Dorrit

William Shield rose from relatively humble beginnings to become the ‘house’ composer to Covent Garden, for which he wrote stage works full of panache and tunefulness.

New music is often enough hermetic and aloof? Not at all - when you see on Dorrit Bauerecker's new CD how the Cologne-based pianist, accordionist and performer creates clever dramaturgies. The look of the cover already suggests this impression: Your tools are accordion and concert grand piano, which is often "taken apart" - and where playful or tonal possibilities are questioned, what happens here on the toy piano and melodica.