Heidelberg Piano

Dear friends of piano music,  sometimes it takes me quite a while until I have found an emotional connection to a composer's music and can then play it. It was the same with Einaudi. I didn't understand them for a long time, these beautiful but simple melody patterns that are repeated over and over again, in which his music seems to be caught. I didn't find it monotonous, I found it more torturous. And then I heard a story on the radio that opened my eyes and made me find my way to Einaudi. It is the story of a woman in her seventies who had a very difficult childhood, then devotedly cared for others in her family and in her job as a social worker, only to then, after doing all this, set off on a great journey of freedom. She traveled the world in a car that was junk for German security needs, to countries whose culture and language she didn't know, she approached the people there openly, made friends and was free and happy. Then she unexpectedly fell in love, she moved...