Adès Thomas Still Sorrowing

David Murray says 'Still Sorrowing', a lament which is also a homage to Romantic sentiments, proved to make the most ingenious use of a 'prepared' piano that I have heard in a long time. While a recurrent plaint tintinnabulates atthe top of the piano's range and deep chords resonate at the bottom, some muffling device allows intricate figures and rhythms at mid-keyboard to rattle hollowly; a haunting sound-scape and too strikingly musical to seemtricksy.'