Since my childhood, I have had a strong affinity with Bartók's music, which I found particularly honest and truthful from an early age. The time I spent with it gave me the opportunity to discover aspects of myself that I would otherwise have had little access to. The complete recording of Bartók's piano works gave me the opportunity to experience this music even more intensely than before and to better understand Bartók's artistic path, to recognize the young Bartók in the late composer and the late Bartók in the young man. At the same time, I wanted to make a recording that shows Bartók from different angles than those that are often emphasized." (Andreas Bach)