Labyrinth / Various

David Greilsammer's new album venture, Labyrinth, is a project that he has been developing since 2017 in a number of concerts given in New York, at the Ravinia

Festival, Illinois, in Lancaster and Sheffield, and at the Flagey in Brussels. In 2005, the pianist - then still in his twenties - released his Fantasie_Fantasme, and in 2014 he

uniquely intertwined the sonatas of Scarlat-ti and John Cage. Here in this sensitively intimate new recital he shares a dream that has haunted him for many years, a dream

where he makes his way through a musical labyrinth.

This programme has all the character of a rite of passage, but without any psychoanalytical frenzy. If David Greilsammer blurs conventional boundaries with his subtle

alchemy of atmospheres and colours, he also invites us to enjoy anew the pleasures of symmetry, balance and the echo. 'Love and Death' by Granados is a keystone work around which he conjures up a sequence of pieces of increasing density such as Scriabin's Vers la flamme which ends the recital. This creative programme, underpinned by playing both incisive and poetic showing mastery every conceivable style, prompts us quite simply to listen diffe-rently.