Strauss Videos

Hetty and I after the recital

Last Thursday, pianist Hetty Choe and I performed together at the Good Samaritan Village in Las Cruces, NM. We’d been working on these together for a few weeks, and we planned this about a month ago. When she asked me if I wanted to perform some Strauss, I was thrilled. I love Strauss lieder. And since I’m moving very soon, I figured it would be a good last performance in Las Cruces for awhile.

I was right. The music was wonderful to sing and to listen to (Hetty’s solo pieces were very exciting), and the audience in attendance was very kind to us. The folks at Good Sam have always been regular attendees to classical music events here in town, and we’re grateful for it.

Below are the videos of the Richard Strauss songs we performed. Because they were filmed on a regular video camera, the audio is a little “squashed” sounding at the louder moments. Also if your computer and internet connection can handle it, I suggest that you click the 360p in the lower right hand side of the controls and change it to 720p. The video won’t get much better, but the audio will.

By the way, many thanks to my sweetheart Rebekah who held the camera remarkably still during the performance.