On Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5

“Its darting fragments and solitary staccatos offer vegan austerity next to the red-meat indulgence of Mahler’s romantic ‘Symphony of a Thousand’.”
– Vivien Schweitzer
New York Times, October 13, 2008

Word Creations #3

On Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in New York:

“The Adagio of the Ninth was a classic Berliner tour-de-force: the extreme polish of the playing in every section created a fabulous mirage of music as three-dimensional space.”
– Alex Ross, New Yorker, December 3, 2007, p. 107

Word Creations #2

Tonloses Geraschel
(Peter Uehling: “Tonloses Geraschel,” Berliner Zeitung, September 27, 2006, p. 30)
Natureuphorien
Verdämmernde Exposition
Streicherwärme
Julia Spinola: “Streiflicher aus dem Jenseits,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 30, 2006, p. 41.

Word Creations #1

molldüster
engelhaft süßes Tenortimbre
flehentlich-expressive Nuancierung
warme Baßfülle

Julia Spinola on Mozart’s Betulia liberata at the Salzburg Festival. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 22, 2006, p. 31.