roger nichols and the small circle of friends

1. Don't Take Your Time
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Don't Go Breaking My Heart
4. I Can See Only You
5. Snow Queen
6. Love So Fine
7. Kinda Wasted Without You
8. Just Beyond Your Smile
9. I'll Be Back
10. Cocoanut Grove
11. Didn't Want To Have To Do It
12. Can I Go

Bonus Tracks
13. Our Day Will Come
14. Love Song, Love Song
15. Just Beyond Your Smile [Mono 45]
16. I'll Be Back [Mono 45]
17. Let's Ride
18. The Drifter
19. Trust
20. St. Bernie The Sno-Dog


Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Friends

treasure island — british art from holbein to hockney

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, c. 1540-42
Hans Holbein the Younger

Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, c. 1700
Sir Godfrey Kneller

Mr. and Mrs. Hill, 1750-51
Arthur Devis

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, 1848
John Martin

My First Sermon, 1863
Sir John Everett Millais

Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights, 1872
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer, 1901
John Singer Sargent

Lytton Strachey, 1914
Henry Lamb

Portrait of Nick Wilder, 1966
David Hockney


La isla del tesoro — Arte británico de Holbein a Hockney

Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Del 5 de octubre de 2012 al 20 de enero de 2013

when i was one-and-twenty

A. E. Housman, c. 1911
Photograph by Emil Otto


Como saben todos, el poeta era también profesor, y una de las máximas autoridades en la antigua literatura pagana. Me gusta recordar sobre él una historia que alude precisamente a ese doble carácter de erudito y poeta. Quizá sea una historia conocida, quizá sea una historia falsa; cuenta el inicio de un discurso de sobremesa que hizo en el Trinity de Cambridge. Quien la inventó o pergeñó tenía un soberbio sentido del estilo: «Este gran Colegio, de esta antigua Universidad, ha sido testigo de visiones extrañas. Ha visto a Wordsworth borracho y a Porson* sobrio. Y aquí estoy yo, mejor poeta que Porson y mejor erudito que Wordsworth, a mitad de camino entre lo uno y lo otro».


G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography

*Richard Porson (1759-1808), profesor de lenguas clásicas y escritor.


When I Was One-and-Twenty
Alfred Edward Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs aplenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.


Yo tenía veintiuno

Yo tenía veintiuno,
y así aquel sabio me habló:
«Coronas, libras, guineas,
ofrece, no el corazón;
da perlas y da rubíes,
pero gobierna tu amor».
A la edad de veintiuno,
no le hice caso mayor.

Yo tenía veintiuno,
y me dijo una vez más:
«El corazón de tu pecho
de balde no brindarás;
con mil suspiros se paga,
se trueca por gran pesar».
Tengo ahora veintidós;
lo que me dijo es verdad.


Traducción de niki

dreams fly away - a history of linda thompson

1. Lonely Hearts
2. Walking On A Wire 
3. I Live Not Where I Love
4. Sometimes It Happens 
5. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
6. Talking Like A Man 
7. Sisters
8. Shay Fan Yan Ley 
9. One Clear Moment
10. First Light 
11. Pavanne
12. Many Dreams Must Fly Away 
13. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
14. The Great Valerio 
15. Insult To Injury
16. The Poor Boy Is Taken Away 
17. Blackwaterside
18. Telling Me Lies 
19. I'm A Dreamer
20. Dimming Of The Day 


Dreams Fly Away - A History Of Linda Thompson

jeri southern: southern breeze

1. Down With Love
2. Crazy He Calls Me
3. Lazy Bones
4. Who Wants To Fall In Love
5. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
6. Ridin' High
7. He Reminds Me Of You
8. Porgy
9. Are These Really Mine
10. Isn't This A Lovely Day
11. Warm Kiss
12. I Like The Likes Of You


Jeri Southern: Southern Breeze

tordesillas y toro

Vista de Tordesillas: puente sobre el Duero, Casas del Tratado e Iglesia de San Antolín 

Patio del Monasterio de Santa Clara (Tordesillas), con la fachada del antiguo palacio mudéjar




Plaza Mayor de Tordesillas


 

La vega de Toro




Pórtico de la Majestad (Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor, Toro)




Monasterio de Sancti Spiritus (Toro)




Palacio de las Leyes (Toro)


Fotos de niki

chet baker quartet: jazz at ann arbor

1. Announcement
2. Line For Lyons
3. Lover Man
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Maid In Mexico
6. Stella By Starlight
7. My Old Flame
8. Headline
9. Russ Job

Bonus Tracks
10. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
11. My Little Suede Shoes
12. Line For Lyons
13. My Old Flame
14. Everything Happens To Me


Chet Baker Quartet: Jazz At Ann Arbor

1-9: Recorded at the Masonic Temple, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 9, 1954.
10-14: Recorded at The Tiffany Club, Los Angeles, August 10, 1954.

