Recording travel photo sketch

2010/5/8-10

Bratislava-Vienna

This BGM is the beginning of 1st movement of "Pastorale" that we recorded this time.

We ate our fill in the morning and went to Vienna by bus from Bratislava.

On the way to Vienna,
we run beside flower garden of rape blossom.

It was just "Pastorale".

 

 Then we entered in the city by way of airport of Vienna.

It took about one hour and a half.

It takes one hour by train, but the rate is more expensive.

We paid 14.5 EUR (about 1600 YEN) for a round trip.

Anyway, we greeted these two as we reached Vienna first.
In the left, there are red or blue containers behind stature of Beethoven.
The building is under construction.

In the right, stature of Strauss in the park is glittering.

It was black before, one day it turned,
I saw through the window of a tram then, so there was public unrest.

 There are two Beethoven's Houses (that are said to Beethoven lived)
in Heiligenstadt.

One is in the left and there is display of commemoration.

Another is in the right and is a part of a pub.

There are two churches, too. One is in inner part of a park of Heiligenstadt.
Another is next to the pub of Beethoven's House.

Well, which is the one that caused Beethoven to make a "will of Heiligenstadt"?
"The bell of church is moving, but I can't hear!"

The bell can't be seen! The left one is far and the right one is too near!

No other way is to be found to ask himself! Oh, he could not hear!

 

 The aim of a hike to Heiligenstadt of Vienna is to take pictures for the CD's jacket.

We went toward the stature of left.

Another new stature stands beyond the hill of this park in Heiligenstadt.

This is it in the right.

The path retains no traces of when Beethoven composed by arrangement, now.

But my heart is still full to think he walked this path.

During he had composed this "Pastorale" he might walk along
by this murmur of a stream, maybe not be limited this one,
and remember the time that he talked with his love Josefine in those days.

This 2nd movement of "Pastorale" suggests so entirely.

return

 

CD order here

 

Photo by
Teruo MURAKAMI
Takuhide
 MIZUHARA
Noriaki
 KITAMURA