This recital explores the ravishing resonances of Debussy (“Reflets dans l’eau” from book 1 of “Images”) and Ravel (“Une barque sur l’Ocean” from “Miroirs”) alongside nostalgic bell-like calls of Messiaen’s blue rock thrush darting over the waves (“Le Merle bleu” from the “Catalogue d’oiseaux”). Berio’s evocative and understated “Wasserklavier” (“Six encores”) gently glides along in half-remembered fragments, and the dark …
Gothic
This programme presents meticulously crafted works by living composers from Ireland, UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand in context with the great keyboard masters of the Baroque, Romantic and 20th Century periods. Mysterious, dark or playful in turn, each piece offers a glimpse of a different world and teaches us that the music of the present is inseparable from the …


