A peaceful afternoon with Johanna Beisteiner performing Schubert's Ständchen. Have a great day!

Silent Night is the most recorded song, in more than 300 languages. Last year, through an ad from Erste Bank of Austria, the visual story of Joseph Mohr, a village priest in Oberndorf, Austria, and music teacher Franz Xaver Gruber, who composed and performed the song on Christmas Eve in 1818 during a time of hardship following the Napoleonic Wars, was depicted. The film highlights how the simple song spread globally, including performances before the Austrian Emperor in 1822, its broadcast during the first-ever radio entertainment in America in 1906, a moment of peace between German and English soldiers during World War I in 1914, and its transmission to the Skylab 4 space station in 1973.

255 years ago today, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the city of Bonn, Germany. Because the Symphony No. 9 premiered at the Theatre am Kärntnertor in Vienna, on May 7th 1824, as a small homage, I post the finale of this symphony with director Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonic of Vienna. I wish you all a beautiful day!

Today's goodbye and "wish I'd be there" moment is with Itzhak Perlman playing the third movement of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with The Philarmonia Orchestra of London and conducted by Lawrence Foster. (1978) 👏👏👏 And here is the YouTube link for the full concert.

For the Jazz lovers, an excerpt from John Coltrane Quartet's “My Favourite Things”, Comblain-La-Tour, 1965.

Good morning with Yuja Wang and Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2! ☕

Another Jazz moment: the John Coltrane Quartet playing "Impressions".

Wishing you a wonderful 3rd Advent Sunday with ”Es wird schon glei dumpa“ (It will soon be dark), an Austrian carol from 1884, performed by the Philharmonic of Vienna together with the Vienna Girls Choir.

A group of actors from Ludovica Rambelli Teatro of Naples, Italy, recreated on stage pictures of Caravaggio. The paintings in order: The Entombment of Christ Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy Crucifixion of Saint Peter The Beheading of St John the Baptist Judith Beheading Holofernes Flagellation of Christ The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew Annunciation Rest on the Flight into Egypt Narcissus, The Raising of Lazarus Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy Bacchus

Your infrequent moment of jazz is here with Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie. (1969)

Your infrequent moment of jazz is here with Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie. (1969)

Vienna State Opera from the Albertina Museum

Sometimes I think about making a new npub for jazz. Until then, I'll bother you here with occasional detours. Nina Simone, I Loves You Porgy, 1960

This morning, I took a detour from the usual path with "Je vous salue Marie" by Erga. Have a great day!

Tonight, I will say goodbye with the final part from Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, directed by Claudio Abbado, with Eteri Gvazava, Soprano, and Anna Larsson, Alto. So beautiful!

One of the first pieces of classical music that I remember from my childhood, Herbert von Karajan and a 17-year-old Evgeny Kissin performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. 1988, Salzburg, Austria

For this lunch break, I chose Arthur Rubinstein playing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22. This video is from 1975, when he was 88 years old, and while almost blind, this might have been one of his best performances. As a side note, he played this Concerto since 1904, when it was in front of Saint-Saëns. I added the YouTube link for the longer version.

I want to close the day with Yunchan Lim playing Chopin's Variations on “Là ci darem la mano”, Op. 2. And with this, I wish you all a beautiful evening!

My street is quiet right now, with dense fog, and Daniel Barenboim playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata feels just right. It still amazes me that it has over 200 years.

Lunch break with Narciso Yepes and Concierto de Aranjuez.