Still staying at films... the main aim of this blog was always to show something new and something which takes real effect on us, an effect which can't be described, to know it - you have to live it. That's the most fantastic thing in music, that incomprehensibleness.
One of my favourite films is Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, based on the novel Solaris written by the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem in 1961. I both like the novel and the film, they are both beautiful. They say it's science-fiction, and yes, but just because that sort of environment (another planet, space base). The real topics are human emotions and thoughts. The film is a milestone in film art, and with the book it tells me a lot of things about this world, and a lot of thoughts which - as I mentioned it - can't be described. About the future, the smallness of mankind and the huge aimless which is floating around us and which we cannot understand, just always suffer from it.
The main music theme of this film is BWV 639 Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ by Johann Sebastian Bach. BWV is a categorization of all the pieces by Bach (BWV: Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis). I have a strange feeling about this music. Sometimes I feel, that a song is both about hope and hopeless. That's irreal, but maybe possible - as I said some time ago, music can contain everything at the same time.
Performance 1 (organ, Aarnoud de Groen):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnrjQK2Z8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnrjQK2Z8Y
Performance 2 (piano, Horowitz):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMlgyCb6vfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMlgyCb6vfg
Performance 3 (cello, Maurice Gendron):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN31QRqgIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN31QRqgIk
this is an interesting blog. I like how you think about the world around you.
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