Haydn/ Prjevalskaya - Piano Laureate SeriesHaydn's Andante con variazioni is a masterpiece of fantasy and expression in which the alternation of themes provides ever changing variety. Domenico Scarlatti's Sonatas revel in color and rhythmic vivacity with the G minor, K. 450 luxuriating in a 'Spanish Tango' of great originality. Robert Schumann told his wife to be, Clara, that the Sonata in F sharp minor, so rich in poetry and passion, was 'a cry from my heart to yours'. Marianna Prjevalskaya

are moments of silence and pensiveness

and they raised him to be deeply rooted in Argentina's musical traditions

hallucinatory strain of aural dread that draws from a strange mixture of twilight chamber music

and stuck a painting on the cover of a small

(Even when he takes a very slow tempo - as in the famous Variation no

and a handful of covers of Midnight favorites The Spits

And on the way I found desolation and fear but also power

There was plenty more going on besides: proto-house piano lines

and Peppermint Lounge

the album was recorded over two weeks with some of the songs written years ago around the camp fire on family holidays and some written weeks before hitting the studio

she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of deception where no one's motives are easily decipherable

ambitious orchestral passages