The good news is that it did not rain!
While many people looked up at various times thinking that they heard some nearing thunder – it was nothing more than aircraft taking off into some low-lying cloud cover at Tegel airport.
TheWaldbühne, Berlin or the out-door forest stage; in is one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe.
It lies at the western end [...] Continue Reading…
‘Seefestspiele Berlin’ it is called.
On an outdoor stage, right next to the waterside of the famous Berliner Wannsee Lake, Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE will be performed starting this evening August 11th with intermittant productions up until the 28th. http://www.seefestspiele-berlin.de/
The whole set will be produced on a pyramide-shaped structure as stage, and this will sit right-on the waterfront.
Katharina Thalbach is in overall command [...] Continue Reading…
Liebe Freunde des Liedgutes,
In der kommenden Woche wird es kein Konzert im Piano Salon geben, dafür aber einen ganz wunderbaren Liedzyklus in der darauf folgenden. Am Donnerstag, dem 28.07. um 20.30 Uhr werden die schöne Sopranistin Dana Marbach, der Bassbariton Assaf Levitin und der Pianist Dan Deutsch eines der bestbesuchten Konzerte unserer kurzen Salongeschichte wiederholen mit dem Liederzyklus “Das [...] Continue Reading…
Liebe Freunde der Salonabende,
Ich darf herzlich zu zwei Konzerten in der kommenden Woche einladen: am Donnerstag, dem 23.06. um 20.30h wird die vielerort gerühmte usbekische Pianistin Barno Haknazarova, ihren ersten Soloabend im Piano Salon geben. Und das mit einem wunderbaren Programm eines großen Klavierabends, der alle Facetten des Klavieres zzu zeigen vermag und von Beethoven über Rachmaninoff bis [...] Continue Reading…
Johann Sebastian Bach was familiar with the world around him and this certainly applied to the musical world. He, more than most of his musical European contemporaries, kept abreast with the ‘new’ and ‘what was for sale’ in the store-front of European music literature.
Music relating to Bach’s Italian masters, those he greatly admired, ranges from the music of the 16th and [...] Continue Reading…
Two of the world’s great classical musical personalities – Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez – known usually as conductor and composer but in this case as pianist and conductor respectively – came together with the Staatskapelle Berlin -the orchestra of the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden this week to perform a concert of Wagner and Liszt.
Mondays Berlin concert was [...] Continue Reading…
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Program is -
Richard Wagner “Eine Faust-Ouvertüre”
Franz Liszt Piano Concerto Nr. 2 A-Dur
intermission
Richard Wagner “Siegfried-Idyll”
Franz Liszt Piano Concerto [...] Continue Reading…
Alban Berg’s opera ‘Wozzeck’, had its world premiere in Berlin, at what at that time was known as the ‘Berlin State Opera’ on 14 December 1925.
It caused a veritable scandal before during and after its performance– both because of its atonality and its modern and radical politcal story line. [ It was later banned in the 3rd Reich as so-called 'decandent-art' - this is sort of [...] Continue Reading…
Klassische Musik Berlin-Besucher – ob Oper, Klavier, Orchester oder anderen - bleiben oft bei …… ”OTA-Berlin – die intelligente Apartment Alternative zum Hotels in Berlin.
Liebe Freunde de Klavierabende,
ich darf zu einem programmatisch herausragenden Klavierabend in der kommenden Woche einladen:
Am kommenden Donnerstag, dem 7.4. um 20.30 h wird die belgische Pianistin Michele Gurdal einen Klavierabend geben, der zwei Herzstücken der romantischen Klaviermusik gewidmet ist, den [...] Continue Reading…
Many visitors to Berlin – who come to listen to the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, stay at OTA-Berlin ……the intelligent Apartment Alternative to Hotels in Berlin – with affordable serviced apartments and Berlin accomodation in the districts of Berlin Mitte / Prenzlauer Berg – areas with their own rich cultural life full of classical music – and also close to the Philharmonie, the [...] Continue Reading…
Liebe Freunde der Winterreise,
wie gehabt die Wegbeschreibung:
http://tinyurl.com/23jjn5k oder: http://preview.tinyurl.com/23jjn5k
Für den kommenden Donnerstag, den 03.02. um 20.30 Uhr darf ich zu einem der Höhepunkte der kleinen Konzertserie einladen. Mögen auch Liederabende gemeinhin etwas wenig Popularität genießen, das sehr zu Unrecht, so ist dies bei Schuberts Winterreise gänzlich anders, gehört dieses Programm doch zum Tiefsinnigsten und gleichzeitig Bekanntesten aus dem Repertoire der Romantik überhaupt [...] Continue Reading…
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