Mysterious piano sounds

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." This quote from Albert Einstein is Barbara Arens' motto for her book published in 2015 Piano Misterioso. In fact, her compositions give the player an inkling that another world is waiting for them behind the notes. Latin titles such as Gothicae ruin or Obscura luce take him to distant times and cultures and we look through the sounds, as it were, into our inner fantasy world, in which the past is still present and figures from legends and fairy tales exist in a very real way. - For all her poetry, however, the composer has managed to keep her feet firmly on the (pianistic) ground and not lose sight of her target audience. She deliberately tries to compose in a technically uncomplicated way, but still incorporates a wide variety of basic pianistic and musical figures into her pieces. The pieces are easy to grasp in terms of structure and are a welcome addition to the intermediate level literature.

Barbara Arens, Piano Misterioso, 28 magically easy pieces, EB 8883, € 15.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2015