Two basic problems move (in both senses of the word) human beings in the 21st century: the fast pace and the complexity of the choice of products – not just cultural ones. In the music world, including the classical, modern man “lives“ simultaneously in diverse epochs, listening to a jumbled up mixture of different styles. He must be able to grasp things more and more quickly or to make a selection from an ever increasing mountain of compositions.

My programme tries to come to terms with this situation and sketches a “caleidoscope“ of musical epochs with the focus on classical piano music, presenting it in a concentrated form, as a short episode, an aphorism, a dictum. A game with brevity and smallness but that turns the miniatures into something large – a whole concert evening full of scintillating pieces.

...a short phrase versus an extremely extended one – another attempt to direct the view from the detail to the whole and vice versa. Chemically bleached piano music challenges the listener – and perhaps in the end we will have travelled all around the globe

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DDD, 2012