Season's greetings to those who have helped me this year. This year, I recorded Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" K.618 as an original greeting card. This song is only 46 bars long, but it is filled with sacredness and musical profundity, and is a masterpiece by Mozart.
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Oh, I've given it a sensational title again. But this year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach), the second son of the great Bach (JSBach), and I don't think it's wrong to call him the father of classical music in the narrow sense, or classical music. That Mo…
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On Sunday afternoon, I went to see The Magic Flute at the Staatsoper im Schillertheater in Berlin. The girl next to me was about 9 years old, but she was leaning forward to watch. If you grow up going to church for mass in the morning and opera in the afternoon, it's only natural that your basic physical strength will be different from that of a musician who grew up in Japan. However, The Magic Flute is a good piece…
Further display Magic Flute @ Staatsoper im Schillertheater, Berlin
As the first cold wind of the year blew through Tokyo, I went to Shinjuku Cultural Center to see Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro." It was a performance by young performers from the Nikikai ensemble. Of course, there were some flaws and other things, but I went with the intention of simply having fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My 11-year-old daughter, who accompanied me, also seemed to enjoy it. On the way back...
Further display Marriage of Figaro
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