Friday, October 29th, 2010
“Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” (“Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart”) is the second aria sung by the soprano role Queen of the Night in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
Diana Damrau as Queen of Night.
Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina.
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen,
Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her!
fühlt nicht [...]
Friday, October 8th, 2010
The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on March 9, 1785.
You can listen here the famous Andante. The opening section is for orchestra only and features muted strings. The first violins play with a dreamlike melody over an accompaniment consisting of second violins and violas playing repeated-note triplets and the [...]
The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The work is more commonly known by the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The German title means “a little serenade”, though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as “a little night music”.
The work is [...]