Weber:
Invitation a la Valse

Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Miroirs

Liszt:
Feux follets, Les Jeux d’eaux a la Villa d’Este, Les cloches de Geneve

Scarlatti:
Sonatas, K141 & 119

Melvyn Tan embraces three centuries keyboard style tracing the inspirations for Ravel’s ground-breaking works for piano. By exploring new pianistic territory, Ravel mirrored Scarlatti and Liszt in experimenting and expanding the possibilities of the keyboard, now setting it free in highly coloured, impressionistic washes of sound which evoke situations, landscapes and characters.