Category Archives: Music & Movies

Sound and Light

I am lost to the world

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Michaela

During the summers of 1901 and 1902, Gustav Mahler set to music five poems by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Rückert. Mahler identified strongly with the poem, saying that it expressed his very self.

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Immortal Beloved

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Michaela

When he lodged in Heiligenstadt, during the summer of 1802, Beethoven did not only have to come to terms with losing his hearing and related to this, his career as a highly sought after conductor – he also lost the … Continue reading →

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Of Agony and Surrender

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Michaela

The Heiligenstadt Testament When Beethoven was 26 years old  he was already a very successful composer and piano virtuoso.  At this time he began to suffer from buzzing noises and other sounds in his ears, and two years later deafness broke out. In 1802 … Continue reading →

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The Old and the New Testament

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Michaela

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier is considered the ‘Old Testament’ of the pianist as opposed to the ‘New Testament’ – the 32 piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. The Well-Tempered Clavier is characterized by a technical and compositional mastery which … Continue reading →

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All good things..

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Michaela

…come by three. The third composition of the summer of 1803 is the “Triple Concerto”. Beethoven may very well have “heard” it, walking through these vinyards… Beethoven’s Triple Concerto by Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma ( Part 2 )

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Late summer

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Michaela

Beethoven wrote another piece in the summer of 1803, while he lodged in the “Eroica House”, only a few blocks from where I live.

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True Love

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Michaela

Today I thought of a movie I saw a while ago. “Bright Star” by Jane Campion. It is the tale of the English poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, his fiancé and muse, forever antagonised by Charles Brown, Keat’s friend … Continue reading →

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Sleeping Beauty

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Michaela

One afternoon I opened the entrance door of a rather dilapidated looking building, a few blocks down the road from where I live. I entered into an enchanted courtyard.

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Resonance

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Michaela

Feel the music The Pastorale brought into being by Daniel Barenboim Beethoven, Sonata no.15, op.28 (Pastorale)

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An act of love

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Michaela

Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A – 2nd movement Since the cello was married to the piano the upholder of moral standards may not have watched so closely…

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