The very short finale excerpt featured today in the musical library is from Antonio Salieri’s opera Axur, re d’Ormus. I had heard it for years on my Amadeus soundtrack because it featured in the movie. A lot of the music…
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Awesome God (2001) – Michael W Smith
This is the second song to feature from American Christian singer Michael W Smith. You can find more information about Michael W Smith at my post about his version of Agnus Dei. This song Awesome God and video below demonstrates…
Ave Maria (1944) – Marian Anderson
Ave Maria is one of the world’s most recognisable songs. It was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825. It was composed as a setting of a song (verse XXIX from Canto Three) from Walter Scott’s popular epic poem The Lady…
Autumn Leaves (2015) – Bob Dylan
According to Bob Dylan, a singer has to have lived a little to get to the song’s meaning. “You sing that and you have to know something about love and loss and feel it just as much,” Dylan told AARP…
Autumn Leaves (1998) – Eva Cassidy
This mournful minor-key melody was written by the French-Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma for the ballet Le Rendez-vous, performed in Paris at the end of the second world war. The song transcends genre and has been covered hundreds of times in…
Aubury (1972) – Bread
Keep the tissue box handy because we are going to visit this soft love ballad hit released by the band Bread on their 1972 album Guitar Man. David Gates wrote and composed the song after watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s which…
Arthur McBride (1992) – Bob Dylan
Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBrideAs we went a-walkin’ down by the seasideNow mark what followed and what did betideFor it bein’ on Christmas mornin’Now, for recreation, we went on a trampAnd we met sergeant Napper and corporal…
22/10 – 28/10/19 Rick Danko, Freeze, Blog-Notes and Adam Scott
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Album : Rick Danko – Rick Danko Article by Cincinnati Babyhead: I think you all know that CB is a big fan of The…
At The Mid Hour of Night (2017) – Eleanor McEvoy
At The Mid Hour of Night is an old Irish love ballad written in the 1800s by Thomas Moore who was himself a poet, a sweet-voiced singer and accomplished musician. He is now best remembered for the lyrics of “The…
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Ask the Mountains (1995) – Vangelis
Ask the Mountains is a single by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis from the 1995 record Voices. According to Last FM.com – Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943 in Volos,Greece), known professionally as Vangelis, is a Greek composer of…
