At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Schubert: Ständchen from “Schwanengsang”

“October is an account of the bleak autumnal potato harvest, set in a bare, featureless landscape. October was painted at the artist’s native village of Damvillers, in the Meuse Valley to the northeast of Paris. Here, inspired by the example of Millet and Courbet, Bastien-Lepage had planned to paint rural life as he knew it,…

Krystian Zimerman: 4 Impromptus D. 935 (Schubert)

“I’m ploughing on like a man possessed”Following a third breakdown in the height of summer, Van Gogh returned to painting once again in September. As the heat of the Provençal summer cooled and autumn arrived, the artist returned once again to olive trees, finding in their forms and foliage a subject that was unchanging and…

Diogo Rodrigues: Canarios (Sanz)

Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this performance in his post, Canarios: Sanz & Rodrigo. See More Claude Monet At Sunnyside Claude Monet at Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris List of Paintings by Claude Monet at wikiwand Works by Claude Monet at Museum Barberini Claude Monet at Museum…

Thomas and Brocal: Nocturne in B minor, No. 20 Op. (Chopin)

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Christopher Tin: Hope is the Thing With Feathers

“Said to be expressions of his innocence and shyness, little birds perching on tree branches is a favoured and recurrent subject matter in Lin Fengmian’s works. Sixteen birds sit atop of tree branches, consciously scattered throughout the painting in an organized manner: in similar size and shape, the leaves are of the same autumnal colour…

Elene Gamache at Roberts Gallery

“I return again, and always, to that magic word for me: Italy. It was Italy that inspired my flower bouquets and sparked my fascination with the elegant renaissance facades of the palazzos. It is the splendour of that countryside that I am recreating in my paintings today.” “Without actually abandoning my still-life format, I’ve incorporated…

Louis Armstrong: Jonah and the Whale

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Petrit Ceku: 6 Cello Suites BWV 1007 – 1012 (Bach)

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Ray Charles: Oh, Happy Day!

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Joseph Haydn: Symphony #1 D-Dur

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A Little Mozart, A Little Munnings

“Munnings frequently experimented with this theme of a huntsman manoeuvering through thick brush approaching a bank or ditch and this is typical of his style at this date. His own hunting experiences often inspired his vision and it is probable that this horse is ‘the brown mare’ whom Munnings describes in his memoirs as ‘a…

Autumn With Kolesnikov and Vivaldi

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Who Am I?

Best viewed At Sunnyside. WordPress Reader is misbehaving…again. The Story Sunnyside was born many years ago, the name of my fictional home for orphaned children and animals in a story for Mrs. Watson’s eighth grade writing class. A medical degree and six biologic homeschooled children later, Sunnyside became the name of my classical education website,…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Annunciation (c.1849)

“Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli (1445-1510) and Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Rossetti sought in this work a radical reinterpretation of the Annunciation. Traditionally the Virgin was depicted in studious contemplation, reading a missal at a prie-dieu; but here Rossetti shows her rising awkwardly from a low bed, as if disturbed…

Dame Laura Knight: The Nuremberg Trial

“Knight was appointed a ‘war correspondent’ for this commission and made a special BBC broadcast from Nuremberg. She gained special access to the broadcasting box just above the prisoners where she was able to make charcoal studies of the main protagonists amongst the lawyers and the accused. Her painting reproduces faithfully the courtroom scene and…

Paul Gauguin: Autumn in Brittany

“Fleeing what he felt was the overly civilized and decadent environment of Paris, Paul Gauguin lived periodically in the remote and rugged Brittany region of northwestern France. In works such as this, he sought to convey traditional village life, which he considered an antidote to the ills of modern society. Unlike the Impressionists, Gauguin did…

Rosa Díaz Cotán: Harp Concerto (Dittersdorf)

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Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat Fields With Reaper (1890)

“Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of Paris where he lived the last two months of his life. He painted many views of these fields, including this landscape with a reaper cutting the golden grain while the stacked sheaves recede toward a village…

Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife (1788)

“A landmark of European portraiture that asserts a modern, scientifically minded couple in fashionable but simple dress, this painting was excluded from the Salon of 1789 for fears it would further ignite revolutionary zeal. Technical analysis has revealed that a first iteration excluded the scientific instruments and would have been a far more conventional portrait…

Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25

“Dating from the period in which Léon de Smet was living in an artists’ commune in Saint-Martens-Latem, in his native Belgium, the present painting displays the influence of French developments in Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist thought on the artist’s work…Particularly pertinent to this canvas is the Impressionist fascination with shadow and half-shadow; their infinite nuances of…

Malcolm Guite: Unless a Grain of Wheat…

Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls into the Ground and Dies by Malcolm Guite Oh let me fall as grain to the good earth And die away from all dry separation, Die to my sole self, and find new birth Within that very death, a dark fruition, Deep in this crowded underground, to learn The…

Vivaldi: Concerti con molti strumenti (E. Galante and F. Biondi)

“In its final form, the painting is a private palimpsest of the various phases of Gauguin’s evolution as a painter, documenting—to paraphrase the title of the artist’s later Tahitian masterpiece—where he had come from (“d’où venons nous”), who he was (“que sommes nous”), and where he was going (“où allons nous”). “Tracing the trajectory of…

John William Waterhouse: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

“…the composition’s date of 1909 and its similarity to a number of Waterhouse’s compositions in following years marks it as the first in a series inspired by the story of Persephone—in which the innocent girl, picking flowers on the plain of Enna, is abducted by Pluto; in anguish, her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, curses…

Zhang Daqian: Autumn Mountains at Dawn

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Wigmore Soloists: Octet in F D803 (Schubert)

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Mozart: Sonata in A Minor K. 310, Mvt. 2

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Hauser and Campbell: Torna A Surriento

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Classic Hymns: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…

Anto Carte: l’Effort (1920)

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Sonnet: Healing Works, by Ana Daksina

Healing Works by Ana Daksina Has something very bad happened to you, Something that you can never now forget? Something which brings you sad each day into Wondering how unto the next you’ll get? There is a way, friend, to relieve the pain A way to bring to others benefit So you and they tranquility…