“Ever since I was a child, I have cycled past Liszt’s house almost every day…that is why it felt completely natural for me to begin my musical journey on record in Weimar.” Justus Eichhorn, Pianist, Composer, Arranger – 2026 Eichorn must obviously have caught Liszt fever while as a child he says, he cycled by
Artists and Venice. Bringing to mind the revered masters who rest in the big sleep there – the Bellini brothers, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese for example – you can then move on to those other well-known, such as of Canaletto and Guardi and then remember those other famous artists who fell in swoon with the city
“It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.” Franz Liszt As an example, looking for a spellbinding moment, I listen to Reminiscences du Don Juan de Mozart as played in our modern times by pianist Lang Lang in the link
As a child the very first musical instrument that recorded in my ears was a piano. Sadly, though I do have a great ear for music, it turns out for me that I have no dexterity with my hands to play piano or any instrument for that matter. But any version of a keyboard sound
When you think of all the Lennon & McCartney songs in the Beatles catalogue, you can tell which ones had the hallmark signature of John Lennon in their conception. Tenderly you can remember In My Life and Julia, achingly Nowhere Man or Yer Blues or pictorially Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! There were
Let us remember those who died 110 years ago in the WW1 Battle of the Somme 1916, and also those who were badly wounded and could not, or would not speak of what they witnessed and endured. This is a reworked post of mine dedicated to one such a man who survived. It is a