Kick Back (Music to do Computer Science to)
This is the time for lists. I have, in previous years, recommended books, drawn broadly from my reading in biography, history and, occasionally, fiction. This is more daring, certainly for me, and perhaps more personal, because music seems to me a more intimate medium. I have chosen classical pieces from my 'frequent plays', because they seem more 'shareable' (read marginally less embarrassing) than my eclectic taste in more 'popular' music. Besides, I am profserious. I have added links to the iTunes versions (my favoured performances) but also to YouTube versions (by various artists).
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 Bach (Busoni)
iTunes: Bach (Busoni) Piano Transcriptions, Kun-Woo Paik, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bach-busoni-piano-transcriptions/id14528997
YouTube: http://youtu.be/nnGbzrH5NWs
Cello Sonata #6 In A, Adagio & Allegro, Boccherini
iTunes: Johann Sebastian Bach et Boccherini, Pablo Casals & Blas Net, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/johann-sebastian-bach-et-boccherini/id381976441
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSX95yCLtSU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsc-pFI5gw
Die Zauberflöte, K.620, O, Isis und Osiris (Sarastro/Chor), Mozart
iTunes: Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, Otto Klemperer (Gottlob Frick), https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mozart-die-zauberflote/id696847830
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pznPP19LPY
Norma, Casta Diva, Bellini
iTunes: The Art of Renee Fleming, Renee Fleming, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-art-of-renee-fleming/id528595452
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4L5tcxFcA
String Quartet #14 In D Minor, D 810, "Death & The Maiden" - 2. Andante Con Moto, Schubert
iTunes: Schubert: Trout Quintet, Death & The Maiden, Amadeus Quartet and Emil Gilels, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/schubert-piano-quintet-trout/id15174253
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEsosojW3kE
Goldberg Variations for keyboard, BWV 988: Aria, Bach
iTunes: Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1955 Version), Glenn Gould, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bach-goldberg-variations-bwv/id594521223
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv94m_S3QDo
Litaney, Schubert
iTunes: Schubert: Oeuvres Pour Piano, Brigitte Engerer, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/schubert-oeuvres-pour-piano/id372170768
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Da4UWhD58
Barcarolle, Op. 65 No. 6, Alkan
iTunes: Alkan: Piano Works, Pacal Amoyel, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/alkan-piano-works/id605742040
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaE1Mg4y2U
Ave verum corpus KV 618, Mozart
iTunes: Mozart: Requiem / Ave verum corpus / Maurerische Trauermusik, Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor & Peter Neumann, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mozart-requiem-ave-verum-corpus/id690582512
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUDs8KJc_c
Semper Fidelis, Sousa
iTunes: Sousa: Marches, Band of the Grenadier Guards, https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sousa-marches/id14726212