专辑简介

“Much has already been said and written about Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee's music, but to me its important quality is the conciseness of ideas; the Fourth Sonata Op.128 being a very good example of this.... Each part of the Sonata is an emotional world in itself, depicting in a few seconds, a lifetime's experience of love, passion, tenderness, anger, and even rebellion! ... Each performer has the freedom to display his or her technical and emotional brilliance; no struggle with the keyboard, nothing complicated, only the joy of playing. This Sonata holds treasures -- visible and hidden. It makes each performance a new discovery." Diane Andersen, Brussels July 10, 2004

"Hers is a compositional style in which neoclassicism and neoromanticism meet, along with an ethnic flavor - the influence of Armenian, her first spoken language... expressive intentions are straightforward to communicate feelings, whether through high energy or, more often, romantic lyricism. ... Rahbee's treatment of the keyboard is unfailingly pianistic....She has learned how to fit the hand to the keyboard and how to create liquid sonorities as well as occasional quasi-barbaric percussiveness. Her greatest ability as a keyboard composer is to create these pianistic results using relatively few notes. Thus, these pieces are far more accessible technically than most serious piano works of the 20th century." Piano & Keyboard (July/August 1996) Bradford Gowen