'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 in pen when there was time to do this). I was 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 lasted from 09.00 am to 11 pm. There were 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. Miodowa Street, Warsaw - Bernado Bellotto (1722-1780) Now that the competition is over and if you are interested in Chopin's youth in Warsaw, the period of his stile brillante works, you might like to watch these documentary films of me strolling aroun...
