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Grazie di cuore per le gentilissime parole e per l'ascolto, un caro saluto! Thomas & Liudmila

Thank you for your truly kind words, I am happy you are enjoying this. All the best, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words, I am happy that you are enjoying these interpretations and particularly the C sharp minor! All the best to you, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for your truly kind words and for listening! All the best! Thomas

Thank you for your truly kind words! I don't have a full-time performing career, with only a few select events every few months. But thanks for asking! Any major events will be posted in the "events" section on my website. All the best! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind interest! Any major events will be posted in the "events" section on my website. All the best! Thomas

Thank you for your wonderful words, I'm happy this recital is meaningful to you. All the best, with blessings! Thomas

Dear Milton, as always, I am so deeply honored by your words and your comments; thank you wholeheartedly! Yes, this work certainly belongs to a series of pieces in which I explored an extremely dilated musical time, in a movement from emptiness to fullness, from darkness to hope - as you so rightly point out with your insightful words. Once again, thank you so much, I truly look forward to sharing more music with you in the near future! With deep gratitude, Thomas

Gentile Antonia, come sempre ti sono grato per l'ascolto e per le tue gentilissime parole - è sempre un piacere ricevere i tuoi commenti. Grazie di cuore, un caro saluto! Thomas

Carissimo Luca, ti ringrazio di cuore per le tue gentilissime parole, un grande abbraccio e a risentirci prestissimo al telefono! A presto! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words, all the best to you! Thomas

Thank you for your truly wonderful words and for listening! All the best to you, with blessings! Thomas

@ThomasSchwan Did you recorded WTC I as well?

Yes, back in 2019. It is in my channel! Thank you for your truly kind interest, all the best! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly wonderful words! All the best to you, with blessings! Thomas

Carissimo Paolo, grazie con tutto il cuore per l'ascolto per le tue straordinarie parole. Un abbraccio! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly wonderful words! I am happy and honored that this interpretation is meaningful to you. All the best, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for your absolutely wonderful words!!! I'm happy that this interpretation resonates with you. With gratitude, Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words! All the best to you! Thomas

Thank you dear Walter! So happy you are enjoying this interpretation, too! All the best and talk soon! Thomas

Thank you for listening to this, too, and for your truly kind words! Such an interesting insight to link the A-B-D-C theme to the four notes of BACH; in a 4-note theme there is perhaps some sense of cosmic completeness (the four corners of the Cross, the four cardinal points). At a conscious level, I believe had linked it with the first 4 notes of the finale of Mozart's Jupiter (C-D-F-E), but transposed in A minor. But all of these themes may be coming "from the same source", so to say. Thank you again, all the best! Thomas

Good morning! Timestamps of individual Nocturnes are in the video description. All the best, Thomas

Thank you for your wonderful words, and I feel truly humbled by the mention of Michelangeli's name. I am happy this interpretation resonates with you! All the best to you, with gratitude, Thomas

Breathe and whisper. Yes! That's what Schwan hears and evokes. So exceptional.

@jamesbell7220 What wonderful words - thank you wholeheartedly! All the best! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your kind words, I am happy this interpretation is meaningful to you! All the best, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for your truly kind words, I am happy this interpretation is meaningful to you! All the best to you, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your kind words! All the best to you! Thomas

Thank you for your wonderful words, I'm happy this interpretation resonates with you! All the best, with gratitude! Thomas

Thank you for your kind words, I am happy this interpretation is meaningful to you! (Also studied from the Henle...) All the best to you, with blessings, Thomas

@ThomasSchwan do you have an audio recording of this performance?

