I’ve noticed that unique, intense and rather strange connection I feel between the music, I used to listen frequently in different periods of my life with the very particular space and time it happened to be played in.
So, then goes Franz Schubert and his “Death and the Maiden” (“Der Tog und das Madchen) from 1824 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘music’
December 27, 2008
Cohen, Waits, Cave, Schubert and others… Whilt (3)
December 19, 2008
Beethoven’s Lessons
On that averagely average, cold and damp Irish spring day I met a woman in her 50s, an artist. She was a sort of a ‘enfant (should write: ‘ personne agee’) terrible’ in our small and – have to admit – still quite narrow-minded environment. Always alone, apparently considered as ‘dangerous’ [...]
November 12, 2008
Czeslaw Mozil – just smile a little…
I’ve just come across this artist and I think it’s worth to introduce him to the wider public.
He is charming, free-spirited, playful, original, talented. He was born in Poland, yet brought up in Denmark. He speaks English, Dutch and Polish – all with an adorable accent. He plays to the [...]
May 19, 2008
La Divina…
Maria Callas – Casta Diva (from V. Bellini’s Norma)
Casta Diva, che inargenti — O pure Goddess, who silver
queste sacre antiche piante, — These sacred ancient plants,
a noi volgi il bel sembiante — Turn [...]
