If you’re lying in bed at night with a head full of rambling thoughts that are incessantly chasing away your dreams, then go ahead and play this week’s honourable mention: “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Part. The soft silky melody of the violin is going to make you feel like you’re resting on a puffy cloud, while the lullaby-like background piano droplets will spellbind you in a deep and comforting sleep.… Read more
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The honourable mention of the week goes to “Dirait-On”, a song from the cycle “Les Chansons des Roses” by the American composer Morten Lauridsen. This is a setting of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, an Austrian poet who, besides being one of the most lyrical German-language poets, also wrote over 400 poems directly in French.… Read more