“Beyond the gate they roamed freely, the most beautiful and precious things of art and life—untouched, unforced, undistorted—yet so distant and difficult to approach. They were the things that revived the deep and purifying undercurrents of man, opened the windows of understanding and the locks of the heart.

‘Why are you there and I'm here?’ Homo creativus had asked on the other side of the gate, and felt a heartbreaking longing.”

Dedicated to Someone

J. S. Bach: Præambulum (Prelude) in G Minor BWV 930 (1720 or before)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Recorded in October 2024; Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music: Original manuscript by Bach, from “Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach” (“Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach”), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, USA