Dear friends,

So many of you have asked me “when will I hear you sing?”.  Very often I have replied “soon” but then never did anything about it anyway.

It is not easy, you know, to make a recording and send it over to the world wide web for anybody to listen. It is an eternal mark in the universe. I felt I will never reach the level of perfection to make that recording. At the same time I felt I owe a song to all the readers of “The Winning Helix”. And not only the readers of my book but also those people who saw me on TV saying that I dream about singing “Isolde” in Bayreuth one day. And of course all my dear friends and family who have so warm-heartedly supported me and my work.

Many of you know about my passion to Richard Wagner’s music and life. I have had the pleasure to visit Bayreuth operafestival two times and those times have been two of my most memorable moments in life.

This song, Träume, is Richard Wagner’s study for Tristan und Isolde. It is the fifth and the last song of the cycle to Mathilde Wesendonk’s poems, and it is the most beautiful of them all. You can hear the same theme on the 2nd act of ‘Tristan’.

Along with the song I wish to share my memories from Bayreuth. Enjoy!