I wrote this little paraphrase of the Gavotte from Bach’s Partita in E major twenty years ago. Actually it is a sort of double homage: on one hand, it is of course a tribute to J.S. Bach, whose miraculous, ingenious music surely must be one of the highest achievements of mankind; on the other hand, and closer to our time, I wanted to salute the early 20th-century virtuoso pianists whose unbelievable recordings have held me spellbound. These masters of the keyboard - Josef Lhevinne, Sergei Rachma...