Kudos to New Albion for issuing this great disc. Sarah Cahill is best known for her "new music" performances, but she clearly traces the roots of that music to its source with her recroding of Ravel. A great album worth repeat listenings.

This is an astonishing performance of one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire. Cahill manages to make the virtuosic sound meditative, which is what pianism at its highest can attain, when the body, able to surmount the difficulties of performance, takes its direction fully from the mind.

I love the way Cahill moves through the liquid auality of Ravel's music. She clearly has a great sense of the composer's intent. I listen to this CD often to relax and put the rest of the world in focus.