Monumental set of six piano sonatas.
This is stunningly beautiful music that treats the history and tradition of the piano sonata with the highest reverence and yet also creates something new and achingly simple from it all. The music is issued on Houben’s own Diafani label, which in a little more than a year has issued an incredible twenty-one releases if you count the four new ones that arrived here this last week. Of those that I have been able to spend time with so far though, 6 Sonatas for piano stands out as my favourite, and the past week I have spent wallowing in its dense, rich minimalism have been extremely rewarding. - The Watchful Ear
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Eva-Maria Houben / piano.
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Recorded by Gerhard Raschke, Tonstudio TU Dortmund (Germany).
