Recording Correa (October 2019)
I am at the end of a fantastic week in Andalusia: since last Tuesday, I spent 5 full days in recording organ pieces written by Francisco Correa de Arauxo some 400…
My life with Bach’s music
Text written for The Bach Cantata Website (BCW http://www.bach-cantatas.com). My oldest memories about Bach’s organ music go very far into my childhood: when I was very young, my parents, my…
About the beautiful and uncomplete Choral Fantasia “Durch Adam’s Fall ist ganz verderbt” by Jacob Praetorius
Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony is still one of his most popular pieces. And if Bach’s last Contrapunctus in “The Art of the Fuge” is uncomplete, its performance finishing “in the…
What role for the artists in our society?
Speech given in Palermo at the Association européenne des Conservatoires. It is a great pleasure to be here in Palermo, the city of King Roger and of so many great…
Appeal for a Europe founded on its culture
Now that the European Union is welcoming ten new member states, we, artists and cultural leaders, wish to appeal to the leaders of the nations and governments, and to members…