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2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
Elsewhere much brouhaha about the launch of a BBC Radio 3 extension. This new online channel will offer "peaceful favourites.....ethereal choral music, soothing orchestral textures [and] mood-based repertoire [including] shows that lean into the mindfulness, wellbeing and sleep space... to create a consistent, calming listening experience". Personally this development does not worry me very much, as I have given up listening to Radio 3 completely since it became a deformed clone of Classic FM. But the hijacking of wisdom practices such as mindfulness to justify a desperate lunge for the Classic FM market does concern me. Mindfulness has been taken out of context and exploited by many other misguided corporations before the BBC saw it as silver bullet for the moribund Radio 3. Similarly yoga and other components of Eastern wisdom traditions have been ruthlessly exploited for commercial gain. In fact mindfulness is a key component of Vipassana meditation in the Buddhist Theravada ('Way […]
2024-02-15 10:28:00
Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
Cio-Cio-San – Sonya Yoncheva Suzuki – Natalia Skrycka Kate Pinkerton – Rebecka Wallroth Pinkerton – Stefan Pop Sharpless – Carles Pachon Goro – Gonzalo Quinchahual Prince Yamadori – Taehan Kim Uncle Bonze – Grigory Shkarupa Commissioner – Dionysios Avgerinos Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Verena Allertz Aunt – Michèle Cusson Uncle – Insoo Hwoang Child – Carl BeymeDirector – Eike GramssRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiDesigns – Peter SykoraLighting – Irene SelkaStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinDomingo Hindoyan (conductor)Images (from the 1991 premiere): Gianmarco Bresadola Happy St Valentine’s Day! Ash Wednesday and an opera about sex tourism. Whatever we might think about the latter two, many will agree that the coincidence is well deserved by the pseudo-feast of heart-shaped balloons and ‘special menus’ at three times the price, a third of the culinary quality. In retrospect, or rather more or less as soon as I had arrived, I could not help […]
Serenade (Western Classical Music in India)
2024-02-11 18:31:12
Suzuki, Einstein and India
Suzuki is a household name worldwide for any western music student or teacher. As someone invested in music education, the life of Shinichi Suzuki is endlessly fascinating to me. So I found ‘Suzuki: The Man and his Dream to Teach the Children of the World’ (2022) by Eri Hotta a gripping read. Hotta’s comprehensive biography also addressed the needless controversy created by American violin virtuoso and composer Mark O’Connor (whom I regard highly on both counts) when in 2014 he […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
2024-02-04 05:00:00
Bruhns - Cantatas, Organ Works
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)Cantatas and Organ WorksYale Institute of Sacred MusicMasaaki Suzuki - organ, directionPaul Max Tipton - bass-baritoneJames Taylor, Dann Coakwell - tenorRecorded May 2016 & March 2017Label: BIS-2271 SACDDownload 1fichier pixel workupload (16-44) 465 MBDownload 1fichier pixel (SACD-iso) 4,1 GB
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