A suprising discovery
Matthew | Virginia | 12/11/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I took notice of Ms. Charlton's music years ago, when she was still a student at Cornell accumulating national prizes and magazine articles for her original music, not to mention her skill as an engineer. I weas lucky enough to see an article about her (in another state, I might add), followed up on some of the press, and bought a copy of this CD, which very quickly went on heavy rotation on my stereo. This woman is clearly a gifted pianist, but instead of applying her talent into the classical or jazz concert scene, she seems to have poured it into her own inventive and evocative compositions. They are quite original--sometimes as complex as the mathematics that inspired them, sometimes as resonant and melodic as love itself. Liz Story and George Winston get credit in the liner notes, and it's clear that their influence on her was more than superficial. If there's more where this came from, then before too long she'll be mentioned in THEIR liner notes too."