It’s October 2019 and Beethoven and Schumann are on the program… the good old days! This blog post has been sitting and waiting for a while and with everything that’s been happening this year, 2019 really feels like a lifetime ago. But before discussing the performance itself, there was something more noteworthy to anybody who … Read More →
Johann Sebastian Bach is NOT overrated. While it’s difficult to pick favourites among the greatest composers of classical music, when pressed, I just love Bach a little bit more than the other great musical geniuses and admitted as much in an earlier book review. In a slightly morbid thought-experiment, I sometimes find solace in the … Read More →
With the classical music season 2018/2019 in full swing, I already listened to a lot of wonderful concerts in the last couple of weeks and months. As always when attending live performances, there was more to them than just the music. While a lot of classical music has proven timeless (although even hundred-year-old classics come … Read More →
