Category Archives: The Coffee Table

A place for relaxation.

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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The Parting

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Michaela

The Parting A poem by Justme

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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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Teaching passion

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Michaela

Daniel Barenboim is teaching Lang Lang to play the Apassionata. It’s beautiful and intense. Thats what a warm teaching is all about – a connection between teacher and student, each receiving and giving at the same time. Somewhere he is … Continue reading →

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I am, O Anxious One

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Michaela

A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings and whitely fly in circles round your face. … Continue reading →