Katharina Weber

Katharina Weber: Woven Time

by Nic Jones
June 22, 2009

Until she'd reached the age of seventeen, pianist Weber hadn't played the piano without having sheet music in front of her, but it's clear from this program that she's put in the effort it takes to acquire the improviser's gifts. Such, however, are the recorded precedents for solo improvising pianists that the business of staking out individual territory within the recorded canon is fraught.

In that regard, Weber fares rather well. The extraordinary reflection of “Sicht aus dem Kopfstand" is ...