A selection of works for piano offers music of utmost simplicity

Steven Osborne’s acutely sensitive pianism, aided by Hyperion’s recording expertise, superbly captures those elusive sounds as they shimmer on the edge of perception

One of this year’s finest CDs.

Three brief works by Morton Feldman, from 1952, open this hypnotic recital of music by two of the 20th century’s American greats. The first explores resonance and colour, the second concentrates minds on pitch and the third is about repetition.

What’s so marvellous about the way Steven Osborne plays Feldman is how entirely alert he is to those kaleidoscopic gradations...This is a pianist whose recent solo discs have featured music by Schubert and Mussorgsky, and he brings something of their singing and robust tones even to the most hushed and abstract of Feldman’s lines.