Her curiosity, her thirst for discovery, and her audacity have led her to cultivate eclecticism, to follow paths less traveled, and to take us to places where we might not have expected her to go. Deeply committed to the process of creating new music, she has also developed a passion for the minimalist movement and a notable penchant for music stripped down to extreme starkness. From her many immersions in often hypnotic sound worlds, Vanessa Wagner has emerged a different person—freer and more willing to reveal herself. And so it is that today she offers us what is probably her most personal recording, a program she developed over two long years, constructing an imaginary, fantasized narrative based on miniatures by Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Glinka. The pianist becomes the author and narrator of a story of shadows and light.