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December 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
After Christmas
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
10 years ago Lemmy died.
The epitome of a long life of Rock 'n' Roll who knew how to write a ballad. 🔥
youtu.be/ET07vTF_y94?...
The epitome of a long life of Rock 'n' Roll who knew how to write a ballad. 🔥
youtu.be/ET07vTF_y94?...
Motörhead - God Was Never on Your Side
YouTube video by Gasha James Dio
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December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
10 years ago Lemmy died.
The epitome of a long life of Rock 'n' Roll who knew how to write a ballad. 🔥
youtu.be/ET07vTF_y94?...
The epitome of a long life of Rock 'n' Roll who knew how to write a ballad. 🔥
youtu.be/ET07vTF_y94?...
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My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
Staring into the Abyss with Wozzeck
Alban Berg's Wozzeck, the first atonal opera in history, is among the most poignant and radical works in the operatic repertoire. No comforting melodies, no heroic arias -- but shrill dissonances and....
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December 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
Staring into the Abyss with Wozzeck
Alban Berg's Wozzeck, the first atonal opera in history, is among the most poignant and radical works in the operatic repertoire. No comforting melodies, no heroic arias -- but shrill dissonances and....
www.wagner-heavymetal.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
100 year ago WOZZECK by Alban Berg premiered.
Wozzeck was once the first opera I saw live, it fascinates me ever since. It was therefore a delight (if one can call it that) to see it in a very good production.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/staring...
Boxing Day:
Mahler Christmas Matinees from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink. Splendid performances that were, for me, genre transgressing events. Big music.
Mahler Christmas Matinees from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink. Splendid performances that were, for me, genre transgressing events. Big music.
December 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Boxing Day:
Mahler Christmas Matinees from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink. Splendid performances that were, for me, genre transgressing events. Big music.
Mahler Christmas Matinees from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Bernard Haitink. Splendid performances that were, for me, genre transgressing events. Big music.
Cosima's diary - 25 December 1870:
"I shall just tell you, drily and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music!"
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"I shall just tell you, drily and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music!"
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
Siegfried Idyll
Cosima's diary - Sunday, 25 December 1870 About this day, my children, I can tell you nothing-nothing about my feelings, nothing about my mood, nothing, nothing. I shall just tell you, drily and...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Cosima's diary - 25 December 1870:
"I shall just tell you, drily and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music!"
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
"I shall just tell you, drily and plainly, what happened. When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music!"
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
With the discovery of Richard Wagner, I found something that I had lost in rock music. Something that touches you both emotionally and intellectually. Wagner's music was not only a gateway to opera but to new worlds of sound. Wagner led me to Schoenberg, Ligeti and more.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
With the discovery of Richard Wagner, I found something that I had lost in rock music. Something that touches you both emotionally and intellectually. Wagner's music was not only a gateway to opera but to new worlds of sound. Wagner led me to Schoenberg, Ligeti and more.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com
www.wagner-heavymetal.com
Because endings come with new beginnings, and because this a very nice song by someone with the perfect name for the season: Julie Christmas.
#metalsky #christmas
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#metalsky #christmas
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Julie Christmas - End Of The World, feat. Johannes Persson
YouTube video by RED CRK
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December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Because endings come with new beginnings, and because this a very nice song by someone with the perfect name for the season: Julie Christmas.
#metalsky #christmas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJZ...
#metalsky #christmas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJZ...
"On Christmas Day, my 31st birthday, this notebook was to have started; [..] You shall know every hour of my life [..] for if I die young, others will be able to tell you very little about me, and if I ive long, I shall probably only wish to remain silent."
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
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From Cosima's diaries
"On Christmas Day, my 31st birthday, this notebook was to have started; I could not get it in Lucerne. And so the first day of the year will also contain the beginning of my reports to you, my...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"On Christmas Day, my 31st birthday, this notebook was to have started; [..] You shall know every hour of my life [..] for if I die young, others will be able to tell you very little about me, and if I ive long, I shall probably only wish to remain silent."