Chet Baker: trumpet
Russ Freeman: piano
Carson Smith: bass
Bob Neel: drums

the roundtable: spinning wheel

1. Eli's Comin'
2. Fantasia On A Theme By Lennon And McCartney (Michelle)
3. Saturday Gigue
4. Girl I Used To Know
5. Scarborough Fair
6. This Guy’s In Love With You
7. Where Do You Go
8. Spinning Wheel


The Roundtable: Spinning Wheel

bach - le clavier bien tempéré, premier livre, disque 2

1. Prélude nº13 en fa dièse majeur, BWV 858
2. Fugue nº13 en fa dièse majeur, BWV 858
3. Prélude nº14 en fa dièse mineur, BWV 859
4. Fugue nº14 en fa dièse mineur, BWV 859
5. Prélude nº15 en sol majeur, BWV 860
6. Fugue nº15 en sol majeur, BWV 860
7. Prélude nº16 en sol mineur, BWV 861
8. Fugue nº16 en sol mineur, BWV 861
9. Prélude nº17 en la bémol majeur, BWV 862
10. Fugue nº17 en la bémol majeur, BWV 862
11. Prélude nº18 en sol dièse mineur, BWV 863
12. Fugue nº18 en sol dièse mineur, BWV 863
13. Prélude nº19 en la majeur, BWV 864
14. Fugue nº19 en la majeur, BWV 864
15. Prélude nº20 en la mineur, BWV 865
16. Fugue nº20 en la mineur, BWV 865
17. Prélude nº21 en si bémol majeur, BWV 866
18. Fugue nº21 en si bémol majeur, BWV 866
19. Prélude nº22 en si bémol mineur, BWV 867
20. Fugue nº22 en si bémol mineur, BWV 867
21. Prélude nº23 en si majeur, BWV 868
22. Fugue nº23 en si majeur, BWV 868
23. Prélude nº24 en si mineur, BWV 869
24. Fugue nº24 en si mineur, BWV 869


Bach - Le Clavier Bien Temperé, Premier Livre, Disque 2

Pierre Hantaï, clavecin

weekend segoviano

Una terraza en la plaza de San Lorenzo




Las torres de San Esteban y de la Catedral desde las ruinas del claustro de la Hospedería (Monasterio del Parral)




Alcázar




Iglesia de la Vera Cruz




Casa-Museo de Antonio Machado




Debajo del Acueducto




Hembra de gamo en Riofrío


Fotos de niki

diana ross & the supremes: the definitive collection

1. Where Did Our Love Go
2. Baby Love
3. Come See About Me
4. Stop! In The Name Of Love
5. Back In My Arms Again
6. Nothing But Heartaches
7. I Hear A Symphony
8. My World Is Empty Without You
9. Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
10. You Can't Hurry Love
11. You Keep Me Hangin' On
12. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
13. The Happening
14. Reflections
15. Love Child
16. I'm Livin' In Shame
17. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me [with The Temptations]
18. Someday We'll Be Together


Diana Ross & The Supremes: The Definitive Collection

bach - le clavier bien tempéré, premier livre, disque 1

1. Prélude nº1 en do majeur, BWV 846
2. Fugue nº1 en do majeur, BWV 846
3. Prélude nº2 en do mineur, BWV 847
4. Fugue nº2 en do mineur, BWV 847
5. Prélude nº3 en do dièse majeur, BWV 848
6. Fugue nº3 en do dièse majeur, BWV 848
7. Prélude nº4 en do dièse mineur, BWV 849
8. Fugue nº4 en do dièse mineur, BWV 849
9. Prélude nº5 en ré majeur, BWV 850
10. Fugue nº5 en ré majeur, BWV 850
11. Prélude nº6 en ré mineur, BWV 851
12. Fugue nº6 en ré mineur, BWV 851
13. Prélude nº7 en mi bémol majeur, BWV 852
14. Fugue nº7 en mi bémol majeur, BWV 852
15. Prélude nº8 en mi bémol mineur, BWV 853
16. Fugue nº8 en ré dièse mineur, BWV 853
17. Prélude nº9 en mi majeur, BWV 854
18. Fugue nº9 en mi majeur, BWV 854
19. Prélude nº10 en mi mineur, BWV 855
20. Fugue nº10 en mi mineur, BWV 855
21. Prélude nº11 en fa majeur, BWV 856
22. Fugue nº11 en fa majeur, BWV 856
23. Prélude nº12 en fa mineur, BWV 857
24. Fugue nº12 en fa mineur, BWV 857


