In Joseph Haydn's immense production, the songs occupy a small place, he wrote about fifty; that means that there are twice as many symphonies as there are songs. They were, moreover, late works: the first ones are from 1781 when the composer was forty-nine. Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was likely not interested in the new genre that came from the north because otherwise [...]
To coincide with Saint George's day, I'm posting on Tuesday this week. We need a rose for the Liederabend, don't we? This year, our musical rose arrives from Russia.
While translating the Catalan post, I'm not sure that this expression is usually used in English: “things (concerts, singers, movies…) are not just as they used to be”. We use it to joke, express irony, or complain. For example, why do so many current films last more than 200 minutes, when Hitchcock or Lubitsch created masterpieces within 90 minutes?
Here's to Schubert! This would be the headline, after the programme of the 32nd Schubertíada was presented a few hours ago. Here's to Schubert and his sense of friendship! Thanks to this, we are here, two hundred years later, celebrating his music.
The Hollywooder Liederbuch by Hanns Eisler, probably his second best-known work, tells about his escape from Nazi Germany and exile to the United States, and he often does so with the verses of his friend Bertolt Brecht, with whom he shared fate. After the war ended, some exiled German artists and intellectuals returned home, others preferred to stay in the host country; Eisler [...]
Totes les sessions seran a les 19 hores a La Tribu Llibreria c/Pons i Gallarza 30, Sant Andreu