QUOTE OF THE DAY: OCTOBER 20, 2016 - VICTOR BORGE'S DREAMS OF MOZART / NEW IN REVIEWS: HERMANN ABERT'S W.A. MOZART (YALE)

Today's Quote of the Day comes to us from the "Clown Prince of Denmark," comedian-musician Victor Borge on the topic of Mozart "in Heaven:"

 

"In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters
in a huge hall in which they all reside.
Only Mozart has his own suite." 

-Victor Borge

Enjoy below Herr Mozart's "heavenly" duettino, Sull'aria (the Letter Duet) from the third act of Le Nozze di Figaro. Performed by Austrian lyric soprano Gundula Janowitz and soprano Edith Mathis of Lucerne under the baton of maestro Karl Böhm:


Attention bibliophiles and classical music aficionados! My review for Hermann Abert's classic W.A. Mozart (Yale version) can now be found in Reviews by Rose. More reviews coming soon.


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"There are works that persist through the passage of time... that permeate the dusty sheath that both binds and separates the past from the present. Works that, when filtered through a retrospective lens, continue to maintain the very essence of a divine-like creation, like the building blocks of an intricately complex monument - a world wonder that has existed though the ages. One that sparks generations of inquiry by those drawn to it’s magnificence, to it’s penetrating and majestic force..inspiring countless scholars to remark upon it’s persisting existence.

Marvels such as these command the historian and layman alike to persist in discovering its secrets to longevity, ever eager to teach subsequent generations. The Egyptians have the pyramids. The British have Stonehenge. Germany – and now the English-speaking world - have Hermann Abert’s W.A. Mozart..."

continue reading review (and listen to more music by Mozart!) here:

-Rose.

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