My latest travel to Vienna: Chamber Music Concert in the most beautiful city of Europe

My latest travel to Vienna: Chamber Music Concert in the most beautiful city of Europe

Vienna is the unique city where a classical musician feels really at home. There musicians aren't regarded as freak of nature or so. Vienna is also a very competitive city to play in. I always thought Vienna was kind of decadent city belonging to history and past...which is quite ironic to think, given that I come from Florence...but I was proven wrong.

Vienna is the elegant European city that still claims its power.

We arrived in a very rainy day and it took all our strenghts to cope with the weather. Luckly for us we plaied that very night so that we didn't have to walk through the city under the rain.

To organize and prepare for a concert, to take off, to land on a foreign city, to cope with other mentalities....all of this makes you feel very vulnerable. You never know how you will be received, who will be attending the concert, who will care about you in a familiar way.

So you develop a mental setting in which, whatever is going to happen will never surprise you that much. But you are still a human being, so you get feelings, emotions, sometimes very strong ones, but you try to absorb it in a way this isn't drawing your attention away from what you really have to do.

After having seen the place, the venue, where you can comfortably change of clothes, and other basic staff, only after this, time starts running so fast that I believe that it will be going to choke all clockes which are in the room.

Then the thrill comes. The heart starts beating in a crazy way, but you look calm, acting in an effortless way. You know you will get troubles breathing, but you know you are stronger of all of this. The heart remembers that you are human, but your brain is reminding that you STUDIED, you manage it, you won't be perfect, but you will fight to get close to perfection.

This is Duo Resonare Fibris (Lisa Gambacciani-Lucie Croce) approching the stage before the concert.

THEN MAGIC HAPPENS. You fear the moment, but you are misteriously attracted by it. The concert is started. Everything else has disappeared.