Dieter Pasching, Tenor

La Traviata – De miei bollenti spiriti

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dieter

“La Traviata” concert recorded in November 2006 at Edelmann Saal Vienna. Was recorded live by a friend with minidisc. Sounds a bit like an old historic recording.

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La Traviata – Lunge da lei

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Dieter

“La Traviata” concert recorded in November 2006 at Edelmann Saal Vienna. Was recorded live by a friend with minidisc. Sounds a bit like an old historic recording.

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Osechi ryori (New Year’s dishes)

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dieter

Happy New Year! Here is a picture of our Osechi ryori. Since many necessary ingredients are not available here in Austria, we just improvised a little…

Black beans (Kuromame), different cooked dishes (Nimono & Oden), tuna (Katsuo), miso soup with natto (Nattojiru), seaweed (Nori), rice (Gohan), and green tea.

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Chang noodles

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Dieter

Normally I am not a big fan of advertising restaurants directly but in this case I will make an exception.

Chang noodles in Vienna’s fourth district has the damn finest Chinese noodles that I could find here in Vienna! Reasonably priced, they have various lunch set menus as well as a wide range of à la carte dishes…

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Concert November 2010

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Dieter

Here is a picture and a review of our concert at “Club der Wiener Musikerinnen” (Vienna women musicians’ club), founded 1886. This was a members only event. You will find the review in German language on page three.

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Mes amis ecoutez l’histoire

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dieter

Recorded September 2010. Although I had a slight cold, these recordings are nevertheless quite okay…

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A passage to India

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dieter

“Thali” literally means plate. In this case Thali stands for a set menu with mixed dishes on one plate. Usually there is rice, bread, yoghurt-salad, and three different dishes. As entrée you get a soup (mostly lentil or clear vegetable soup).

Lentil soup with Indian spices

Thali plate with rice, bread, yoghurt-salad, vegetable curry, beef dish and lamb dish

If you want the full monty Indian taste, I recommend “Chai” as beverage, which is black tea with foamed milk and Indian spices (ginger, cinammon, cloves, cardamom, etc.)

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As fast as a speeding bullet

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Dieter

This is for the railway enthusiasts out there. The Japanese bullet trains do not literally travel as fast as a speeding bullet, however sitting in a train and watching the landscape fly by at 300 km per hour is still quite impressive.

On the main trunk line between Tokyo station and Hakata (Fukuoka) there are three types of trains: Nozomi is the fastest (up to 300km/h) and the one with the fewest stops; Hikari is second (up to 280km/h) and with slightly more stops; Kodama is third (I think almost as fast as Hikari) and stops at every station. So if you live in or near a smaller city close to the shinkansen line, you can hop on a Kodama and at the next big station you just change to Hikari or Nozomi.

I have never been on a Nozomi train, since passengers holding the “Japan rail pass” are not allowed to use it; Hikari still got me anywhere I wanted to go super fast…

New N700 series Nozomi shinkansen

700 series shinkansen