philosophy

Victim or Responsible?

A text about victim thinking and taking responsibility through Schumann and Munch.

Is there another way than revenge?

About the question "is there another way than revenge?", embedded by Mendelssohn's "Variations sérieuses" and Delaunay's "Premier Disque"

Allgemein

Do you love the life too?

Do you love the life too? Listen to the wonderful Elisabeth Leonskaja speaking about the role of music in her life and performing for us!

Allgemein

Music of the night

What is the night? Listen to Thomas Dausgaard and me reflecting about the night and performing Tchaikovsky's Nocturne...

Allgemein

How to deal with a loss?

My thoughts about how to deal with a loss illustrated by Schubert's 5th Symphony and Turner's Sun Setting over a Lake.

Allgemein

Strindberg’s Flying Dutchman – the necessity of looking further

About the necessity of looking further through Strindberg's Flying Dutchman, Grieg's Norwegian Melody "In Folk Style" for String Orchestra and the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians

Allgemein

About the depth of life.

About the depth of life through Rachmaninov's Prelude in G minor and Bach/Siloti's Prelude in B minor by Gilels, Kandinsky's "See mit Boot" and Rachmaninov's Vesper "Bogoroditse Devo"

Allgemein

The Inner Ear.

Watch here an episode of Thomas’ Music Room, an interactive music channel for children and other childlike souls, created by Thomas Dausgaard and me. This time it is about the […]

Allgemein

Guilt and other human inventions.

About guilt and other human inventions through Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B minor by Dinu Lipatti and Kandinsky's "Kochel - Wasserfall I"

Allgemein

Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances discovered for children and other childlike souls.

Watch here an episode of Thomas’ Music Room, an interactive […]

Allgemein

Be in peace. In memoriam my father.

Be in peace.

Allgemein

In memoriam

In memoriam my father.

Allgemein

Happy birthday, Bach! Reflections on the St Matthew Passion and the question: why crucifixion?

A text about the question: "Why crucifixion?" inspired by the music of J.S. Bach connecting the music of his St Matthew Passion and Rembrandt's "The Three Crosses"

Allgemein

About silence in music. In conversation with Thomas Dausgaard.

About silence in music. A conversation between me and Thomas Dausgaard.

Allgemein

Unconditional love. Bruckner and Delaunay II

A text about unconditional love combining the second movement of Bruckner's 6th symphony and Delaunay's "Simultaneous Contrasts".

Allgemein

The sun of love. Bruckner and Delaunay.

What is love? A text about love combining the second movement of Bruckner's 5th symphony and Delaunay's "Circular Forms, Sun No. 1"

Allgemein

Panta rhei.

Panta rhei. The flow of life. What remains if everything changes? Goethe's "Eins und Alles" combined with Sibelius and Delaunay.

Allgemein

Nielsen’s red.

A text about the colour red combining the first movement of Nielsen's 2nd symphony and my own painting.

Allgemein

About seriousness in music

What is it, seriousness? Why in music? A text combining Sokolov's interpretation of Chopin's C Minor Etude and Turner's "Sea View"

Allgemein

Frank Martin’s rose garden

Martin's stopping of time. A text about a big "Yet!" combining my own recording of Martin's Ballade with the Bamberger Symphoniker with Klee's "Rosengarten".

Allgemein

Cécile Chaminade and the sun

Music of my childhood in my own recording with the Bamberger Symphoniker. A text about the warm rays of the sun in Chaminade's Flute Concertino combined with Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with a Reaper".

Allgemein

Miracles

A text combining the final chorus of August Enna's "Little Match Girl" with Chapter 47 from the Tao Te Ching and my own foto.

Allgemein

New Year’s celebration

What is it, a new year? What is new in a year? Can a year be new? A text about the New year combining the third movement of Mozart's Concerto for 2 pianos No. 10 with a foto.

Allgemein

The light of Christmas

A text about the light of Christmas combining Bach's Choral "Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht!" and Olafur Eliasson's "Tate modern weather project".

Allgemein

Mercy

What is mercy for you? Bach's Choral "Seid froh" from his Christmas Oratorio combined with Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son".

Allgemein

A Winter Playlist

A playlist about winter combining music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and many more with own texts and Kandinsky's "Das Bunte Leben".

