A voice imprinted on water – music and musicians
"What you are, you are by accident of birth;
what I am, I am by myself." ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
My earliest musical memory: the room was green and I danced on the table to Mozart, I think it was the Jupiter symphony, and in those sounds I heard the world around me took shape, all its curiousness and bewildering angles were suddenly rounded, polished and brilliant and I understood that I existed and why.
what I am, I am by myself." ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
My earliest musical memory: the room was green and I danced on the table to Mozart, I think it was the Jupiter symphony, and in those sounds I heard the world around me took shape, all its curiousness and bewildering angles were suddenly rounded, polished and brilliant and I understood that I existed and why.
Getting the gist of Liszt
“It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.”
As we launch ourselves into a brand new year we are also stepping out of the significant Chopin bicentenary into the year of his great peer, protégé and sometimes rival Ferenc Liszt, commonly known as Franz, who along with Chopin and Paganini remains unrivalled as the pin-up, romantic star of 19th Century music.
As we launch ourselves into a brand new year we are also stepping out of the significant Chopin bicentenary into the year of his great peer, protégé and sometimes rival Ferenc Liszt, commonly known as Franz, who along with Chopin and Paganini remains unrivalled as the pin-up, romantic star of 19th Century music.
