I do not intend to evaluate the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in any form here. The basic situation for me in this respect is very simple: I have not been able to identify with any intellectual argumentation or analysis, for I have always had a feeling of incompleteness. No superlative seems sufficient to me. Regarding the tunes of Bach, the saying that music begins where the word ends is the truest one for me.

The piano pieces featured in this recording reflect in different ways on the question: “What is beautiful?” They answer the question by laying hold to the forces of our mind and soul and restructuring them in a peculiar, unexpected manner. If these pieces are beautiful then - by listening to them - we become able to exist in the beautiful and by the beautiful, without knowing or even needing to say more. We marvel at the many faces, the varied character and content of beauty. It is fascinating to discover how many things can be beautiful, how many contexts, experiences, thoughts and emotions feed into what we call beauty in music. Music has many faces and reflects and presents beauty in a multitude of ways.