Allgemein

Fear and Resurrection. Mozart’s Requiem.

A text about fear and resurrection combining Mozart's Requiem and Rembrandt's "Supper at Emmaus".

Allgemein

Chaconne.

What music is for me in the shape of an own poem and recording.

Allgemein

Why are we doing what we are doing? Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor.

A text about our reasons and motives to do things combining Borodin's Overture to "Prince Igor" and Kandinsky's "Reitendes Paar".

Allgemein

Celebration of life. Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture.

Let us celebrate life!

Allgemein

Seriousness. Bach-Siloti by Emil Gilels.

A text about seriousness combining an own poem with Gilels's interpretation of Bach-Siloti's Prelude in B minor and an own foto.

Allgemein

Slowness. Messiaen’s L’Ascension.

A text about slowness combining Messiaen's "Prière du Christ montant vers son Père" for organ with my foto.

Allgemein

Essences. Beethoven and Gilels.

A text about essences combining Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata played by Gilels with a foto.

Allgemein

Autumn’s gentleness.

A text about autumn combining Brahms's Chorus "Im Herbst" with a poem by Rilke and a foto.

Allgemein

Who are we? Mozart’s gift to us.

A text about Mozart's gift to us combining his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A and Van Gogh's "Starry night over the Rhone".

Allgemein

Mysticism. Rilke and Rachmaninov.

A text about mysticism combining a poem by Rilke with Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto and an own foto.

Allgemein

Width. Bartok’s and Sibelius’ musical paintings.

A text about width combining the Presto from Bartok's 1st Suite, a poem by Morgenstern and Sibelius' "Andante festivo".

Allgemein

Joy! The beginning of Bartok’s 1st suite

A text about joy combining Bartok's 1st Suite and Lorenz' "Aufbruch".

Allgemein

A masquerade. Nielsen’s Overture to his opera ”Maskarade” newly associated.

A text about the wearing of a mask as a door to a philosophical question combining Nielsen's Overture to his opera "Maskarade" and Hermans' "Masquerade".

Allgemein

Connections. Brahms’ Hungarian Dances arranged by Thomas Dausgaard freely associated.

Brahms' Hungarian Dances arranged by Thomas Dausgaard freely associated with texts by Eichendorff, Rilke, Trakl and others combined with a foto. An invitation for ears and eyes.

Allgemein

What is humaneness?

A text about humaneness relating to Charlie Chaplin and my foto.

Allgemein

About answers.

A text about the How? and the Why? in life combining Jan Johansson's "Visa från Utanmyra" with a foto.

Allgemein

Quietly. Rachmaninov’s Vesper.

A text about quietness combining an own poem with Rachmaninov's Vesper "Blessed is the Man" and a foto of the Interior rose at Strasbourg Cathedral.

Allgemein

A stormy life. Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto.

A text about a stormy life combining an own poem with Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto and Van Gogh's "Wheatfield under thunderclouds".

Allgemein

Simplicity. Brahms’ Händel-Variations for piano.

A text about simplicity combining Brahms' Händel-Variations for piano with Beethoven, an own poem and Van Gogh's "Seascape near Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer".

Allgemein

Wonders.

A text about wonders combining Schubert's Impromptu No. 2 by Dinu Lipatti with a poem by Hilde Domin and Franz Marc's "Vögel".

Allgemein

Transience.

Associations about transience combining a poem by Rilke, my own recording of Bach's Partita in C minor, an own foto and poem and Dinu Lipatti's interpretation of Bach-Hess' Chorale "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring".

Allgemein

About real time. The Finale of Mahler’s 10th symphony.

A text about time combining the Finale of Mahler's 10th symphony, Olga Tokarczuk's "The lost soul" and Kandinsky's "Color study" from 1913.

Allgemein

Brahms’ ‘Gesang der Parzen’, ‘Song of the Fates’. About our fears. About feelings.

A text about our fears and feelings combining Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen" with Rubens' "Three Parcae", Kandinsky's "Komposition IV" and a poem by Rilke.

Allgemein

Authenticity. Mahler’s 7th symphony overture.

A text about authenticity combining the 1st movement of Mahler's 7th symphony with an own picture.

Allgemein

The pearl.

Associations about our soul combining Hubert Harry's interpretation of Bach's Chorale "Sanctify us by Thy Goodness" with an own poem and a foto.

