Saturday Evening Concert

Welcome to the Weekend and your Saturday Evening Concert.  I have two very different Concerts to share with you tonight as we wrap up Ensemble Week.  We will begin with our tumblr concert where Jordi Savall is joined by his son Ferran and members of the Ensemble Hesperion XXI for a French HDTV special ‘Lachrimae Caravaggio’, Music from the time of Caravaggio.  It is an fascinating exploration of Medieval Music beautifully performed in this live HDTV presentation.  

Earlier in the week when I offered the definition of Ensemble, one of the alternate definitions included vocal music groups.  So what do you get when you take a pop singer from America, add 3 classically trained singers from Europe, then mix in a pop repertoire sung with operatic techneique?  You get 4 devastatingly handsome, golden voiced gentlemen known collectively as Il Divo.  Il Divo is listed in the Guinness Book of Records (2006) as the most successful international pop project ever.  There is not a 'boy band' in the world that can hold a candle to these guys on stage.  David, Carlos, Sabastien and Urs are mesmerizing on stage and their concerts engulf and sweep you into the heights of musical nirvana before gently setting you back down on earth.  Tonight's Concert was recorded in Barcelona in 2009 before a packed arena of enthusiastic fans.  As I listened this morning to preview the concert,  it was impossible to not become intimately involved with Il Divo as they share their lives and music with you.  Sit back, get ready to be truly and thoroughly entertained for the next two hours.  

If by chance you can tear yourselves away from the concert, you may enjoy the regular dick fest that is on display in this week's edition of Naked or Nearly So posted down below.  Then your Hottie of the Day!, 'Vicente Caliente', over on my tumblr will definitely add some 'espicio especial' to any fantasy dish you wish to conjure up.  Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with me, join me again on Monday for another week of Music,  Men & More!  Until next time as always, Enjoy!