Julian Gorus´s relationship with the medium of the piano can be described, perhaps somewhat unfashionably, as "intimate". In his decisions on interpretation he wins the listener over with his gifts of communicating his own sense of the music, based on th analysis of each work and its text, and most of all with his purely manual proficiency. His dexterity is far over th average and reveals him to be not only pianist with a very sound training but a real virtuoso, meticulous yet unique in his way.

Auf Pilgerfahrt durch die Welt und die Welt des Geister

Liszt gelang es in den drei Bänden der Années de Pèlerinage im Sinne eines Gesamtkunstwerkes in bald kühnen, bald schmeichelnden, in schroffen, aber auch in musikantisch gelassenen Zügen und Formationen die Welt in der Brechung seines Erlebens abzubilden. Er nimmt auf diesen Fahrten seine Umwelt nicht nur schauend und lesend wahr, er scheint sie zu inhalieren und in einem wundersamen Prozess der Sublimierung in lautere, brodelnde, tobende, herbe, süße Klaviermusik zu verwandeln, als habe sich das Komponieren nicht als Kräfte zehrend ereignet, sondern als unbeschwerte, spontane Umsetzung des je Erfahrenen.

__________________Peter Cossé__________

A pilgrimage through the world and the World of the spirit

In the three volumes of the Années de Pèlerinage Liszt succeeded in capturing the world as reflected in his own eperiences in a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk ( a synthesis of the arts) in relaxed musical brush-strokes and formulations.                                                    On these journeys he takes cognizance of the world around him by more than just observing and reading; he seems to inhale it and transform it, by a wonderfull process of sublimation, into piano music that is by turns limpid, seething, wild, austere and sweet, as if the act of composing was not something that sapped him of his strenght but which became a carefree, spontaneous process of transforming his experiences into music.