Romantic Piano

At first, Gia Margaret called her new album Romantic Piano to be a bit cheeky. Its spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou and the Marginalia releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a cosy and candle lit date night. But in that cheekiness lies hidden intention: across the gorgeous set, ‘Romantic’ is suggested in a more classic sense, what the Germans call ‘waldeinsamkeit’. Its compositions conjure the sublime themes of the Romantic poets: solitude in nature; nature’s ability to heal and to teach; a sense of contented melancholy.