Today, a video of a great American composer, who already left us for 16 years. This document dates from January 1960 and shows us John Cage playing his Water Walk during the TV show “I’ve got a secret”. At this time, John Cage was an extremely controversial character in the music world and taught experimental [...]

Being in Prague and attending the conservatory, I’ve had A LOT of Dvorak… The New World Symphony, i.e. the ninth, is played everywhere. I hear it at least once a week. What it has to do with what I want to tell you today? Well I’d like to introduce you to David Christoffel, author of [...]

Each time I exhume the Chopin’s sonata in B-flat minor, I’m wondering what he had in mind while writing the final movement. Four pages of triplets as fast as possible, pianissimo finishing fortissimo. Strange, but I love it. What I love even more, it’s to take advantage of this final to play an atonal work just after. I don’t know why but moving on to Berio’s Sequenza IV from this nebulous last movement seems to me like the finest delicacy.