April 11th, 2024

Whoever would honor you must be bright and brave.

I am a coward. I am a sad man. Nothing
Can justify this audacity
Of singing the magnificent happiness
— Fire and crystal — of your soul in love.

— Borges, 'To Johannes Brahms'

(tr. Stephen Kessler)

Brahms #dotd
Paul Holdengraber

My Favorite Brahms,
died on this day, in 1897

Listen to the great Alexis Weissenberg in the First Piano Concerto

▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=QakQDg…

🔷 JOHANNES BRAHMS
Died on this day, in 1897

Glenn Gould Plays
The Complete Ballads
(New York, 1982)

thanks to Deny Fear

▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=NOTsc-…

Brassaï

#parisbynight

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“That best portion of a man's life,
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.”

― William Wordsworth
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Katia Chausheva

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“You’ll love the ocean endlessly, it is your mirror.”

― Charles Baudelaire
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Flore, L'odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin
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Débil
como uma haste de papoila
me suporta o momento.

Ricardo Reis (Pessoa) ~ Odes

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Amapola ~ Miguel Fleta 1925
youtu.be/RVj0KqDcQJk?si…
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Lots of important music was left unfinished at its composer's death, each piece with unique problems to overcome – if we are to hear it!
This one is about such problems and just how much we gain from overcoming them.　
pmf.or.jp/en/news/fn/fn0…

PETER MARLOW

Gondola and Gondolier.
Italy, Venice. 2005.

Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Mozart: Requiem In D Minor: Sequentia: Lacrimosa

youtu.be/KcnBPqOddSM?si…

Tokaido Express, Osaka-Tokyo
1970
Timm Rautert

Buon viaggio Maestro 🖤

R.I.P. ▪️Maurizio Pollini

Brahms:
Piano Concerto No.2

▪️Wiener Philharmoniker
▪️Claudio Abbado

youtu.be/f6wdxe3H098?si…

The Berliner Philharmoniker mourn the loss of Maurizio Pollini, who was one of the orchestra’s closest musical partners.
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Die Berliner Philharmoniker trauern um Maurizio Pollini, der zu den engsten musikalischen Partnern des Orchesters gehörte.
berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/news/detail…

Lucerne Festival mourns pianist Maurizio Pollini who passed away today at the age of 82 years.
For more than forty years, our Festival has been blessed to regularly welcome Pollini with numerous solo recitals and concerts with both the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Academy.

Steinway & Sons mourns the passing of Steinway Artist Maurizio Pollini. In our interview with Pollini, he revealed: 'I have struggled all my life for another thing: expressing the character of the composer, the character of the music.' Read more ▶️ brnw.ch/21wI9B1

This one is perhaps my favourite of all his albums. Listen to it from the first note to the last. Colossal.