If you enjoy Russian music as much as I do, you must get this. Chances are that most, if not all, of the music will be new to your ears. There is a fair amount of Scriabin's influence here, but very little of the Slavic melancholy associated with Rachmaninoff. Maria Dolnycky has selected very fine music in many styles and given it all the best performance you could ask for. The composers (Liatoshinsky, Revutsky, Ishchenko, Barvinsky, Shamo, Silvestrov, and Kosenko) were all new to me except Silvestrov. The works were composed between 1908 and 2001. They range from melodic little trifles, reminiscent of Satie (Liatoshinsky's 1943 Prelude) to Silvestrov's First Piano Sonata and Ishchenko's Poetic Moods, Book I (a suite of seven pieces). Perhaps the most enjoyable of all are Ishchenko's Four Waltzes and Just a Touch of Chopin, where the composer manages to subtly suggest hints of well-known Chopin waltzes in his own modern compositional style, only to confirm things by giving a more direct quote of Chopin at the end of each piece. The range of styles calls for a wide range of touches. Whether it is a singing melody over accompaniment, or complex modern piano textures, Dolnycky's pianism is up to every challenge.