Category: What I Listened To

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week I decided to stick with the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. Specifically the 2023 Deutsche Grammophon recording by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. The technical prowess of Ólafsson is absolutely stunning on this recording. Several of the variations prompted me to create an entirely new playlist… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week I focused on the music of Maurice Ravel. I decided to go old school and pretend that I was listening to a CD. No jumping around from one track to another on Spotify. For this 1998 recording Pierre Boulez conducted The Cleveland Orchestra and the London… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week I focused on the piano music of Edvard Grieg. Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 I. Allegro molto moderato II. Adagio III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7 I. Allegro moderato II. Adante molto III. All Menuetto, ma poco… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week was Stravinsky, Mahler & Cage. (Oh my!) 3 Pieces for String Quartet – Igor Stravinsky Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’) – Gustav Mahler / I loved these! Thrilling. Beautiful. Moving. Made me want to learn German so I could follow the lyrics without… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week was a deep dive into solo viola music suggested to me by a fantastic violist friend of mine, Kallie Sugatski. I jotted down notes on the pieces as they came to me. Weariness heals wounds I – Olga Neuwirth / This took a couple of listens… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. I also went to see Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →