I had a strange dream a few days (nights) ago.

The even stranger thing is that I remember it, as there was a time I was not remembering my dreams. Seems that lately it changed for some reason and I can recall them in the morning.

So, in my dream, I was said that we will all finish the journey we have in this world. You know what it means... our lives will finish. The feeling was not upsetting though. I still felt calm and accepted the fact that the world as we know it now will disappear. An apocalyptic scenery, but a calm one. Maybe we would not be exactly dead, but the question is where we would go then if that apocalypse happens. We would be dead, but not dead as I was given some instructions on a piece of paper about what to do when this end of the world happens. Unfortunately, in my dream, I didn't read the content of that paper so it stayed a mystery. Don't know... the part we would not be alive anymore but having instructions on what to do in that state is not going together... I said it was a strange dream. ;D

Maybe it was somehow connected to the composition I heard for the first time last week, played by my friend. He had a concert last Thursday and the day before it he asked me to go to his home and to listen to him. To be his audience. Like a mini concert, but just for one person.

He played a Haydn piano sonata, two ballads by Chopin, and one contemporary composition by a Finnish composer that was not fitting very well the program so we concluded that it would be best to leave it out of the real concert. As the last composition, he played a piece by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados. The title of it was El amor y la muerte (Love and death) from the suite Goyescas.

video source of another pianist that I found as a good interpretation.

He said before he started to play that he gets very emotional when he practices this piece. I know he does and why it really affects his emotional state. Love and death hit his life.

It is not very commendable that I did not know this piano composition before. When I was a student, we went through the most famous and lesser-known piano composers and their works. I'm sure I learned about this collection myself but my memory has kind of faded about it. Also, I haven't played many compositions by this Spanish composer. I did play some pieces, but nothing from the suite Goyescas... and I see now that it was a mistake.

As a result, listening to this composition in my friend's home and his performance was a completely new and outstanding discovery. I was amazed. A beautiful composition, full of passion, pain, life and death. Also, a very difficult piano piece from the aspect of technique. I was simply glued to the chair before the onslaught of these sounds that came from the piano. I expressed my total delight with several exclamations, I know he was not bothered with it, just the opposite. While playing, he was also pointing out some places that he especially felt close to him and the person he lost.

The last note ended and silence reigned. As if we wanted this composition to never end (which btw lasts for around 12 minutes. It is not a short piece.) A whole world was musically described there. Of course, we broke the silence just a few seconds later, I ensured him that he plays it perfectly (he really does) and we commented a few things about the composition itself.

Maybe it was a trigger for my dream, I don't know. Maybe the dream had nothing to do with this piece and no connection there. But coincidences are weird, as I have to mention that this composer, Enrique Granados had a true connection with love and death. After his tour in the United States, returning to Europe, the ship he was travelling with was detected by a German submarine. It was attacked with a torpedo. He was travelling with his wife and seems that he jumped into the water from the rescue boat to save her. They both died.

Anyway, I hope that the apocalypse from my dream will not happen soon (and if yes, I would read the instruction on what to do in that case 😂 ) but this composition for sure deserves to come here to this little inspired corner. What was the first trigger and inspiration...? Maybe just Granados knew while writing it.