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- Tristan und Isolde
  
  Posted at 10:15 am by A M Zénon, on February 10, 2013
  
  Wagner Tristan und Isolde.
  
  Needs no explanation. I played it countless times. Hard work in the LP era. Easier now, when the whole Act 2 is on 1 CD, as this one by Karl Böhm. Birgit Nilsson as Isolde and Wolfgang Windgassen as Tristan.
  I don’t remember when I heard Tristan und Isolde for the first time. It must be long ago. The prelude, whole Act 2 and Mild und Leise are the highlights. Actually, Tristan und Isolde is one highlight, from beginning to end.
  It is a miracle to me how Wagner could have thought and composed this music. Be it physical or spiritual. The music is magical.
  
  CD:Karl Böhm, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Eberhard Waechter, Bayreuther Festspiele 1966. Amazon
  
  CD:Wilhelm Furtwängler, Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia Orchestra. Disadvantage is Act 2 on 2 discs. Amazon
  
  DVD: Not found one yet, that I preferred to the CD’s.
  
  YouTube:Birgit Nilsson Mild und Leise Bayreuth 1966.
  
  Posted in Classical Playlists, Lifelong Love, Magical, Opera | 0 Comments | Tagged Birgit Nilsson, Karl Böhm, Kirsten Flagstad, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Wolfgang Windgassen
- Le Nozze di Figaro
  
  Posted at 5:50 pm by A M Zénon, on January 17, 2013
  
  1.Mozart
  
  Le Nozze di Figaro.
  
  The music is enchanting. The story is, well, let’s say, a little burlesque. Above all, Susanna, Figaro, La Contessa and the other characters remind me always of my friends. Mozart’s music is all-
  human.
  
  CD: Karl Böhm, Hermann Prey, Edith Mathis, Gundula Janowitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tatiana Troyanos, Chor and Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin. Amazon
  
  DVD: Karl Böhm, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maria Ewing, Wiener Philharmoniker. Amazon
  
  YouTube:The Jean-Pierre-Ponnelle movie, Karl Böhm, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maria Ewing, Wiener Philharmoniker.
  
  Posted in Classical Playlists, Joy, Lifelong Love, Opera | 0 Comments | Tagged Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edith Mathis, Figaro, Gundula Janowitz, Hermann Frey, Karl Böhm, Mozart
- In a Classical Mood.
  
  Posted at 5:50 pm by A M Zénon, on January 17, 2013
  
  I’m always listening to classical music or opera in a certain mood. Or I listen to a composer for days. Always playlists in my head and piles of CD’s next to me. Not the usual playlists. More like Lifelong Love, Nostalgia, Curiosity, and so on. I’ll try to made them public. Starting slowly. With additions and extensions in the course of time. And references to CD’s, DVD’s, Spotify, YouTube, books, even performances from the past. Maybe some explanation, reasons, feelings.
  
  However, be warned. I’m not very disciplined at sitting down and writing. I rather listen to music. If you write, you can’t listen. Instead of 1 hour writing a day, you can listen to about 3000 Lieder, 600 pieces of chamber music, 300 symphonies or 100 operas a year.
  
  I’ll try to show links to CD’s and DVD’s and to Amazon and YouTube.
  
  Posted in Classical Music, Classical Playlists, Opera | 0 Comments | Tagged Classical Music, Classical Playlists, Listening, Opera
- Fantasia ist zauberhaft !
  
  Posted at 5:35 pm by A M Zénon, on March 7, 2012
  
  Dies ist eine fantastische CD. Die Miniaturen sind hervorragend gespielt. Die Töne sind bezaubernd. Durch die Wahl wird es zu einer Reise durch eine erstaunliche Fülle von Klänge. Besonders liebe ich Dukas/Staub L’Apprenti sorcier, Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz Danse macabre und Scriabin Poème.
  
  Und natürlich das wunderschöne Gretchen am Spinnrade von Schubert/Liszt. “Ich liebe dieses Drama, erzählt sie, denn es steckt so viel Menschliches darin.”
  
  Aber alle Miniaturen sind fantastisch.
  Es gibt eine ausgezeichnete Erklärung in das CD Büchlein.
  Versuchen Sie Yuja Wang im Konzertsaal zu hören.
  Und hören Sie diese CD.
  
  Yuja Wang Fantasia
  
  Posted in Classical Music, Classical Playlists, Joy, Magical | 0 Comments | Tagged Classical Music, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Listening, Schubert, Yuja Wang
- Dichter und Bauer
  
  Posted at 9:50 am by A M Zénon, on November 9, 2010
  
  A little child, six years old, I was going to a fair. My mother told me about a kind of water organ with music. Full of expectations I was sitting at the front row inside a very large tent. Suddenly the organ was spraying water streams in all sorts of color. The fountains were waving from left to right and up and down. All in harmony with the music.
  
  I liked the show with all these magnificent colors. But moving me most was the music. I never liked the usual children songs. Now I was sitting upright, absorbed by the music.
  
  The slow beginning, the tempi, the waltz. The mildness and then the unexpected loudness of the orchestra. The violins, the flutes, the brass. The melancholy of the violoncello. Sounds I never sensed before.
  
  Life got a new and heavenly dimension. I have never forgotten this first conscious hearing of music. This enchantment of music.
  
  Posted in Classical Music, Classical Playlists, Joy, Nostalgia | 0 Comments | Tagged Childhood, Classical Music, Franz von Suppé, Listening, Memories
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