Classical / Chamber Music / Dark Ambient


"Threnodies for the dark season"
This is the current week's new hour of music from Hearts of Space Radio Show. While all of this music is classical chamber music, there are pieces with vocal accompaniment, including one that features a choir. Very mellow, if dark. Tracklist & program notes included, along with the album covers. LOTS of different music here today, many artists.

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
Descending into the short days of the dark season, once again we seek music that portrays human emotions at their most vulnerable: music of pathos, loss and remembrance. These are some of our most powerful and deeply affecting feelings, and they require music that touches the depths of our souls.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a special program of sacred choral, vocal and instrumental music for the dark season, from longtime guest producer ELLEN HOLMES...called LAMENTO 2.

A lament is a cathartic song or poem expressing grief or mourning: a recognition of the sadness of mortality. Many of the oldest and most enduring poems in human history have been laments; they're found in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Hindu Vedas, and in ancient Near Eastern religious texts, including the Old Testament.

We'll feature selections extending across 500 years of western classical music, by JOSQUIN DES PREZ, CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, CARLO GESUALDO, DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE, ANTONIO VIVALDI, GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, LILY BOULANGER, RALPH LAURIDSEN, LISA GERRARD, STELLAMARA, LES NOUVELLES POLYPHONIES CORSES, and MAX RICHTER. Threnodies for the dark season : LAMENTO 2...on this transmission... of Hearts of Space.