Jon Hopkins' musical version of great excerpt of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes' famous novel.
"'Life as it is.' I have lived for over forty years and I've seen 'life as it is'. Pain. Misery. Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature — moans from bundles of filth in the street. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them at the last moment. These were men who saw 'life as it is,' but they died despairing. No glory. No bray of last words. Only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning, 'Why?' I do not think they were asking why they were dying, but why they had ever lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all — to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"
The song is featured on the album 'Opalescent' http://www.last.fm/music/Jon+Hopkins/Opalescent

Jon Hopkins - Private Universe

Extrait de "la personnalité politique de Nikolaus Harnoncourt", chronique d'Antoine Pecqueur, diffusée sur France Musique (07/03/2016). La version complète est disponible par ici http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/culture-eco/2015-2016/la-personnalite-politique-de-nikolaus-harnoncourt-03-07-2016-07-34.

Simon Souris