I forgot to mention that on Saturday I have been in theatre. I watched the Christmas story – the actual Christmas story compiled from the 4 Gospels. It is an off theatre in Frankfurt that plays in an old factory […]
Today I have completed my little concert marathon with the Christmas Oratory parts 1-3 of Bach in the Vienna Konzerthaus. It was played by Wiener Symphoniker. I had a perfect seat and was very happy. The musicians were wonderful. The […]
Heute war ich in Mahler 8 oder auch „Symphonie der Tausend“. Seit einem guten Jahr möchte ich die Symphonie schon live hören und nun endlich hat es geklappt im Musikverein mit dem Tonkünstler Orchester. Ich hatte eine Karte in der […]
Yesterday evening the Ring ended with „Brünhilde“. It consisted of the third act of Walküre and a lot of Götterdämmerung. Contentwise maybe the weakest part but of course not musicalwise. The singers were again very good and the orchestra as […]
Today we heard the second part of the Ring Trilogy, Siegfried. It consisted of large parts of the first Act of Walküre and obviously a lot of Siegfried. They straightened it a bit but it was nevertheless nearly 4 hours […]
I started a little concert marathon again. Today I heard the first part of the Ring Trilogy (!) at the Theater an der Wien, one of the smaller opera houses in Vienna (they have in total 4). The Ring Trilogy […]
Ich war gerade im Brahmssaal des Musikvereins im Konzert: im Rahmen des Abonnements „Rising Stars“ gab es heute ein Violinkonzert mit Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Der 22jährige spielt ausgesprochen virtuos, für meinen Geschmack ein bisschen zu dramatisch und dadurch an manchen Stellen […]
Yesterday and the day before yesterday I have been to the Christmas concert of Kreuzchor (Dresden Boys Choir). Yes, the same concert twice 🙂 It was a wonderful concert with some amazing pieces. My favourite was definitely „Lasst uns Lauschen“ […]
Today I have been to the Christmas concert of Vienna boys choir in their own concert hall. This time I heard the Mozart choir (Vienna boys choir consists of four separate choirs each named after a famous composer). But again […]
Today I have been to the opera. „Elektra“ by Richard Strauss has been played at the Wiener Staatsoper. I had a wonderful seat in the front row of one of the balconies right up the stalls. My neighbors was a […]
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 […]
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