Chi Ho Han/piano • Maoshan Connie/illustrator • Aura Music • 2025 Hong Kong
The first time in my life that I recorded my curation, like a piece of art and not just a CD. Had the Little Prince stayed on B-612, dwelling in his peaceful but repetitive daily routine, the whole adventure disappeared. What is your dream? Did you ever fly with a flock of birds to chase an invisible goal? Have you met one of those people who inhabited his one pathetic planet, awaiting bypassers to cross their lives, like those around Shostakovich?
Three repeated notes work particularly strong for the Fox – at three o’clock, its heart starts anticipating. It leads to the four beginning notes in the Unique Rose. The cello sonata was a work for two, and Volodos magically unified them in one pianistic soul, in the same way he accepted Rachmaninoff’s language of beauty and thorns into his own.
Let’s leave the rest to music. Logic is there, if it arouses your interest in the background of creations and creators. But I shall end my words here.
Chi Ho HAN 