/ 2021 / … Very personal documentary about Schubert’s life and music, showing the composer’s brilliance not just as a writer of great songs but also as a writer of captivating instrumental music, especially for the piano. London: BBC 1997. Norwegian subtitles.
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Solti Navigating Wagner: Siegfried Funeral Music & Tannhauser Overture
/ 2009 / … Götterdämmerung – Solti – VPO Video showing Vienna Horns in F and Wagner Tuben, they are correctly called Wagner TUBEN (TUBE singular) (as in TUBES) and not TUBAS actually. Time and the need for a translation has changed that to tubas, just so you know (doubting Thomas’s please look in the… Continue reading Solti Navigating Wagner: Siegfried Funeral Music & Tannhauser Overture
PL: Piekielna Inteligencja Krukowatych
Krukowate to inteligencja wśród ptaków. Potrafią rozpoznawać ludzkie twarze, nawiązywać relacji z konkretnymi ludźmi, a nawet mścić się na tych, którzy wyrządzili im krzywdę. Jakim cudem małe ptasie mózgi mogą być tak wydajne? Dlaczego krukowate rozwinęły tak wysoką inteligencję? Dowiedz się Co Chodzi Ci za Oknem – Kruk, Gawron, Wrona, Kawka? – Czarne Ptaki Krukowate… Continue reading PL: Piekielna Inteligencja Krukowatych
Rosalyn Tureck J.S. BACH Goldberg Variations – Aria
From a 2002 lecture on Bach’s ornamentation for the Taubman Institute in Williamstown, Massachusets a few months before her death…
David Oistrakh
RusLan David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? | Documentary Film by Bruno Monsaingeon A portrait of violinist David Oïstrakh, from his birth in Odessa in 1908 until his in 1974, and his career under Stalin’s left wing terrorist regime. Featuring interviews with his peers Menuhin, Rostropovich and Rojdesvensky, this biography asks the question: was Oïstrakh… Continue reading David Oistrakh