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#YourMusicOfTheDay is from Aida, Act II, Amonasro (sung by the great bass Sherill Milnes) in what I have always suspected is a kind of fictionalization of Caracticus’s apologia in Rome. I post it for Jeremy Corbyn and all who believe war is the worst fate
I will leave to @musicologyman the question of whether my assumption about Amonasro and Caracticus is correct or not.
Here is the libretto, including a translation:
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If you're going through the motions with a seething rage coursing through your veins, #YourMusicOfTheDay is this particular performance of "furie terribili!" from one of my favorite Handel operas, the crazy-ass "Rinaldo." Katherine Watson is all of us.
It will literally take you 3 minutes and 24 seconds, and I promise it will make you feel good.
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#YourMusicOfTheDay is the Brahms Horn Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 40, the greatest performance of which I know is this one from the Marlboro Festival with Rudolf Serkin, Myron Bloom, and Michael Tree:
Movement II:
Movement III:
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