Blaze is a record of (mostly) solo piano music by Alice Ping Yee Ho played by Christina Petrowska Quilico.  There are eight pieces on the disk adding up to just over an hour of music.  It’s quite varied.  There are pieces like the title track which are colourful and intricate with others like “Shade” being slower and, perhaps, more lyrical.  It’s all highly virtuosic requiring not just excellent orthodox technique but quite a bit in the way of extended technique.  It needs more than technique too as this is music with a lot going on that needs to be interpreted sensitively.  The performances are really impressive.

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