DESCENDING INTO THE SHORT DAYS OF THE DARK SEASON, once again we seek music that portrays human emotions at their most vulnerable: music of pathos, loss and remembrance. These are some of our most powerful and deeply affecting feelings, and they require music that touches the depths of our souls.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a special program of sacred choral, vocal and instrumental music for the dark season, from longtime guest producer ELLEN HOLMES called LAMENTO 2.
A lament is a cathartic song or poem expressing grief or mourning: a recognition of the sadness of mortality. Many of the oldest and most enduring poems in human history have been laments; they're found in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Hindu Vedas, and in ancient Near Eastern religious texts, including the Old Testament.
We'll feature selections extending across 500 years of western classical music, by JOSQUIN DES PREZ, CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, CARLO GESUALDO, DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE, ANTONIO VIVALDI, GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, LILY BOULANGER, RALPH LAURIDSEN, LISA GERRARD, STELLAMARA, LES NOUVELLES POLYPHONIES CORSES, and MAX RICHTER.
Threnodies for the dark season : LAMENTO 2...on this transmission... of Hearts of Space.
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I am unable to listen to your program due to the use of Adobe Flash. Windows Phone has no support for flash videos. I used to listen to your program; but, now my schedule doesn't allow for that. How can I listen to hos when all I have is a Windows Phone? I am told that I need to find my mudic/videos on html5 sites.
Posted by: ichi | 15 November 2015 at 02:16 PM
Very sorry Ichi, but we don't support Windows Phone. We have native apps for iOS and Android, which represents over 95% of users. The next version of the Hearts of Space web application will not use Flash and will be HTML5 compatible.
Posted by: Stephen Hill | 15 November 2015 at 03:21 PM