'There are the notes, there is what is behind the notes and there is what is between the notes' Ignaz Friedman Profile of the Reviewer Michael Moran https://en.gravatar.c atom/mjcmoran#pic-0 My contribution is a modest one (and even anachronistically written down by pen when there is time to do this). I am much constrained by the mechanics of life - eating, sleeping, writing, my birthday (!) note taking during the long performance day and travelling from my home to the Warsaw Filharmonia which lasts from 09.00 am to 11 pm. There are two hours for lunch and aural rest from detailed and tiring analytical listening to these masterpieces performed by some of the most brilliant young pianists in the world today. During the course of the competition I attended 154 live performances I have always believed together with Joseph Addison , the distinguished and influential 17th century English essayist, that : 'A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellen...
