Adams, J: Phrygian Gates for solo piano

“[Mr. Adams] would surely like Mr. van Raat’s hard work and enthusiasm” New York Times

“The performances by Ralph van Raat…are a triumph of deceptiveness: that is, playing these pieces must require the utmost concentration as you count the bars past, avoid those little modifications to rhythm that a pianist will instinctively deploy to bring a performance alive, but van Raat obtains a near-hypnotic control in the two early pieces, almost mechanical in its reliability, and he bubbles with life in the later two” International Piano

"A disk that includes both the brilliant, fleetingly angular visions of Elliot Carter's "Night Fantasies" and the slowly shifting harmonies and often hypnotic rhythms of John Adams's "Phrygian Gates." Her gift in the Carter is clarity and an almost Romantic sense of inevitability and flow. To the Adams she brings variety of color and a sense for drama." --Allan Kozinn in The New York Times