The very first notes of this CD are enchanting: the delicate sounds that Kanahi Yamashita draws from the strings of her guitar immediately transport us to a world filled with sounds and songs that illuminate the various facets between night and dream. In the songs by John Dowland and the variations by Sergei Rudnev, the darkness and depth of the night allude to death and its eternal silence. Frank Martins composition, Quatre pices brves, reflects both the tranquility and the restlessness of the darkness, much like Benjamin Brittens Nocturnal after John Dowland. The journey through the night concludes with the 1953 piece Alba by Swiss composer Hans Haug, whose gentle string sounds herald the dawn - the night ends and a new day begins. Full of hope, tenderness, and melancholy, qualities so characteristic of Kanahi Yamashitas playing.