I now have a new favorite classical piece: The Agnus Dei (fifth movement, I think) from Poulenc's 'Mass in G'.

It's a great example of serendipity. I was looking for a good recording of Rachmaninoff's 'Vespers' (or, more accurately translated, 'All-Night Vigil'), largely because I had just re-watched the scene in Supernatural where Castiel comes in ( Read more... )

The new season 5 trailer for Supernatural is out, and the song. I swear, I like to died. I think I blacked out from sheer pleasure the first couple times I watched it. The song is chilling, and the trailer is so well done. It meshes perfectly with the song, every beat of the way.

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That's the good. The bad? The song--cannot be found. ANYWHERE. AT ALL ( Read more... )

iTunes meme, ganked from Ankeel her loveliness: Open iTunes to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is.

Personal note: This is just on my iPod, because a) the rest of my music is on my hard drive, which crashed, and b) I don't keep it in my iTunes library anyways. ALSO: And I am always totally happy to ( Read more... )

So I was gonna post about something totally different, and then--an Eric Whitacre piece came up on shuffle! I remembered that I hadn't checked his awesome blog for ages, and went off to make up for lost time. Last time I'd checked it, he'd announced that he'd started taking commissions again (YES!), and was working on a piece called 'The Stolen ( Read more... )

Harry Potter's wunderful power of LURVE = Sailor Moon = HARRY POTTER IN A SAILOR SUIT.

Brain-Bleach 2000 with extra anti-sparkle-headache action yesthankyou. o_o

And in other news, I would like to announce that I am absolutely NOT going to start putting together a Twilight fanmix just to spite all the people doing them, because I hated rather ( Read more... )