The common challenges of the Kinderszenen and the Hammerklavier
The inexhaustibility of the great composers is such that we can only begin to scratch the surface of what they offered us, and connections and threads we haven’t previously noticed are bound to appear. Ideally, I would want to bring myself to the point where, on stage, I can empty my head of everything I discuss in this post, and all these connections would somehow instinctively emerge. When I go off stage, they would pop back into my head and I’d be reminded of how baffled I was when I first discovered them.