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/classical-pi...
Not a year goes by without Parsifal being among my most played music. (It is the Wagner opera I return to the most often.) My favourite from Bayreuth is Krauss '53 (followed by Knappertsbusch '64). #opera
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Not a year goes by without Parsifal being among my most played music. (It is the Wagner opera I return to the most often.) My favourite from Bayreuth is Krauss '53 (followed by Knappertsbusch '64). #opera
Amongst my most played music this year is this album from 2017 by MYRKUR (one-person band project of Amalie Bruun). On the latest Myrkur-albums the black metal has disappeared but on "Mareridt" it cast a delicious atmospheric, hallucinary shadow. Excellent. For every moment of the day. #metalsky
December 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Amongst my most played music this year is this album from 2017 by MYRKUR (one-person band project of Amalie Bruun). On the latest Myrkur-albums the black metal has disappeared but on "Mareridt" it cast a delicious atmospheric, hallucinary shadow. Excellent. For every moment of the day. #metalsky
From today the days are getting longer!
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
From today the days are getting longer!
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My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
Die ersten Menschen
In the enchanting world of post-Wagnerian opera, it is remarkable to notice that Wagner's influence may have been even greater outside the realm of opera than within it. Perhaps even more than in...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
And on 21-12 this album is inevitable of course
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
And on 21-12 this album is inevitable of course
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
Die ersten Menschen
In the enchanting world of post-Wagnerian opera, it is remarkable to notice that Wagner's influence may have been even greater outside the realm of opera than within it. Perhaps even more than in...
www.wagner-heavymetal.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN. A long forgotten gem of Rudi Stephan who died in the trenches of WO1 before his only opera, in a late-Romantic style aligning with the music of Max Reger and Franz Schreker, saw its premier.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/die-ers...
Dante Symphony-Franz Liszt
Brilliant Classic budget release that is still my favorite. Haenchen plays the journey along Hell and Purgatory with a strong sense of understatement. Letting the music do its work with tantalizing and mysterious effect. The Magnificat, the closener, is of ungodly beauty.
Brilliant Classic budget release that is still my favorite. Haenchen plays the journey along Hell and Purgatory with a strong sense of understatement. Letting the music do its work with tantalizing and mysterious effect. The Magnificat, the closener, is of ungodly beauty.
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Dante Symphony-Franz Liszt
Brilliant Classic budget release that is still my favorite. Haenchen plays the journey along Hell and Purgatory with a strong sense of understatement. Letting the music do its work with tantalizing and mysterious effect. The Magnificat, the closener, is of ungodly beauty.
Brilliant Classic budget release that is still my favorite. Haenchen plays the journey along Hell and Purgatory with a strong sense of understatement. Letting the music do its work with tantalizing and mysterious effect. The Magnificat, the closener, is of ungodly beauty.
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
Frau Ohne Schatten in a regie by Kate Mitchell opened my ears again for Strauss wonderfull, lush score. And yes, I liked the production with good singers, a superb orchestra and the movie-like thriller staging.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/katie-m...
Frau Ohne Schatten in a regie by Kate Mitchell opened my ears again for Strauss wonderfull, lush score. And yes, I liked the production with good singers, a superb orchestra and the movie-like thriller staging.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/katie-m...
Katie Mitchell’s Metamorphosis of Myth: The Woman without Fairy tale
She may not have a shadow, but she certainly has great music. Massive, lush, and luxurious ( Gurre-Lieder, eat your heart out! ). Die Frau ohne Schatten is not Strauss’s best opera—its storyline...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My favorite listening experiences in 2025:
Frau Ohne Schatten in a regie by Kate Mitchell opened my ears again for Strauss wonderfull, lush score. And yes, I liked the production with good singers, a superb orchestra and the movie-like thriller staging.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/katie-m...
Frau Ohne Schatten in a regie by Kate Mitchell opened my ears again for Strauss wonderfull, lush score. And yes, I liked the production with good singers, a superb orchestra and the movie-like thriller staging.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/katie-m...
