On my recent tour to China I was asked to include Chinese tunes in the program. I didn't know what to expect. How would the music sound, how would the audience like it? As I played these tunes there was one, that started embedding itself in my mind. I am used to having music in my head all the time. These tunes come and go, some stay longer, but this one kept haunting me. It pretty much became the 'film score' to my entire China tour…

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If someone were to asked me, what recordings I would take to a lonely island, I would  put on top of my list Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” (Winter Journey). 

Some of the songs in this cycle are folk melodies, others offer deeply philosophical words of wisdom, and the accompanying piano becomes a companion on this winter journey highlighting and deepening the words of the poetry…

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Here I am, sitting on a train from Switzerland to Germany, playing on my travel piano. Honestly, I thought I was done with it. After the initial excitement wore off, the foldable keyboard sat untouched for months—I was even about to donate it.

At first, I was thrilled by the idea of having easy access to a keyboard while on tour. But that excitement gradually faded.

Some of the original pros still hold up…

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