Scottish composer Dan Max invites you to explore 'Spaces' - a romantic and imaginative world influenced and inspired by the stories and music of Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven. Indeed, stories are important to this album, interweaving themes of love, war, family and fantasy. The opening of the album starts with '6/6/1944' and 'Irena's Passage', which were motivated by historical events during World War II. The former was created shortly after Dan and his wife Chiara watched the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. The latter was influenced by the story of Irena Sendler -- a brave Polish nurse who worked for the underground organization, Żegota, during WWII. A hero, Sendler helped smuggle 2,500 children to safety in German-occupied Poland. Following on from the Polish influence, 'Chopin Sees Paganini' sprang from Dan's imagination after reading the story of Fryderyk Chopin seeing the virtuoso violinist, Niccolò Paganini, for the first time. A welcome feeling of tranquility follows in 'Contentment' and continues with a dream-like quality in 'The Forest Spirit', succeeded by the playful 'Für Ludwig' -- inspired from Beethoven's classic 'Für Elise' -- and Dan's trip to Beethoven's birthplace of Bonn, Germany. The last songs on this album are about family, with 'The Travelling Mathematician' dedicated to Dan's father in law and 'Let's Skate', where Dan imagines the future of his daughter waking him up in the early hours of the morning in the winter to go ice-skating.