Kagel: Rrrrrrr...: Ragtime-Waltz

This disc was shaped by the encounter between one of the great composers of our time, Mauricio Kagel, a unique and engaging pianist, Alexandre Tharaud, and some of his close chamber music partners. It reaches out to its audience with a great sense of humour and tenderness.

One senses something here of the seriousness of an enthroned power, namely humour, and a certain, almost audible tenderness towards the listener. Alexandre Tharaud, together with his principal chamber music colleagues and his closest friends, gives unusual performance of Kagel’s music, an interpretation which provides a new discovery of the essential and impeccable nudity of musical emotions.