Posts Tagged ‘vienna’
Concerto Classic Wien: CD „Wein und Musik“ Präsentation in ORF2
März 27th, 2012 | admin
Wein und Musik haben zahllose Gemeinsamkeiten; allein das Vokabular, mit dem man einen guten Wein beschreibt, gleicht auf frappierende Weise dem, mit dem man versucht, Musikstücke zu charakterisieren: Temperamentvoll, spritzig, elegant, gehaltvoll…. Einige für Österreich typischen Wein- bzw. Rebsorten bilden die Grundlage dieses Projektes. Eine Jury, bestehend aus Dirigenten, Sänger, Musikern, Regisseuren und Weinfachleuten schlugen zu den jeweiligen Weinen und Rebsorten charakterlich passende Musikstücke vor. Aus diesen Vorschlägen haben sich jeweils drei Werke zu den einzelnen Weinsorten für die vorliegende Einspielung durchgesetzt. Diese Doppel-CD „Wein & Musik wurde am 16.4.2009 im Palais Eschenbach der Presse und der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Concerto Classic Wien, ein erfrischend neues Orchester in der österreichischen Kulturlandschaft, besteht aus hervorragenden Musikern aller Wiener Spitzenorchester und talentierten, orchestererfahrenen Nachwuchsmusikern. Es wurde 2009 in dem Bestreben gegründet, auf unkonventionellem Wege abseits von Routine und Orchesteralltag Freude am Musizieren zu vermitteln.
Austria Uncorked – Wine Event
März 27th, 2012 | admin
At the „Austria Uncorked“ Wine event in San Francisco an interview with Austrian Wine Managing Director Willi Klinger about the event and the history and philosophy of Austrian Wines. Austria Uncorked is an unlimited wine tasting featuring wines from over 80 Austrian Wineries at the Fort Mason Officers Club in San Francisco presented by the the Austrian Wine Marketing Board and the Austrian Trade Commission.
Wein in Wien
März 27th, 2012 | admin
Christian and I chillin‘ at the top of the stairs overlooking what I refer to as the tents. Was kann es schoeneres geben?
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Johann Strauss II – Wein, Weib und Gesang – Walzer, Op. 333
März 27th, 2012 | admin
„Who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.“ These lines (in translation), written in the mediæval castle of Wartburg in Germany, and attributed to Martin Luther (1483-1546) during his residence there when he began his German translation of the New Testament, provided the title and part of the text for the truly magnificent choral waltz Johann Strauss wrote in 1869 for the Wiener Männergesang-Verein – Wein, Weib und Gesang! But whereas his first choral waltz, An der schönen blauen Donau (By the beautiful blue Danube) of 1867 had been more or less constructed from previously existing sketches, the new work was conceived in its entirety for male chorus and orchestra and, as was noted by the Strauss authority Professor Dr. Fritz Racek, the work „makes up for the absence of a recapitulating Coda by means of an impressive [137 bars] Introduction of almost symphonic proportions“. As with An der schönen blauen Donau, the text for the waltz came from the pen of the Association’s house poet, Joseph Weyl (1821-95). Wein, Weib und Gesang! – a particular favourite with Richard Wagner – was given its first performance by the Wiener Männergesang-Verein at their carnival-time ‚Narrenabend‘ (Fools‘ Evening) held in the Dianabad-Saal, Vienna, on 2 February 1869. The Strauss Orchestra provided the accompaniment, and although the composer did not conduct the première of his new waltz, he was present among the audience, dressed as a pilgrim, while the members of …
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Johann Strauss – Cagliostro in Wein (Cagliostro in Vienna) – overture to the the operetta
März 27th, 2012 | admin
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (2 June 1743 26 August 1795) was the alias for the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (also called Joseph Balsamo), an Italian adventurer. He was born to a poor family in Albergheria, which was once the old Jewish Quarter of Palermo, Sicily Cagliostro claimed to be the son of the Prince and Princess of the Anatolian Christian Kingdom of Trebizond, orphaned and reared by the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta and, for several years, in the household of the Sheriff of Medina (who brought him up as a Christian.) He was prosecuted in the affair of the diamond necklace which involved Marie Antoinette and Prince Louis de Rohan, and was held in the Bastille for nine months but finally acquitted, when no evidence could be found connecting him to the affair. Nonetheless, he was asked to leave France, and departed for England. Here he was accused by Theveneau de Morande of being Giuseppe Balsamo, which he denied in his published Open Letter to the English People, forcing a retraction and apology from Morande. Cagliostro left England to visit Rome, where he met two people who proved to be spies of the Inquisition. Some accounts hold that his wife was the one who initially betrayed him to the Inquisition. On 27 December 1789, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel Sant’Angelo. Soon afterwards he was sentenced to death on the charge of being a Freemason. The Pope changed his sentence, however, to life imprisonment in the Castel Sant’Angelo. After …
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