John Woolrich's Pianobooks form a fascinating ongoing collection of intimate, small scale inventions for the piano. Often woven around codes and ciphers, with beguiling titles like ‚Take Wing', ‚Distant', and ‚Over the Sea', these short works (often no longer than one or two pages) are ideal teaching pieces, economically conjuring emotional worlds in a rich but easily-graspable musical language.
‚A kaleidoscopic mixture of spiky wit, lightness and dark menace” sparse in notes but deep in atmosphere, undeniably modern but with the ghosts of the past tiptoeing through them.'
Joanna MacGregor