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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday the concert season of the Wiener Konzerthaus started. It was the first concert I visited in Vienna since I work here. And the opening was exceptional: The Wiener Philharmoniker played the 6. symphony of Mahler. I had not yet […]
Ich habe ja schon ein Foto vom Konzert am Samstag im neu eröffneten Kulturpalast Dresden gepostet: „Kaiser im Palast“. Zunächst einmal zum Kulturpalast selbst: der ist einfach klasse geworden! Die denkmalgeschützte Außenfassade ist vollständig erhalten und zeigt noch tolle sozialistische […]
I went to the opera today: Pelléas et Mélisande of Debussy. Musicalwise it was different than other operas, as the music was not directly linked to the vocals and was intended to express the mood of the scene (at least […]
