Here is Anja Harteros singing Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade.” This interpretation sounds unusually (and not unpleasantly) spacious to me, probably because the version of this song that I first absorbed was much more of an “anguished Gretchen! anguished!” sort of vibe.
(I don’t know if the same ads appear when a video is embedded, but when I watched this on YouTube, the ads along the bottom were all “More dating sites! More men!” which is probably the last thing poor Gretchen wants.)
I woke up with this song in my head this morning! Probably because I listened to Miah Persson’s recital again last night. It’s a Very Harteros Friday.
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I tried to listen to Persson’s recital last night, but I couldn’t get it to play – really frustrating. I’ll have to try again.
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You’ve got mail!
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I do indeed – thanks 🙂
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I got “Recommended: Download the latest Windows 7 drivers”. Not sure that will solve her problem either.
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But if it did …. best software commercial EVER.
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Indeed! But she’d still do well to be wary, as there was that (short-lived) Microsoft ad several years ago with the tagline “Where do you want to go today?” and the Confutatis of the Mozart Requiem for the sdtk.
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Context 1; Microsoft 0.
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