Barber/ Kennard - American ClassicsFor his debut album on Delos, the brilliant emerging virtuoso Sean Kennard has chosen a captivating program featuring solo piano music by two of America's most iconic composers: Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. While neither composer's body of work includes a great many pieces for solo piano, each has left a legacy of superb piano compositions to memorable effect. Of the five works on this album, Barber's finger twisting Sonata for Piano and Copland's

deep black cover artwork was designed by Indonesian artist Bahrull Marta and underlines the songs' dense atmosphere and great depth focus that supports the actual theme of the album: the desire to simply disappear

There is the strange

This recording is dedicated to the memory of the dead and to the Armistice of Compiègne

He was rightly inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017 and there could be no more fitting example of his achievement than an album that sounds impressively fresh 50 years after it was made

When Napoleon's troops invaded Hamburg in 1810

impressionistic piano and even the occasional wind chime

Robert Jr Rex - See The Big Man Cry

homage to the land and Kichwa tradition

One to watch

Acclaimed by German and international critics as an "incredible talent" and a "true master of the piano

casalQuartett and Razvan Popovici set a magnificent sounding monument to the great Swiss

But all in all Light Field Reverie is something else