Ensemble Modern/Gruber/Giunta/Amarcord
(Ensemble Modern Media)
From Hindemith’s jazz-age energy to Schoenberg’s existential angst, and Kurt Weill’s biting satire to Korngold’s neo-Romanticism, this liv…
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My search for the perfect Sachertorte in Vienna ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The luscious chocolate and apricot torte is the stuff of legend in the grand, old world of Viennese coffeehouses. But which makes the tastiest?
I’m on a tram on Vienna’s Ringstrasse as towering facade…
4 months ago
My search for the perfect Danish pastry in Copenhagen ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In a city packed with bakeries, how do you find the best? I risked tooth decay to track down the quintessential blend of crisp pastry, an oozy centre and sugary cinnamon
Open sandwiches (smørrebrød), …
Leonkoro Quartet: Out of Vienna album review – a blazing exploration of Viennese modernism ⊕⊕
Leonkoro Quartet
(Alpha)
The young quartet give a fiercely alert account of Berg, Webern and Schulhoff – beautifully capturing Vienna’s prewar musical fault lines
Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonk…
Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for Viennese fingers | The sweet spot ⊕
Moreish teatime treats that melt in the mouth… go on, you deserve it
If I were to rank my top biscuits of all time, Viennese fingers would sit firmly in my top three. There’s not too much going on: j…
The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – a bold attempt to rehabilitate Freud ⊕⊕
An engrossing defence of the original psychoanalyst as a scientist and a healer which attempts to bring his pioneering theory up to date
Vladimir Nabokov notoriously dismissed the “vulgar, shabby, and…
6 months ago
Víkingur Ólafsson: Opus 109 album review – pianist’s concept album opens up transcendent vistas ⊕
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Olafsson’s account of Beethoven’s Op 109 is one of the most beautiful on record, the centrepiece of a recording that links the composer to Bach and Schubert
Disinclined to follow …
7 months ago
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal ⊕
Exclusive: the newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home
A “once in a century” discovery of a cache of…
10 months ago
Tanz fever: a whirl through the Viennese festival where dance erupts across the city ○
Austria’s month-long ImPulsTanz celebration goes beyond the norm to turn rope jumping, navel-gazing and masked protest into explosive shows
Matteo Haitzmann is a violinist who has tonight swapped his …
12 months ago
How to make the perfect Viennese whirls – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect … ○
Whether you prefer swirls, S shapes or fingers, these piped biscuits filled with optional buttercream are sure to melt in your mouth
My friend Caroline, being half French, is rarely inclined to ask me…