Credits:

Yumi Nara, Ryosuke Shiina

Description:

Yumi Nara, a soprano with an established reputation for her wide-ranging musicality in French songs and contemporary music, and Ryosuke Shiina, active in the fields of musical aesthetics and philosophy, on piano, perform works by Satie and Schumann in their final years, and by Montpauw, who continued to write throughout his life. Each piece is filled with a sense of foreboding about the relentlessly approaching "death," and it is possible to find many strange similarities in the works of these three composers, who historically and stylistically should have no connection at all. Cosima Recording