In the beginning

Manuel

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I was 6 and I would not go to bed without listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. I think that's how it started.
After the ballet suites the cd was filled with the first piano concerto. But the work seemed boring to me; so I programmed the cd player to skip it. A few years later I gave the piano concerto a chance; and I fell in love with it for its grandiosity (and the middle section in the first movement, where the woods play ascending arpeggios and scales, evoked the image of bubbles ascending from the bottom of an almost enlightened sea; and I could not stop listening to it).

For many years I just borrowed cds from my sister and dad. During the last three it became more like a sick obsession and I get as much cds as I can, with focus on rare works, obscure composers and interpreters.

Manuel.
 
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