As though he were an architect in sound – the architect of an ongoing Revolution of the Viaduct (Paul Klee) – this composer discovers in his piano pieces something which, for a master mason, might represent discarded corner-stones: the heart of the secret. It becomes apparent that in the pieces for solo piano – themselves like a collection of cornerstones in his output – a small collection of musical gems has come into being: crystalline, glittering, and utterly lucid both in form and appearance. The guiding and enlightening code for them might read: distillation by diminution. (Wolfgang Hofer)