Piano music forms a large part of the output of the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (born 1959), as you would expect of someone who has been playing the instrument since she was four. This first album of her music reveals a latter-day Impressionist, sensitive to half-light and petal-delicate tonal colour – but she can also generate powerful surges of energy, and her musical portrait of Charlie Chaplin testifies to an impish sense of humour. © Toccata Classics