Friday, February 29, 2008

The Wonderful World Of Whatevers

I have a musical radar system that will make me sit up and take notice whenever something special plays on my radio, as to-day when the station played a beautiful piece, sung by a counter tenor and accompanied by harp and lute.
I waited and this time they did tell who the artist was ( many times they will announce before and not after ) but the trouble is that the way a name is perceived in Spanish is somewhat different from ours, so I strained mightily to understand the name and came up with
Andra Skol.
Well, thought I, let me check the web. How many counter tenors are there.
And I found him easily enough, only he was named Andreas Scholl, but close enough.
The music was a little more difficult as the title was given in Spanish as El Povre Vagabundo.
So I went through all of his recordings, one by one, and nothing seemed to match, and most certainly not in Spanish until, the last entry, a song cycle with a song named Wayfaring Stranger.
And with a harp and lute.
So this must be it.
I think,
but of course I will never be sure till I hear the record which I will not, since it is from the States and import duties on DVDs an CDs are offputting high.
But I looked at the clock and somehow I had spent a wonderful couple of hours searching the web for musical whatevers.
Time well spent.

1 comment:

Albin said...

With a little help from Youtube.
Look this up:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=McaxRcaCaXk
It'll do the trick.