"Pianist Alexandra Sostmann plays quiet music from the Baroque to the present. Don’t expect an easy, charming program. What the pianist plays is very demanding. The music captures us as if in a dream and transports us from the real world into a world of very different colors, full of strange sounds, played in an evocative way and expressed in a poetic language that sometimes doesn’t seem poetic at all, because it also encompasses darkness and night, grief and death.
Other pianists might have approached such a difficult program from the surface, avoiding what lies beneath. Sostmann has access to the depths; she plays in a different state of consciousness, so to speak, which keeps the listener’s attention away from external distractions and, through silence, provides access to a world into which one enters in deep meditation. Silence must be experienced. It is not enough to lie down and enjoy a pleasant atmosphere. Silence has many forms and also a disturbing side that can be felt in this program. Without the variety of silence there would only be emptiness. And Alexandra Sostmann has managed to avoid this in an exemplary way. She shares with us a good hour of fulfilled silence."
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