Tribute to Shostakovich

Something miraculous burns in music;
as you watch, its edges crystallize.
Only music speaks to me
when others turn away their eyes.

When fearful friends abandoned me
music stayed, even at my grave,
and sang like earth’s first shower of rain
or flowers suddenly everywhere alive.

Anna Akhmatova

'Never, it seems to me, was man so molten and fluid,
and yet never was he so shut up within himself, never so walled about as he is today, and never was he so cold of heart.'

Vyacheslav Ivanov

1866 Moscow - 1949 Rome

🎨Konstantin Somov, 1896

📷© Mario Giacomelli

'Un uomo ,una donna'

'We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence.
No one can cross the boundary into another - for the simple reason that no one can gain acces to himself.'

Paul Auster

Alphonse Mucha

'Winternight'

Wofgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto 24 C minor

I love this imposing interpretation,
Sokolov playing tutti,
and his own cadenza.

Gigory Sokolov
Herbert Blomstedt
München, 1989
( thanks to Michael Berner )
youtu.be/0P5jTIZeJ-8

'Weder der erhabene Grad an Intelligenz oder Fantasie noch beides führt dazu, dass man ein Genie wird. Liebe, Liebe, Liebe, das ist die Seele des Genies.'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Weder der erhabene Grad an Intelligenz oder Fantasie noch beides führt dazu, dass man ein Genie wird. Liebe, Liebe, Liebe, das ist die Seele des Genies.'

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things,
if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.'

Lord George Gordon Byron

btd 1788 d 1824

'We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.'

🎥Federico Fellini

btd 1920 Rimini d 1993 Roma