December 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
On the (belated) 255th birthday of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN:
From Furtwängler to Karajan to Chailly; this is an inventory, guaranteed subjective and by no means complete, of Ludwig's symphony cycles.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/on-the-...
From Furtwängler to Karajan to Chailly; this is an inventory, guaranteed subjective and by no means complete, of Ludwig's symphony cycles.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/on-the-...
On the birthday of Ludwig (Beethoven's Mighty Nine)
In this time of year, when hibernation tendencies seem to take over, I respond to the music of Beethoven in the most starkest of ways. Be it string quartets, piano sonates or symphonies, Beethoven's.....
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December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
On the (belated) 255th birthday of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN:
From Furtwängler to Karajan to Chailly; this is an inventory, guaranteed subjective and by no means complete, of Ludwig's symphony cycles.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/on-the-...
From Furtwängler to Karajan to Chailly; this is an inventory, guaranteed subjective and by no means complete, of Ludwig's symphony cycles.
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/on-the-...
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Thomas Johannes Mayer
hat uns verlassen. Ich kann es nicht fassen.
Ein liebenswerter Kollege der für einen Dirigenten ein wunderbarer Partner in der musikalischen Arbeit war. Wir haben unglaubliche 67 Aufführungen zusammen gestaltet. Unvergesslich - und nun nur noch auf den Tonträgern zu hören.
hat uns verlassen. Ich kann es nicht fassen.
Ein liebenswerter Kollege der für einen Dirigenten ein wunderbarer Partner in der musikalischen Arbeit war. Wir haben unglaubliche 67 Aufführungen zusammen gestaltet. Unvergesslich - und nun nur noch auf den Tonträgern zu hören.
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thomas Johannes Mayer
hat uns verlassen. Ich kann es nicht fassen.
Ein liebenswerter Kollege der für einen Dirigenten ein wunderbarer Partner in der musikalischen Arbeit war. Wir haben unglaubliche 67 Aufführungen zusammen gestaltet. Unvergesslich - und nun nur noch auf den Tonträgern zu hören.
hat uns verlassen. Ich kann es nicht fassen.
Ein liebenswerter Kollege der für einen Dirigenten ein wunderbarer Partner in der musikalischen Arbeit war. Wir haben unglaubliche 67 Aufführungen zusammen gestaltet. Unvergesslich - und nun nur noch auf den Tonträgern zu hören.
On the day WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART died in 1791:
Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C Minor, K. 546 (String Orchestra Version)
Otto Klemperer · Philharmonia Orchestra
Simply irresistibly gorgeous ...
youtu.be/fRWCRtW-L6I
Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C Minor, K. 546 (String Orchestra Version)
Otto Klemperer · Philharmonia Orchestra
Simply irresistibly gorgeous ...
youtu.be/fRWCRtW-L6I
Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C Minor, K. 546 (String Orchestra Version)
YouTube video by Otto Klemperer - Topic
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
On the day WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART died in 1791:
Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C Minor, K. 546 (String Orchestra Version)
Otto Klemperer · Philharmonia Orchestra
Simply irresistibly gorgeous ...
youtu.be/fRWCRtW-L6I
Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet in C Minor, K. 546 (String Orchestra Version)
Otto Klemperer · Philharmonia Orchestra
Simply irresistibly gorgeous ...
youtu.be/fRWCRtW-L6I
This is really good. Orchestral arrangements of Schubert songs with Matthias Goerne as ungodly beautiful and expressive story teller / singer.
Music for any time of day. Very gripping when listened to attentively, contributing to a state of pleasant concentration when you're working.
Music for any time of day. Very gripping when listened to attentively, contributing to a state of pleasant concentration when you're working.
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is really good. Orchestral arrangements of Schubert songs with Matthias Goerne as ungodly beautiful and expressive story teller / singer.
Music for any time of day. Very gripping when listened to attentively, contributing to a state of pleasant concentration when you're working.
Music for any time of day. Very gripping when listened to attentively, contributing to a state of pleasant concentration when you're working.