For your morning coffee, a calming trumpet and orchestra to start the day smoothly with Lucienne Renaudin-Vary and Charlie Chaplin's "Swing High, Little Girl".
Have a great day!
Performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and conducted by Sascha Goetzel.
Tonight I say goodbye a bit more dramatically, with bass-baritone Eric Halfvarson singing Hagen's call from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. (1994, I believe...)
Sometimes you just have to slow down and listen. For a moment like this, Mascagni's Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana".
Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Colombini, Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, 2014.
When I left home today, we had 12°C, and the real feel was 6°C. So let's dream together about Italy with "Love in Portofino" and wish happy birthday to Andrea Bocelli because today he's turning 68.
I wish you a great day with Lang Lang playing Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's "Bist du bei mir" (formerly attributed to Bach, which is why you'll keep encountering it as BWV 508).
For today's goodbye, a personal "obsession " for the last week or so, Beethoven's Overture to Egmont. And to help reach perfection, Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker. (1985)
From last Friday at Isar Philharmonie in Munich, Martha Argerich and Lahav Shani (who is also the chief conductor!) playing an encore from Ravel’s "Ma mère l’Oye".
I'm not a Hervé Koubi fan, but the preview for his interpretation of "Swan Lake" looks good.
First, get yourself a coffee. Then, let the German hunters make your day while performing "The Sound of Silence".
We start this week strong with baritone Quinn Kelsey singing Verdi's “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata” from "Rigoletto" in the New Year’s Eve gala premiere for the 2021–22 season.
Have a great week!
This evening, I say goodbye with Renée Fleming singing Puccini's “O mio babbino caro”. It's one of those signs that you have to slow down and listen.
Berliner Philharmoniker, directed by Ion Marin at Waldbühne, Berlin (June 27, 2010)
For my afternoon coffee, I chose Uto Ughi and I Filarmonici di Roma performing Paganini's "Rondo" from Violin Concerto No. 4.
In 2011, Docomo, the Japanese telecom company, made an ad with an extremely long xylophone, where a rolling ball recreates Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with every step/hit.
Japanese trumpetist Daiki Takiti is making people's lives better, and now ours too. (I might have butchered his name.) Have a good Sunday!
I use the ending of the Tannhäuser-Overture to say goodbye for today. Epic!
What a pleasure this was! Pablo Sáinz-Villegas playing Tárrega's "Recuerdos de la Alhambra". Those times when you listen to something that completely upgrades your mood. 👏👏👏
A history page that I encountered randomly, Jon Vickers singing Wagner's "Winterstürme" from Die Walküre, with Karl Böhm directing the CBC Festival Orchestra on April 1, 1963.
Telecast from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
For the young ones, Zürich Opera released a glimpse of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute), a production by Daniele Finzi Pasca, featuring music, acrobatics, and visual storytelling. It partially overlaps with the next school break, being available from September 20 to October 30. (Official link included)
https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/spielplan/calendar/die-zauberfloete-1/"Niccolo" is a short 2025 animated film from Gobelins Paris about Paganini's musical journey. Though some may find it a little dark here and there for the little ones...
