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April 8, 2026

The Land of Creation

(An artist’s manifesto)

That shimmering light, so intense,

a mirage of water on desert sand?

An oasis of freeing wind, I sense,

its comforting caress with velvety hand.

Those strangling vines, so dense,

a shadow plunged into sunlit, dreamy strand?

A breath of air, true water, I quench,

my thirst of home, in visionary land.

This truth, so hungry for coherence,

a cutting blow that breaks a fragile band?

A humbling core, in its prominence,

from seeds of dust and pollen, I stand.

–JF

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January 29, 2026

The Alchemy of Art

Bach is like an alchemist in his music, pouring different matter and emotions into a vessel, evoking and making them visible through expression, transforming and developing their reactions through dialogue, and ultimately conjuring the full potential of their existence – with his deeply affectionate discipline and creative intelligence – into Golden Beauty.

J. S. Bach: Prelude in D Minor BWV 899

J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Prelude in D Minor BWV 899 (ca. 1720 or around 1725–26)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Recorded in January 2026

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music: Handwritten copy of Bach's original manuscript by Peter Kellner (1705–1772), written ca. 1727 or after. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany

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November 8, 2025

J. S. Bach: Fughetta in D Minor BWV 899

J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Fughetta in D Minor BWV 899 (ca. 1720 or around 1725–26)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Recorded live in November 2025

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music:  Handwritten copy of Bach's original manuscript by Peter Kellner (1705–1772), written ca. 1727 or after. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany

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October 22, 2025

The Dance With Innermost

(Love Poem for Humanity)

Look at the peculiar dance of existential survival

the cryptic figurine battling and hobbling in the mist

dangling unsighted and pulled by invisible rival

numbing its innermost in a tangling and fending twist

Listen to the echo of that clumsy, angular step

the impulsively fleeing dash along adjusted pirouette

the icy cracking of mirrors that opened the dimension of depth

for the unheard, still aching chord by its darkest silhouette

Feel the paradoxical rhythm through fields and layers waving

fluttering within burning flames and frozen crystals falling

primordial, inherited forces surrounding, attracting, repelling

the nucleus, the dearest, the most trustful innermost’s calling

The figurine, the human species, the anxious orphaned child

struggled to raise itself, despite lacking parental eyes

was left with complex mind of burdened energy running wild

waited, beyond ice and fire, its loving heart without disguise

–JF

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July 7, 2025

Chopin is going wild 

A new addition to the Chopin@Home recording series – the rebelliously wild Prelude in B flat Minor, Op. 28 No. 16, recorded live in August 2018. The Prelude was once intended to be played at a particular piano exam. Well, here it comes, a little late, and from the meadows of glittering dragonflies.

Chopin: Prelude in B Flat Minor, Opus 28 No. 16

Chopin Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849): Prelude in B flat Minor Opus 28 No. 16

Jasmin Fors, piano / Live recording in August 2018

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music: The first French edition by Ad. Catelin et Cie, released in August 1839

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June 25, 2025

Can you hear the little clavichord singing?

“Its voice too fragile and shivery

to reach the stars and heavens above

captured its strength and soulful whispery

expressed all tenderness and earthly sob”

J. S. Bach: Præmbulum (Prelude) in D Minor BWV 940

J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Præambulum (Prelude) in D Minor BWV 940 (1726/1727 or after)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Live recording in June 2025

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music:  Handwritten copy of Bach's original manuscript by anonymous, probably Johann Baumbach. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany

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May 7, 2025

A pianist exchanges thoughts with George Orwell

“If people cannot write well

they cannot think well

and if they cannot think well

others will do their thinking for them”

– George Orwell

“If I cannot play well

I cannot feel well

and if I cannot feel well

others cannot do it for me”

– JF after Orwell

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March 8, 2025

“I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.” – Eugene Delacroix

The effect of Background Colours

Surrounding the notes with mathematics, poetry and fantasy.

J. S. Bach: Præmbulum (Prelude) in C Major BWV 924

Dedicated to Vesa Lakkinen

J. S. Bach: Præambulum (Prelude) in C Major BWV 924 (1720)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Recorded live in March 2025; 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

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February 3, 2025

”Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.” –Chopin

Ciphers – The Equation of Life

All these notes / energetic and restless / awaiting their destiny / invitingly yet frighteningly measureless

From paradoxical stimulus / then came the root / which started to swing / their boat of truth

Remained oscillating within primal interval / from cold system of hierarchy / into its inevitable opposite / of passionate and fiery anarchy

Exchausted and overloaded / poor notes began to ease / and as attracted by safer swaying / they developed to diminish their extremes

Even tensions and releases got meaning / en route to harmony and unity / with a twinkle reflected the ciphers of notes / deeper order warmth and beauty



J. S. Bach: Præmbulum (Prelude) in E Minor BWV 941

J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Præambulum (Prelude) in E Minor BWV 941 (1726/1727 or after)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Live recording in January 2025

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music:  Handwritten copy of Bach's original manuscript by anonymous, probably Johann Baumbach. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany

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November 28, 2024

J. S. Bach: Præmbulum (Prelude) in A Minor BWV 895

J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Præambulum (Prelude) in A Minor BWV 895 (1709 or before)

Jasmin Fors, piano / Recorded in November 2024

Video edited by Lauri Toivio

Video sheet music:  Handwritten copy of Bach's original manuscript by Peter Kellner (1705–1772), written between ca. 1726–1740. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany

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© Jasmin Fors 2026