Alas, for now only here on youtube. All the best! Thomas

Dear Milton, I am truly grateful for your wonderful words and always thrilled by your comments. You mention timelessness and infinity: what a joy for me to know that this work managed to resonate with you with such depth! Once again, thank you wholeheartedly - all the best, with blessings! Thomas

Grazie a te Raul! A presto! Thomas

Gentile Antonia, grazie di cuore per l'ascolto e per le gentilissime parole, affascinante il tuo commento, anche dal mio punto di vista vi è in effetti un aspetto puramente "temporale" in questo brano, una considerazione della realtà del tempo in se stesso, che porta ad una sorta di circolarità. Grazie ancora, un caro saluto! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words, I'm happy that this interpretation is meaningful to you! All the best! Thomas

Thank you for listening, all the best to you! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words! I hope to be back in Boston in the near future - any updates will be posted on my website or here. All the best, Happy New Year, with all blessings! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your words, it is a joy for me to know that this interpretation is meaningful to you. All the best! Thomas

Too kind, thank you for your wonderful words and for listening! All the best, Happy New Year! Thomas

@@ThomasSchwan All the best and a Happy New Year to you as well. It is me who says a big thank-you! In the forte phrases, you show power and a fierceful conviction, whereas, in the piano phrases, your most delicate touché makes me think of someone tenderly caressing his most beloved. Miraculous. Many thanks again.

Truly honored by your words! Thank you once again!! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your kind donation, and I am truly happy that these interpretations resonate with you! Regarding learning and memorization, I can do nothing but offer advice on what can be seen as a "pyramid-shaped" process: start from one prelude and fugue, and work on it for a long time, until it is completely mastered. Also, become able to play it both at the piano and in your mind, with incremental accuracy. I have personally spent a lot of time "thinking" these pieces, under tempo, note by note, both hearing and visualizing each note on an "inner keyboard", and also imagining the movements and the touch. After mastering one, proceed to three; after that, learn six; if you can learn six and play them in sequence, you can play 12 and then 24 - I deem it as completely possible for any functioning human mind, and I think it is mostly a matter of organization, discipline, and self-awareness (awareness of one's unique mental and learning processes). Also, fugues should be also studied in separate parts, coloring the voices and playing them separately, as musically as possible. Just a few thoughts, not easy to distill this in a few lines, so feel free to ask any more questions here or also via email, if you think I can be of help! My pleasure! All the best to you, and all my best wishes on your own piano work! Thomas

@@ThomasSchwan Thank you very much! I never expected such a detailed and honest response. It's very interesting, and I will definitely give it a try. I wish you success and hope to attend your concert one day.

Thank you, happy you are enjoying this interpretation! All the best, Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly wonderful words, I am happy this interpretation resonates with you! All the best, Thomas

Dear Vanja, thank you so much for your truly wonderful comment! I am so happy this work resonates with you! Yes, the virtual choir is both an opportunity and a limitation - but I am happy if, even just partially, it managed to transmit the vision of the work. Talk soon! Thomas

Thank you for listening and all my best wishes on your piano journey! Happy New Year! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your truly kind words, I'm happy to hear that! Wishing you a speedy recovery - all the best, with blessings, Thomas

Dear Carlos, thank you for your truly wonderful words! It is a joy for me to know that the interpretation of both the Nocturnes and the Well Tempered Clavier resonate with you. Thank you wholeheartedly! All the best, with blessings, and Happy New Year! Thomas

Thank you for listening and for your comment, I'm truly happy that this interpretation resonates with you! All the best, with blessings! Thomas

Thank you for your incredible words and I am truly happy you are enjoying this interpretation! All the best to you! Thomas

Dear Paul, great to hear from you and I feel truly humbled by your words. I am happy you are still enjoying these interpretations. Your words as always mean a lot to me and are tremendously positive and encouraging on a spiritual level. All the best, with blessings and Happy New Year, Thomas

Thank you Vanja! These Hamvas quotes are opening up new horizons for anyone stumbling on these pages...

Thank you for listening and for such incredible words! I feel truly humbled! All the best, with blessings, Thomas

Dear Marc, thank you for your immensely kind words and for listening! Absolutely, I'd be truly honored to receive the score of Rêveries Baroques from you. What a wonderful gift, thank you! My email address is on the contact page of my website (I'd post it here, but youtube might delete my comment). All the best, with blessings and Happy New Year! Thomas

Gentile Antonia, grazie di cuore per l'ascolto, che splendido commento - un caro saluto! Thomas

Thank you for your truly kind words! All the best to you! Thomas