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This beautifully and tenderly observed portrait on the death of the Chinese pianist Fou Ts'ong is all the more moving in remembrance now, another Wimbledon anniversary. His friend, this prominent Polish trophy engraver, also my good friend,  tragically left us on  November 15th 2023. How he would have adored engraving the Venus Rosewater Dish (below) with the name of the first Polish women's champion in history, -  Iga Świątek. Life is just not fair .... but he would have got the accents correct ! Details of his Wimbledon engraving work and the remarkable effort of driving his rare, classic MGA  Coup é   every year from Poznań to Wimbledon (832 miles or 1338 kms one way) was covered by the Financial Times in an interview with him in 2014. Read it via the link below. https://on.ft.com/2BUFnCy Roman's classic MGA  Coup é   (1955-1962) We shared a passion for classic cars and not only music and pianists of the highest caliber! The Żółtowski home in ...

  'Begin with Bach' The Bach House in Eisenach [Bach's birthplace] Thuringia, Germany A quite extraordinary J.S.Bach portrait as generated  by computer (not AI) from his skull, contemporary paintings and descriptions The Bach House in Eisenach [Bach's birthplace] Thuringia, Germany We begin and end this year's 'Chopin and his Europe' Festival with Bach.The brilliant composer, who occupies a very important place in the Chopin universe, will also be present in an important, sometimes in an unobtrusive way, on each day of the festival events. The programme of this year's Festival is created with the intention of presenting Chopin's works in a multifaceted context of music from Bach to Lutosławski. The 29 concerts will be filled with Polish and European music in the interpretations of traditionally two stylistic trends: contemporary and historically informed. An important aspect will therefore be historically informed performance, represented in 2025...