In the mood for Jonas Kaufmann performing Canio’s aria, “Vesti la giubba,” from Pagliacci at the Vienna State Opera. Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, January 2025.

Khatia Buniatishvili playing Tchaikovsky’s October seems optimal right now. View quoted note →

Sometimes I wonder. How many normies, like me, were attracted by classical music through Beethoven's Für Elise? Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin conducted by Michael Zukernik.

Yuri Boukoff playing Albéniz's Asturias. View quoted note →

This time, Marianela Nuñez as Cinderella. View quoted note →

To end the day, I want to thank you for following, it's nice to have along a few other like-minded people while travelling through life. Here are some peaceful moments in a crazy world with Elizaveta Frolova singing Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, OP. Posth.

This should be a more common sight.

Khatia Buniatishvili playing Hungarian Rhapsody N°: 2 by Franz Liszt. Bucharest, Romania, 2017. (I added both short and full versions.)

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with conductor Daniel Barenboim and soprano Waltraud Meier. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde View quoted note →

As a side note, the registrations for the debutante auditions at the Vienna Philharmonic Ball 2026 (Ball der Wiener Philharmoniker) are now open. If you are between 17 and 27 years old and would like the honour of opening the ball in the beautiful Musikverein, you can apply now through Tanzschule Elmayer. The auditions will take place on October 18th.

Another leap back in time with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con Brio. Conducted by Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra and recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1952.