The Ring cycle has started! 🙂 4 nights of more wunderbar music, directed and performed by possibly the best around. The conflict between power or love, which cannot co-exist. Love between siblings, between father and daughter.. and the quest and search for power. Such genius in his writing, that he…
Tannhäuser
0It’s now 3:ooam, and I’ve just finished listening to Tannhäuser. The music, the orchestra, the singers… Marvelous orchestration, pitch-perfect singers, with the orchestra accompaniment that’s so sensitive, this must surely be one of the highest-levels of performing: doing such a tiring programme (stretches as long as 5 hours or more)…
2007 Bayreuther Festspiele
0The 2007 Bayreuther Festspiele is here, and everyone’s blogging about it! It opened yesterday with Die Meistersinger, directed by 29-year old Katharina Wagner, great-grand-daughter of Richard Wagner. Here’s rest of the programme for the opening week:26 Jul: Tannhäuser27 Jul: Das Rheingold28 Jul: Die WalkĂĽre30 Jul: Siegfried01 Aug: Götterdämmerung02 Aug: Parsifal…
Fritz Kreisler – Praeludium and Allegro
0I remember…Being thrown this piece when I was in secondary three.All those DOUBLE (and triple)-STOPS and crazy techniques I had to learn.Faster, Faster!!! Don’t use so much bow!Playing solo with the TKGS string orchestra.Practicing like crazy for my MEP exam.Practicing too hard before the exam and not applying rosin to…
Astor Piazzolla – Cafe 1930
0Went for a jog this evening, running my usual route to the Bedok Jetty, and somehow Piazzolla’s Cafe 1930 from his Historie du Tango just started playing in my head as I was sitting at the jetty. Perhaps its the effect of studying the piece recently? Or maybe it was…
seven dollars and ninety five cents.
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“Hey look, I think that price suits him!!” five seconds later… “Hmm. Nahh, I think it’s still too expensive.” said LY.
Liebestraum no. 3 – Franz Liszt
0Franz Liszt’s Liebestraum no. 3 found its way into my repertoire late last month, and it has been a more turbulent journey than ever. Liszt attached a poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath to it: O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst!O lieb, so lang du lieben magst!Die Stunde kommt, die Stunde…