MIRRORED

A1_Philip Glass - The Poet Acts - 04:55 A2_Moondog - Sea Horses - 01:15 A3_Ryuichi Sakamoto - Solitude - 04:28 A4_Phillip Glass - Etude 2 - 07:09 FACE B - 20 minutes 50 B1_Philip Glass - Etude 4 - 03:58 B1_Nico Mulhy - Quiet Music - 05:01 B2_Camille Pépin - Number 1 - 08:50 B3_Léo Ferré - Opus X - 03:01 French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored. Quickly following March 2022™s Study of the Invisible album, Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colours. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich. And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities. Performing solo, exposed to timbre, tempo and clarity, many of the pieces here - such as šSea Horses› by (Vanessa™s one-time mentor) Moondog or Philip Glass™ šEtude 4› - demand virtuosic abilities as a performer and interpreter. But in Vanessa Wagner™s hands, they are not only made her own, but made mesmeric and magical by the sensitivity of her touch.