A few years ago I was lucky to be invited by White Label for EMI (as was) to write the liner notes for a re-release of Willi Boskovsky's...
Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
DJ Johann
I'm currently teaching the History of the Waltz at City Lit . It's a speedy five-week course that began by looking at the waltz'...
Der Lenz ist da!
How glorious that there are two words for spring in German. There is the more familiar 'die Frühling' and then the literary 'der...
Hallucinations of the Real
Jem Cohen's Museum Hours is a quiet film. At times it's almost silent. The 'hours' to which its title refers – as well as t...
Indigenous Music
I've been writing about Die Fledermaus , which is a work I love, but which I've never heard performed well in the theatre outside Vi...
A Message for the New Year
Shortly before the Christmas break, Mike Breneis, the CEO of Vienna-based record label col legno wrote the following: The thing with record...
Something of a Fairy Tale
Waddesdon Manor has always been something of a fairy tale. It was here, in the middle of Aylesbury Vale, that the Rothschilds built a Loire-...
An Obvious Schemer
Here's Joseph Marx in 1963, a year before he died, in his apartment on Traungasse in Vienna. One visitor to the blog this week said of ...
The Best of 2013
2013 has certainly been a busy year. With Verdi , Wagner and Britten vying for our attention, we might feel a little weary as we approach ...
Auf der Alm(a)
Alma: what does it mean? The soul. It may also make you think of 'Alm', the German word for an alpine pasture or hut. And, of course...
Live in the Sofiensaal
The good news is that the Sofiensäle in Vienna has not be allowed to rot to the ground. The bad news is that, like many recent development ...
Freuet Euch des Lebens
Certain pieces of music evoke a building... and vice versa. Sitting in the Goldener Saal of the Musikverein last weekend, listening to Fabio...
Wien at Waddesdon
Waddesdon Manor is a fanciful place. Designed by Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur as Loire château in the middle of the Aylesbury Vale, it was ...
Sleeping Beauty
It's like the set for Der Rosenkavalier , though for a number of years only Austrian financially-minded civil servants have been able to...
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Vienna
The First Floor
As any flâneur will tell you, keeping your eyes at street level is a big mistake. Walking through Vienna's Innere Stadt today I was impr...
Trees, Walls, Vienna
The Brodsky Quartet is going on a journey this Thursday evening at Kings Place . Journeys are a familiar trope at Lieder recitals: less so s...
Transgressive Relations in the Archive
Scribe has just issued a novel from the first two decades of the 20th century. This would, in the case of most books, be an ordinary act. B...
Live Brahms from the Gewandhaus
The Gewandhausorchester has gone all Brahmsian this Autumn . As well as the release of its new recording on Decca of the Symphonies and vari...
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