Sira Hernandez - Sira Hern�ndez: Initiation to the Shadow - Music for Piano

The distinguished Spanish composer and pianist Sira Hern�ndez is known especially for her involvement with multi-discipline arts projects at major international festivals and cultural events. Many of her works are inspired by Italian artists as can be heard on this album. Minimalist techniques and the significance of tonality and timbre in communicating darkness and light are heard in Iniciaci�n a la sombra and the sewing-machine ostinatos of Fantas�a para piano. The presence of God amidst the bleak spaces of madness are expressed in Terra Santa, and the intensity of Don�t Forget About That invites us to resist oblivion.