Bach & Chopin: A Conversation
‘Chopin helped me understand what harmony and counterpoint are; why the fugue is equal to pure logic in music, and that to be versed in the fugue means to know the element of all reason and all logical consistency in music.‘ (From Eugene Delacroix’s diaries) Chopin not only deeply admired Bach but also considered his […]
Summer Preludes
Composer Joey Roukens about his Summer Preludes: The Summer Preludes are a piano cycle of a number of preludes and an epilogue. These pieces were written during the summer of 2020, one of those hot, erratic summers that we’ve seen more and more in recent years, with a long heat wave in August, but also […]
The Wagner Project
With pianist Filippo Tenisci. Wagner/Pringsheim: Wotan’s Abschied und Feuerzauber from Die Walküre Wagner/Pringsheim: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung Wagner/Pringsheim: Charfreitagszauber, Verwandlungsmusik & Schlußszene (Uit Akte III) from Parsifal