O weiter, stiller Friede!

Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, R Strauss and more. Obsessed with lieder.A side blog run by someone who's between scholarly knowledgeable & completely ignorant, loving music to her last heartbeat and beyond. Blogging from somewhere in UTC+8, looking forward to experiencing the masters' music in Europe again.

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Quick snapshots of Berliner Philharmonie, my favourite concert hall in the world.

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Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater! (Hope to return when they move back to Unter den Linden :))

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Great to be back to Philharmonie :D Utterly amazing night!

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IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS AND YOU’RE ANY MUSIC CLASS, WATCH IT I HAVEN’T LAUGHED SO HARD IN MONTHS. IF YOU’RE IN BAND, ORCHESTRA OR CHOIR WATCH THIS MASTERPIECE.

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this doesn’t even BEGIN to get into the fuckery that is percussion sheet music

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Currently waiting for Act 3 of Siegfried in concert! So far this is one of the very best local concerts I’ve ever attended in the recent years. Kudos to all musicians and vocalists! A round of applause for the brass section too (clean, lovely and without technical error!) :)

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After quite some months I’m attending a local concert again. It features one of my favourite pieces so I have to be better prepared to enjoy Jaap van Zweden’s take- last time I heard this piece live was by his precedent Edo de Waart at least 4-5 years ago.

Reading the score while listening is quite helpful because my stupid ears often miss stuff :)

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Schubert - Winterreise (Winter Journey), D. 911 XVII. “Im Dorfe” (“In the Village”)  Peter Pears, tenor Benjamin Britten, piano

The hounds are barking, their chains are rattling; Men are asleep in their beds, They dream of the things they do not have, Find refreshment in good and bad things. And tomorrow morning everything is vanished. Yet still, they have enjoyed their share, And hope that what remains to them Might still be found on their pillows. Bark me away, you waking dogs! Let me not find rest in the hours of slumber! I am finished with all dreaming:   Why should I linger among sleepers?

Schubert’s Winterreise was, after Die schöne Müllerin, the second of his great cycles on texts by Wilhelm Müller. “Come to Schober’s today,” Schubert told his close friend Joseph von Spaun, “and I will play you a cycle of terrifying songs. They have affected me more than has ever been the case with any other songs.”

Written in two equal halves at either end of 1827, Winterreise represents Schubert’s self-conscious labored struggle through the winter of his life. The settings are exquisitely sensitive and economical, delivering raw emotion in a way which indispensably illuminates the verse depicting a wayfarer’s harsh travels through the snow in search of the beloved.

In “Im Dorfe,” the pianist’s left hand imitates village dogs rattling their chains as they bark at the nameless transient.  

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I wish her career weren’t that tragically short :( (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqkrwgbsZ8)

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OH MY GOD I’VE BOOKED A TICKET TO A LIEDERNACHMITTAG(?) AT WIGMORE HALL :D

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Stefan Dohr is my favourite horn principal. I was once moved to tears by his live solo in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. I wished I could hear this live.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Q0FVB8q3E)

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Heard them live when they toured my city years ago and I was mesmerised!

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYSuGQfiqE)

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He is always the Mario to my heart. That “O! dolci baci, o languide carezze, mentr'io fremente le belle forme disciogliea dai veli!” always makes me shiver- that dynamic change is just too much for my heart! (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y468Lvp27CA)

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she’s my favourite soprano *sighs*

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbTcwuTpY0)

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#newyorkcity #newyork #nyc #architecture (at The Metropolitan Opera)

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Songs from Our Ancestors now on sale

Globe Music is our very own record label that sets out to capture the intimacy of our candlelit concerts in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 

We’re excited to announce that our first recording, Ian Bostridge and Xuefei Yang’s Songs from Our Ancestors, is now available to buy. 

Bill Barclay, our Director of Music, said:

‘Featuring two of today’s unparalleled and most imaginative artists, Songs from Our Ancestors epitomizes our ambition, merging trajectories of history and poetic influence in a unique, thoughtful and eclectic journey that is both global and personal.’

Songs from Our Ancestors is available to buy on CD or alternatively you can download the MP3.

You can also purchase the CD from Amazon.

Discover more about Globe Music and our upcoming releases. 

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Ah! one that is wretched as I Yields himself gladly to such cunning, That portrays, beyond ice, night, and horror, A bright warm house. And inside, a loving soul. - Ah, my only victory is in delusion!