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Originally Posted by Engine
Oh my god, this is the best music I've heard in quite a while. If you ever go on a doomed cruise, let me know and I'll come with and bring 10 gallons of fresh water as my luggage so that we can listen to this for as long as possible as we gradually die on that uncharted desert island.
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It is great, isn't it!
When I chart my doomed cruise in 60 years, I will definitely let you know. Once we're on the island, if we don't end up in a bare-handed fight for your 10 gallons of fresh water and instead share it equitably, drinking only 1 quart per day (the minimum needed to survive, I read) will give us each...(calculate, calculate)...20 glorious days to live and enjoy Corelli's "La Folia" before the water runs out!!
Then we will be left with 10 more days to spend sprawled on our backs in the sand under the warm sun, and the moon and stars by night, as we drift off into parched unconsciousness to the strains of that lovely music. Not a bad way to go, all things considered.
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Telemann - Trio Sonata in A Minor -- Performed by Amarillis
with Recorder, Baroque Violin, viola da gamba, and harpsicord
I posted an excerpt earlier, but here is the whole of this very pleasant and engaging piece that incorporates the charming toots and whistles of the recorder. I especially like hearing the vigorous conversations between recorder and violin in the fourth movement: