It was a long week! Let's "chill" with a leap back in time and watch Luciana Serra singing “Non piangete, o sventurati” from Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira.

I'm in the mood for Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, so here we go. This is footage from Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland, from 2015. Gauthier Broutin (cello), Violaine Despeyroux (viola), Malgorzata Wasiucionek and Elin Kolev (violins)

Nathan Milstein performing Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006

Hilary Hahn playing Bach's Adagio from Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin As a small side note, Bach wrote it shortly after his first wife, Maria Barbara, died unexpectedly while he was away, and this tragedy shaped the Adagio’s tone, making it sound more like a prayer.

The only footage with Ginette Neveu, Paris 1946, playing Chausson's Poème. (3 years later, when she was 29, her plane crashed)

Kristīne Balanas, violin, and Margarita Balanas, cello, playing Vivaldi's Summer.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to @Odie 40HPW. Since @Richard Greaser of the @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 has encouraged him to share some of his music on Nostr, we can help with that too. The best is to quote Odie directly. "I work as a producer and singer in a vocal ensemble, and this is a recording of Våren by Edvard Grieg, arranged for 16 voices. Recorded at our latest concert in Stavanger Concert Hall. My ensemble is called Valen Vokalensemble (8 singers), and we did this concert in cooperation with Edvard Grieg Vokalensemble from Bergen (also 8 singers). In former years of my career, I also used to play keys in a band, I might dig up some history in a later note. After retiring from pop music in 2017, my main focus has been classical music and for the last five years, to build a professional vocal ensemble in my hometown."