J. S. Bach - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Chorus), from BWV 140 (Harnoncourt)
The opening chorus of one of Bach's most beloved cantatas. First performed November 25, 1731. This recording performed by Concentus musicus Wien with Tölzer Knabenchor, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Pictured is the bassoon notation for this piece, signed by the man himself, and E. G. Haussmann's portrait of Bach from 1748. Bach lived from 1685 to 1750.
Birch bark lur. Performed by Eilif Gundersen.
Illustration: Theodor Kittelsen - "Op under Fjeldet toner en Lur", 1900.
The title translates roughly as "Up in the Hills a Clarion Call Rings Out".
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1990. An "lokkelåt" is originally a cow calling tune (the same as "locklåt" or "kulning" in Swedish), though here played on an instrument (langeleik, a Norwegian sort of dulcimer).
Norwegian folk music / Norsk folkemusikk / Gjøvik / Nytt liv i gamle toner
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From "Return to Dresden" (1985), which follows a Canadian man who took part in the Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden, on February 13-15, 1945, returning to the city exactly 40 years later. The two other men in the first clip were English pilots whom he met there by happenstance during a memorial service.
Posted on the final day of the 78th anniversary of the event.
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Fiddler and singer Delma Lachney (1896-1949) of Marksville, Louisiana, accompanied by guitarist Blind Uncle Gaspard (1878-1937) from Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Recorded ca. 26 January 1929 in Chicago, Illinois.
Tags: folk traditional 78rpm
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A traditional song from Orkney and Shetland usually titled "The Grey Selkie of Sule Skerry" or "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry". Several Orcadian versions begin with the lines "In Norway land there lived a maid", obviously leading to the title Fisher went with here. Selkies are mythological creatures that can shapeshift between seal and human form by removing or putting on their seal skin. They feature in many tales passed down from the old days, especially ones of Celtic or Norse origin. Sule Skerry is a remote island north of Scotland and West of the Orkneys.
A synopsis of the story is as follows: a woman, nursing a baby, laments that she does not know the child's father or where he lives. A man rises up to tell her that he is the father, and that he is a selkie — a shapeshifter that takes the form of a man on the land and a seal in the sea — and that he lives on a remote rocky island called Sule Skerry. He gives her a purse full of gold, takes his son, and predicts that she will marry a gunner who will shoot both him and their son.
This version is from Archie Fisher's second album, "Orfeo", released in 1970. Fisher was born in 1939 and is still around.
Painting by Norwegian artist Hans Dahl (1849-1937), "Kvinne, mann og barn i oselver" / "Woman, man and child in rough weather".
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From "Burden of Dreams", a documentary about the making of Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" -- both released in 1982.
Most of this excerpt has been on YT since 2006, but this upload is in much better quality -- and hopefully it reaches some new viewers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvbxh2rLcdo