GIA MARGARET : Romantic PianoAt first, Gia Margaret called her 2023 album 'Romantic Piano' to be a bit cheeky. Its spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegu Maryam Gubrou and the 'Marginalia' releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a cozy and candlelit 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

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