The holiest of the church seasons has really sneaked up on me this year. It doesn’t help that it snowed another three inches earlier this week, making it feel extremely unlike April. Today, though, with the office quiet, I simply started taking this Random 10 in midstream, and was delighted to find a number of selections from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion—topical, what? There will be repeat artists, because I left it on Shuffle by Album.
- Tears for Fears, “Year of the Knife” (The Seeds of Love)
- The States, “Parade” (Multiply Not Divide)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler, Vienna Philharmonic (J.S. Bach, composer), “Blute Nur, Du Liebes Herz!” (Matthäus-Passion)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler, Vienna Philharmonic (J.S. Bach, composer), “Ach, Nun Ist Mein Jesus Hin!/Mit Chor: Wo Ist Denn Dein Freund Hingegangen?” (Matthäus-Passion)
- The Tallis Scholars (Manuel Cardoso, composer), “Magnificat (Secundi Toni 5vv)” (Cardoso: Requiem)
- The Reindeer Section, “The Day We All Died” (Y’All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear?)
- Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Touré, “Gomni” (Talking Timbuktu)
- Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Touré, “Amandrai” (Talking Timbuktu)
- Lou Reed, “Lisa Says” (Between Thought and Expression)
- Lou Reed, “Rock and Roll Heart” (Between Thought and Expression)