‘Good Brahms is like char kway teow’, a friend once told me, ‘it is complex and has different layers, but too much of it when played the wrong way can make one sick of it’. Also, one of my benchmarks of good Brahms music would be whether or not the…
.. asked the piano teacher in our lesson this morning. Lessons with him are always funny, challenging, and ridiculous; and he always finds a way to throw me off-balance. Our lesson this morning had been no different. After making it to uni at 8.30am in the dark, foggy weather (climbing…
Nostalgia: A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past. I have always thought of the key of A Major as a bright, sunny and happy key; never before did I imagine that it could be used to evoke tragedy, gentleness and even nostalgia. The Six Pieces for…