Allgemein

Farewell. Strauss’ ‘Im Abendrot’.

Associations about the topic farewell combining Strauss' "Im Abendrot" from his Four Last Songs sung by Jessye Norman with the poem "Im Abendrot" by Eichendorff, an own poem and Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Setting Sun".

Allgemein

Hope.

Associations about hope combining Gilels' interpretation of Bach-Siloti's Prelude in B minor, an own poem, Sibelius' Andante festivo, a text by a Jewish Prisoner in a Concentration Camp and an own foto.

Allgemein

Hymn to Apollo.

Associations about Apollo combining a song by Paolo Conte, Matisse's "Dance", the "Second Delphic Hymn to Apollo", Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" and a picture of a "Male torso".

Allgemein

Dream and reality. Studio Ghibli’s ‘Castle in the sky’.

A text about dream and reality combining a soundtrack of Studio Ghibli and Van Gogh's "The Mulberry Tree".

Allgemein

Two in One.

Associations about "Two in One" combining Monet's "Argenteuil" with Lakmé's "Duo des fleurs" and an own poem.

Allgemein

A sign of the Divine. Rembrandt’s two “Supper at Emmaus”& Mendelssohn’s “Hear Ye, Israel”.

Associations about a sign of the Divine. Mendelssohn's "Hear Ye, Israel" and Rembrandt's "Supper at Emmaus".

Allgemein

Dancing. Rachmaninov’s fantastic symphonic dances.

An introduction to Rachmaninov's fantastic symphonic dances.

Allgemein

Sorrow. Turandot’s Liù.

A text about sorrow combining Liù's Aria from Puccini's "Turandot" with Van Gogh's "Sorrowing Old Man ('At Eternity's Gate') and the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem.

Allgemein

Be(e)ing.

Associations about Be(e)ing combining own photos with Bach's Lute Suite, Hilde Domin's poem "Im Regen geschrieben" and the end of Mozart's Jupiter symphony.

Allgemein

Circles. Through Kandinsky, Mozart and Rilke.

Do we live our life in circles? A journey in three art forms.

Allgemein

The colour blue. Through Cézanne, Rilke, Van Gogh and Mozart.

A text about the colour blue combining Cézanne's "Lac d'Annecy" with music from Mozart's "Magic Flute", Rilke and Van Gogh's "Starry night over the Rhone".

Allgemein

About coincidences.

A text about coincidences combining Schiller's "Don Carlos" with the first movement of Schumann's "Kreisleriana" and Rembrandt's "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee".

Allgemein

Rembrandt and humanity.

A text about humaneness combining Rembrandt's self-portrait with Bach Chorals by Dinu Lipatti and a text by Khalil Gibran.

Allgemein

Freedom. Bruckner’s 4th.

A text about freedom combining Bruckner's 4th Symphony with an interview by Herbert Blomstedt and an own photo.

Allgemein

About pain.

Associations about pain combining Strauss' "Zueignung", a song from Schumann's "Paradies und die Peri", texts by Gibran and Rilke and Kandinsky's "Mit und Gegen".

Allgemein

Creation. Esti dal.

Associations about creation combining Kodály's "Evening song" with a poem by Rilke and an own photo.

Allgemein

About darkness. Mahler’s 6th.

A text about darkness combining the beginning of Mahler's 6th symphony with an own photo.

Allgemein

Love.

Associations about Love combining an own poem with Schubert's Impromptu No. 2 by Dinu Lipatti, Bach's "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" by György Cziffra and an own photo.

Allgemein

Infinity.

A text about infinity combining Hubert Harry's interpretation of Bach's Chorale "Sanctify us by Thy Goodness" with an own foto.

Allgemein

Literamusic. A musical lecture.

Literature and music. How far can we combine them? Where is the limit of word, where is the limit of music? A musical lecture combining music and texts in a complementing way.

Allgemein

About beauty, in A minor. A musical lecture.

What is beauty? What is beautiful in this world? Associations about beauty in form of a musical lecture in A minor with texts.

Allgemein

Eternity.

Associations about eternity combining Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte" with a text by Khalil Gibran and an own foto.

Allgemein

About death. A musical lecture.

What does death mean? A musical lecture in form of a playlist with texts.