Today I have been to the English Theatre in Frankfurt again seeing Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde as a musical. As some of you may know I am not too much a fan of musicals. And again some of the […]
Ich war gestern im Konzert in der Stadtkirche in Bayreuth. Irgendwann habe ich mir schon die Frage gestellt, ob es sich lohnt fast 300 km (einfach) zu fahren, nur um anderthalb Stunden Weihnachtskonzert des Windsbacher Knabenchors zu hören. Die Antwort […]
Gestern war ich im alljährlichen Konzert des Dresdner Kreuzchores zum Volkstrauertag, dem Deutschen Requiem von Brahms, in der Kreuzkirche in Dresden. Ich liebe dieses Stück und habe es ja neulich erst im Musikverein in Wien gehört. Aber das ist einfach […]
I have just been to a concert and it was simply fantastic! I heard the Gershwin Piano Quartet in the Brahmssaal of Vienna Musikverein. For all who have never heard of them – I hadn’t until I read about them […]
Today I have been to a concert at Musikverein Vienna. They played Gershwin and Bernstein and our conductor has once been the assistant of Mr. Bernstein. And indeed the last piece which were dances from the West Side Story was […]
I did not mention so far, but yesterday I have been to a concert in the cathedral of Mainz. We heard Psalm 42 of Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Requiem of Mozart. The psalm was quite nice and the requiem was […]
Es mag überraschen, aber ich war vorhin im Konzerthaus und habe ein Konzert gehört. Zur Abwechslung einmal moderne Klassik von 1968: „Das Floß der Medusa“ von Hans Werner Henze. Interessant ist die wahre Geschichte die dort erzählt wird von der […]
I have just been to a concert at Musikverein Vienna: „Ein Deutsches Requiem“ of Brahms played by the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig and sung by the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna and Hannah Morrison and Michael Nagy as […]
Ich war vorhin mal wieder im Konzert im Musikverein. Trevor Pinnock dirigierte das Baseler Kammerorchester. Ich hatte ihn bisher noch nicht erlebt und wollte ihn einmal hören. Wie fast nicht anders zu erwarten war es ein tolles Konzert. Es startete […]
The opera yesterday was „Eugen Onegin“ from Tschaikowsky. A romantic russian piece sung in Russian. The music was very light and good to hear, production is nice, singers were good and the orchestra anyway. But the story of the opera […]
The concert on Friday was titled „A Jazz Symphonie“. I saw it at the Philharmonie Essen which is a beautiful concert hall in Essen that really fits into this steel production area. The concert was played by the philharmonic orchestra […]
I have been to a concert today, but only the first half of it, unfortunately, because I am not quite well. It was all about Purcell. The first half it were only pieces of Purcell played and sung very traditionally. […]
Who would have thought: today I have been to a concert in Vienna Konzerthaus again. At first I was like „oh, I am too tired for that, why did I buy this ticket“. But it turns out that on this […]
Today’s concert completes my concert marathon. I have been in the Konzerthaus and listened to Pygmalion playing Bach. That were 4 cantatas and the third Brandenburgisches Konzert. While the Brandenburgische Konzert was excellent 3 of the cantatas did not attract […]
The next concert today was Semele of Händel at the Musikverein (the most famous concert hall in Vienna). That was the first time I really enjoyed a piece of Händel! The orchestra was the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. […]
Today I have been at an event of Vienna Boys Choir and Werner Schneyder a once famous cabaret artist. So it was a reading and a mix of musical pieces from Mozart to Bernstein. Again I had to realize that […]
Today I have been to the Vienna Opera to watch and listen to the ballet: Giselle. I am not experienced enough to judge the whole piece. My main focus was on Scott McKenzie who had a solo here; it was […]
Yesterday I started a musical marathon. It started with an award presentation to Jens Scheuerbrandt. He is a young and brilliant pianist and between the speeches he showed a bit of his talent. I was very happy to hear the […]
Heute hat auch die Konzertsaison in Dresden begonnen. Zum Auftakt gab es den Paulus von Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Es war eine tolle Aufführung mit einem super Chor, tollen Solisten, die ich alle schon gehört habe und einer sehr guten Sächsischen Staatskapelle. […]
My second visit to one of Vienna’s music stages was today. I went to the Volksoper to see the Wiener Staatsballet. On were three pieces of Strawinsky, Petruschka, Movements to Strawinsky (a collection of his music) and „Der Feuervogel“. It […]
