Animations is a collection of pieces focusing on lively rhythms and sparkling articulate music – not all of it at faster tempos. There are goblins and grasshoppers gypsies and witches; Grieg and Goldschmidt co-exist with Horne and Hummel; there is entertaining and sometimes unfamiliar music by Scarlatti Schumann and Chopin. There is dance music a plenty as you would expect in an album devoted to movement and as well as a waltz and a mazurka there is a gigue by Reger and a galop by Casella. Piano Moods is an exciting new Piano series from Boosey & Hawkes. Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey& Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.

' La musique adoucit les moeurs ', Je ne compose pas pour illustrer ce dicton, mais il se trouve que dans les moments de liberté, c'est cette musique, caressante, douce, mélodieuse, qui me sort des doigts et me fait du bien, Les réminiscences des grands compositeurs romantiques sont évidentes mais rarement intentionnelles, - Moderato cantabile- Valse éphémère- Hommage à Schumann- Canzonetta- Papillons- Mesto I- Mesto II- Choral- Duo- Intermezzo / Piano