Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang ... The five-movement “Miroirs” is a microcosm of this album’s strengths and weaknesses. The birdsong of “Oiseaux Tristes” has ...
The landmark recording—which came from a concert in Cologne, West Germany, that almost didn’t happen—is a work of gorgeous, stream-of-consciousness pianism.
Bava: There's so much on this new album, it's so beautiful, and the piano solo version, so stunning. Was there a song that has a story attached to it, of getting over the last hump of finishing it?