Poet János Pilinszky wrote of Bach: “He is the most modern composer of our day. Both eternal and hyper-modern, or more accurately: we have the greatest need of him. In his music, in his methods there is not a drop of romanticism, nor nostalgia, no shadows or half-witted dialectic. No pursuit, only a result! No back-chat, only the current at the centre, the power of the core, the pulse. Music that is the principle of heaven, proof that there is life without conflict, indeed, that without conflict the dynamism of life is at its greatest and most exciting.” It is as though Zoltán Kocsis’s Bach interpretations of the past few years were conceived in this spirit. On listening to the orchestral suites one critic wrote of the “intoxicating will to live, the emanation of a virtually constant Bachian rhythm of joy.” Prepare yourself!