Bach - Le Clavier Bien Tempéré, Premier Livre, Disque 1

Pierre Hantaï, clavecin

jerry butler: the sweetest soul

1. He Will Break Your Heart
2. Thanks To You
3. Find Another Girl
4. When Trouble Calls
5. I'm A Telling You
6. I See A Fool
7. For Your Precious Love [The Impressions]
8. Sweet Was The Wine
9. Moon River
10. Aware Of Love
11. Make It Easy On Yourself
12. It's Too Late
13. You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
14. I'm The One (Who Loves You)
15. Where's The Girl
16. How Beautifully You Lie
17. Woman With Soul
18. Need To Belong
19. Give Me Your Love
20. I've Been Trying
21. Giving Up On Love
22. I Stand Accused
23. Good Times
24. Believe In Me
25. Just For You
26. Give It Up
27. For Your Precious Love


Jerry Butler: The Sweetest Soul

The Vee Jay Hits 1960-1966 and more...

the essential skeeter davis

1. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
2. Set Him Free
3. Am I That Easy To Forget
4. The One You Slip Around With
5. (I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too
6. No, Never
7. My Last Date (With You)
8. Optimistic
9. The End Of The World
10. Gonna Get Along Without You Now
11. Where I Ought To Be
12. I Can't Stay Mad At You
13. I'm Saving My Love
14. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
15. Mine Is A Lonely Life
16. Let Me Get Close To You
17. Fuel To The Flame
18. What Does It Take (To Keep A Man Like You Satisfied)
19. I'm A Lover (Not A Fighter)
20. Bus Fare To Kentucky


The Essential Skeeter Davis

liam clancy: irish troubadour

1. I'm A Freeborn Man
2. Ten And Nine
3. The Rocky Road To Dublin
4. Blackwater Side
5. The Convict Of Clonmel
6. All For Me Grog
7. Lang A-Growing
8. Hi For The Beggarman
9. Anach Cuain
10. The Nightingale
11. Galway Races
12. Patriot Game
13. Royal Canal
14. Buachaill On Eirne
15. The Water Is Wide
16. In Bodentown's Churchyard
17. Dirty Old Town
18. The Foggy Dew
19. The Sash My Father Wore
20. The Weavers
21. Downie Dens Of Yarrow
22. Navy Boots On
23. Home Boys Home


Liam Clancy: Irish Troubadour

william blake (1757-1827) — the visionary in british art

Satan in his Original Glory: 'Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee', c.1805




Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, c.1786




Elohim Creating Adam, 1795-c.1805




The House of Death, 1795-c.1805




The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (formerly called 'Hecate'), c.1795




David Delivered out of Many Waters, c.1805




The Body of Christ Borne to the Tomb, c.1799-1800




The Punishment of the Thieves, 1824-7


William Blake (1757-1827) — Visiones en el arte británico

Caixaforum Madrid
Del 4 de julio al 21 de octubre de 2012


Eternity
By William Blake

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.


Eternidad

Aquel que ata a sí mismo un gozo,
destruye la vida alada;
pero quien besa al gozo mientras éste vuela,
vive en el amanecer de la eternidad.


Traducción de niki




William Blake, 1807
Thomas Phillips

the bobby fuller four: never to be forgotten - the mustang years, discs 2 & 3

1. King Of The Wheels
2. KRLA Top Eliminator
3. Keep A Knockin'
4. The Phantom Dragster
5. The Lonely Dragster
6. She's My Girl
7. Love's Made A Fool Of You
8. Don't Ever Let Me Know
9. Cheat & Lie [Unreleased]
10. Jenny Lee [Unreleased]
11. My True Love
12. Baby My Heart [Unreleased]
13. The Magic Touch
14. I'm A Lucky Guy [Unreleased]
15. The Things You Do [The Randy Fuller Four]
16. Now She's Gone [The Randy Fuller Four]
17. Angel Eyes [Unreleased-Backing Track]
18. A New Shade Of Blue [Unreleased Alternate Take]
19. Only When I Dream [Mono LP Version]
20. It's Love, Come What May [Unreleased Alternate Take]
21. I Fought The Law [Single Version]
22. Never To Be Forgotten [KRLA LP Stereo Alternate]


