“Bach has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. One of my first musical memories is of my father seated in front of the record player at home listening to a Bach cantata. I did not yet share his passion for that music, however, preferring the lighter, more spirited Italians Vivaldi and Corelli to the often more serious German, for whose profundity I was certainly not yet mentally equipped. My affinity to Bach developed gradually, but therefore all the more profoundly. Today I see his works as wonderful, unique unions of intellect, emotion and spirituality that fascinate me new every day.” David Theodor Schmidt