Piano Landscapes

Composers, especially from the Romantic period onward, have sought to evoke places, real or imagined, in their music - from the awe-inspiring grandeur of the Alps in Liszt's Vallée d’Obermann to Debussy's shimmering pagodas, the heady sounds and scents of Andalucia or the exuberant play of fountains at Villa d'Este. Water provides much inspiration too – the rolling ocean or playful mountain streams – while winter landscapes are evoked in exquisite stillness, the delicate patter of snowflakes or the soft tread of footsteps in the fresh snow…..