Knowing the past

I've just been listening to a recent find, the LA drum/vocals duo Knower, and in some way I wonder if Robert Schmidli's concert is somewhat of the same stunning effect for another era.  Admittedly a very very different era, but Beethoven was a genius and a stunning appearance on the scene and maybe Bach was all encompassing and inventive and Chopin, too, I guess.  Maybe I'm pushing the story too far.  But check out Knower and here's my take on Robert's gig.  The music was Bach, Beethoven and Chopin on solo piano.  Nothing unusual there, but the works were early ones and inventive, Beethoven adding a fourth movement to the piano sonata form and perhaps a romantic aspect to the music, being dedicated to a contessa, and Bach's was perhaps a little old fashioned, as if anything can be bad form from Bach, with various section and fugues and variations and repetitions and changes of tempo and dynamics and more.  And Chopin, who usually misses me, was a pleasure, perhaps political with a Polish uprising against the Russian emperor and a quoted Sleep little Jesus huddled within.  I immensely enjoyed each one for its interest and performance as I don't always enjoy solo piano to this extent.  Strange, because  admire the instrument, being an orchestra in a box, but I can be somewhat overwhelmed given exactly that.  The pieces were Bach Toccata Dmaj BWV912, Beethoven Sonata Eb op.7 no.4 (Grand sonata) and Chopin Scherzo Bmin op.20 no.1.  I enjoyed them all.  Thanks to Robert.

Robert Schmidli played Bach, Beethoven and Chopin at Wesley,