Sinopsis
Just another WFIU weblog
Episodios
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Beethoven: Violin Sonata
30/12/2010Here’s a hint: A cinematic look at the mind of a musical genius.
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
27/12/2010Here’s a hint: It’s a tour-de-force if there ever was one!
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Carol of the Bells
24/12/2010Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A tintinnabulation of tinsel!
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Praetorius: Es ist ein Rose Entsprungen
23/12/2010Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A flower of legend.
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Ho ho ho!
22/12/2010The story for this opera came from a tale by a famous Russian author, which originally appeared in a collection of short stories written in a folkloric style. The plot concerns a young blacksmith who must capture the Devil in a sack and fly on his back to St. Petersburg in a scheme to procure the Empress’s slippers.
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Smetana, Bartered Bride: Overture
20/12/2010Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A matrimonial marketplace.
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Glass: Dracula
16/12/2010Here’s a hint: spooky silence gets a makeover… or a classic mystery, in the looking “glass”…
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Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor
10/12/2010Here’s a hint: It’s Shakespeare. . . with a German twist!
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Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring
07/12/2010Here’s a hint: A beautiful 20th-century take on an English master.
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Verdi: Macbeth Excerpts
06/12/2010Here’s a hint: Witches certainly know how to have fun while casting spells!