
Janos Solyom is a highly popular presenter of classical music on TV. His somewhat un-Orthodox way of transforming the Gods of Music into "ordinary" human beings makes the music "stick" in a very special way:
Demonstrating and illustrating the explicit sexuality in Liszt's Mephisto-Waltz or Beethoven's digestive problems as shown in the Appassionata never fail in their effect. Neither do Satie's mania for umbrellas or Alkan's untimely death caused by an umbrella stand in his own kitchen...
Tidbits like these in conjunction with piano playing at its best make Janos Solyom into a well-nigh unique phenomenon on the TV-screen.
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