
I: 00:00
II: 06:15
III: 10:06
Sonata No. 4 in G minor (1890)
I. Allegro vivace e passionato 00:00
II. Romanza: Andante quasi adagio 8:00
III. Scherzo: Allegretto 12:12
IV. Rondo: Allegretto 14:40
Nikolas Sivelöv, pianist
Piano Sonata in A-flat major (1895)
Moderato quasi andante 00:00
Scherzo: Molto vivace 05:54
Lento e mesto 14:19
Finale: Allegro 17:21
A Dream Play (Ett drömspel), a drama by August Strindberg (1916)
Hedvig Lagerkvist and Thomas Ungewitter, narrators
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Arvo Volmer, conductor
Lodolezzi Sings (Lodolezzi sjunger), a drama by Hjalmar Bergman (1919)
I. Elegy (Introduction to Act I) 00:00-03:25
II. Intermezzo 03:25-07:35
III. Karneval 07:35-18:00
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
As You Like It (Som ni behagar), a drama by William Shakespeare (1920)
No.1. Intrada 00:00-01:15
Nos. 6-7. Allegretto tranquillo 01:15-03:25
No. 8. Allegro-Adagio 03:25-05:20
No. 10. Allegretto 05:20-06:10
No. 11. Allegretto sostenuto 06:10-07:45
No. 12. Presto 07:45-09:25
Nos. 13 & 15. Andante 09:25-12:30
No. 16. Pastorale. Allegretto 12:30-14:05
No. 17. Lento grazioso 14:05-20:15
No. 18. Allegro 20:15-21:55
No. 22. Allegretto 21:55-24:00
No. 23. Andante 24:00-26:20
No. 24. Danza moderato 26:20-27:15
Caroline Sjöberg, soprano
Helén Finnberg, soprano
Peter Boman, baritone
Magnus Nilsson, bass
Helsingborg Concert Hall Choir
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Arvo Volmer, conductor
Chitra, a drama by Rabindranath Ta***** (1921)
I. Allegro appassionata 00:00-01:35
II. Tempo moderato - Allegretto mosso, sempre dolcissimo 01:35-05:20
III. Recitando, passionato e patetico - Andante sostenuto 05:20-09:10
IV. Andante sostenuto 09:10-11:00
V. Lo stesso tempo 11:00-14:00
VI. Lo stesso tempo 14:00-16:55
VII. Andante - Molto sostenuto - Andante serioso - Andante risoluto 16:55-22:10
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Romeo and Juliet, a drama by William Shakespeare (1922)
Arranged by Hilding Rosenberg
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Arvo Volmer, conductor