Gustav Leonhardt -foto Wikipedia by Wikifalcon
Gustav Leonhardt , the highly renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and Bach scholar has died at home at the age of 83. He was during his life most known for his performances of the Leipzig master JS Bach whom he revered above all other composers. In fact we agreed that he was the greatest [...] Continue Reading…
Two times a year Berlin turns itself into THE big international fashion capital location – and today is one of those times – the first for 2012. It is called simply enough ‘Berlin Fashion Week,’ where designers, textile manufacturers, fashion groupies, buyers & sellers, and other fashion-trade experts and media of all sorts interact.
It will also present a perfect opportunity for local [...] Continue Reading…
Georgy Gromov
Plays the Piano music of Ludwig van Beethovens
The Sonata for Cello and Piano number II
Cellist Nikolai Solonovich - First violinist of the ’Moscow Soloists’
and Pianist Georgy Gromov
Dear Friends of the salon concerts, I would like to invite for the next week to an extraordinary concert this coming Thursday January the 19th at 2030 hrs – Beethoven Live in [...] Continue Reading…
Epitaph 1919 – by Bertolt Brecht
Red Rosa has also now disappeared
Where she lies is unknown
Because she told the truth to the poor
The rich have hunted her out of the world.
Epitaph for Karl Liebknecht – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies
Karl Liebknecht
The fighter against war
When he was struck down
Our city still continued to stand.
Epitaph for Rosa Luxemburg – by Bertolt Brecht
Here lies buried
Rosa Luxemburg
A Jewess [...] Continue Reading…
As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO! You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…
Frederick the Great by Anton Graff – from Wikipedia
Frederik the Great’, aka Friedrich der Große is justifiably almost synonymous with Berlin – he created his great palace with the baroque gardens ‘Sanssouci’ [no worries!] in Potsdam just outside Berlin.
This year 2012 will the 300th anniversary of his birth – his’ Jubiläumsjahr’- and there will be great celebrations in Berlin but especially in the [...] Continue Reading…
President Wulff -foto Wikipedia -source CFK_y_Christian_Wulff.jpg The influential and respected German newspaper, the Süddeutschen Zeitung has had it on the front page all week.
The heavy burden of the credit and media scandal on German President Christian Wulff is compelling and simply will not go away -efforts to defuse the scandal have not succeeded.
And while there have been calls from the [...] Continue Reading…
About one month ago the above picture was taken in Cannes France at the November Meeting of the G20 and while everyone seems happy on the photo – it seems not much has changed since then.
However the German Chancellor Angela Merkel never lets any grass grow under her feet and one may like or dislike her policies – one cannot deny her [...] Continue Reading…
German low-cost carrier Air Berlin has been thrown a financial life-line in the form of a 30% outright purchase of its shares plus a debt-financing agreement from the Abu Dhabi state-controlled airline Etihad Airways – as was reported by this blog last month.
In the announced ‘strategic partnership’ Air Berlin will enter into a code-sharing agreement with Etihad Airways that will [...] Continue Reading…
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’
Piano evening with Michio Nishihara Toro
Schubert Impromptu Des D 899
Chopin Polonaise cis moll nr 1
Chopin Polonaise Nr 5 fis moll Op. 44
Beethoven Sonata “Appassionata”
Debussy L Isle Joyeuse
Debussy Reverie
Albeniz El Albaicin
Villa-Lobos Lenda do Caboclo
Liszt Soneto de Petrarca Nr 104
Liszt Mephisto Valse
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For an OTA-Berlin Mini-Composer biography of Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’ - http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/10/ota-berlin-constituency-blog-mini-composer-bios-spanish-composers-issac-albeniz/
Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori concerts -I [...] Continue Reading…
So after deciding to remain in Berlin, not too long ago, I decided that I have been really lacking in the whole German language aspect of my existence in this city. And by lacking, I meant that I absolutely lacked anything, even the absolute basics overall…
So I decided to enroll in some sort of German classes or [...] Continue Reading…
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