The Bobby Fuller Four: Never To Be Forgotten - The Mustang Years, Disc 2





1. I Fought The Law
2. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
3. A New Shade Of Blue
4. Let Her Dance
5. C.C. Rider
6. Anytime At All
7. My Babe / Keep A Knockin'/ Long Tall Sally
8. Vamp Introduction
9. California Sun
10. Do You Wanna Dance
11. Wooly Bully
12. Gloria
13. Oh, Boy!
14. Carol
15. Thunder Reef
16. High Heel Sneakers
17. Slow Down
18. Think It Over
19. Money / Shakedown


The Bobby Fuller Four: Never To Be Forgotten - The Mustang Years, Disc 3, Celebrity Night At PJ's

la belle voilée

1. La belle voilée duchesse de la valliere allemande de Mr. V. Gallot
2. La tonnerre courante de Gallot Vieux
3. La comminge, Sarabande de Gallot le Vieux
4. Folies d'Espagne
5. Allemande du Vieux Gallot [Tombeau du Mareschal de Turenne]
6. La Coquette de Gallot
7. La Nopce de Gallot
8. La Comete, Chaconne de V. Gallot
9. Chaconne du vieux Gaultier
10. Tombeau de Mr. Le Prince de Condé
11. Courante de Mr. Gallot, Le Vieux
12. La Tontinne courante du Vieux Gallot
13. Le petit seraille chaconne de Gallot le V.
14. Dialogue de Gallot
15. Prelude
16. L'Amant malheureux de Gallot
17. Courante la Cigogne
18. Sarabande la piece de huict heurs
19. Canarie les Castagnettes
20. Allemande de Launay
21. Chaconne, ou Cascades de Mr. de Launay


La Belle Voilée

17th Century French Lute Music by Jacques Gallot and others


Catherine Liddell, lute

two poems of the masters

Poems of the Masters
China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
Translated by Red Pine
Copper Canyon Press, 2003


Thoughts on a Quiet Night
Li Pai

Before my bed the light is so bright
it looks like a layer of frost
lifting my head I gaze at the moon
lying back down I think of home

[Ranked with Tu Fu as one of China’s two greatest poets, Li Pai left behind over one thousand poems. This is one of his most famous, and critics sigh at the effortlessness of his technique and his ability to transport the reader not only to a place but also to a state of mind. When the Chinese see the moon, it reminds them that friends and family members living elsewhere are looking at the same moon.]


In Reply
The Ancient Recluse

Somehow I ended up beneath pines
sleeping in comfort on boulders
there aren’t any calendars in the mountains
winter ends but who counts the years

[Nothing is known of the author of this poem, other than he lived in the Chungnan Mountains south of Ch’ang-an and called himself T’ai-shang ying-che (The Ancient Recluse). Here, he replies to someone who has asked him why and how long he had been living there.]


English translation and notes by Red Pine


Versión castellana de niki:


Pensamientos en una noche serena
Li Pai

Ante mi lecho la luz es tan brillante
que parece como una capa de escarcha
levanto la cabeza para mirar a la luna
me acuesto y pienso en el hogar

[Li Pai, considerado junto a Tu Fu como uno de los dos mayores poetas chinos, dejó más de mil poemas. Éste es particularmente célebre, y los críticos suspiran por la facilidad de la técnica del poeta y su destreza para transportar al lector tanto a un lugar como a un estado de ánimo. Cuando los chinos contemplan la luna, se acuerdan de que los amigos y familiares que se encuentran lejos están observando también esa misma luna.]


En respuesta
El Anciano Ermitaño

De algún modo acabé bajo los pinos
durmiendo a gusto sobre piedras
no hay calendarios en las montañas
el invierno da fin pero quién cuenta los años

[Nada se sabe del autor de este poema, excepto que vivió en los montes de Chungnan, al sur de Ch’ang-an, y se hacía llamar T’ai-shang ying-che (El Anciano Ermitaño). En estos versos replica a uno que le preguntó por qué y desde cuándo vivía allí.]