‘It is with certainty one of the most virtuoso pieces of all’, Stefan Vladar says about Maurice Ravel’s piano suite Gaspard de la nuit, constituting, so to speak, the main work on this Capriccio release. The pianist has worked the suite’s three movements diligently for more than two decades and also consistently studied Ravel’s other piano compositions, works that reflect completely different aspects of pianistic technical virtuosity and compositional aims. The journal Fono Forum has spoken of this Austrian pianist and conductor as “one of the most remarkable pianists of our age.”