It’s been twenty years since the first public performance of Gregorio Zanon’s music. It was in 1999, in Geneva. The pianist Xavier Dami, who had encouraged Zanon’s early attempts at composition and helped him understand the expressive resources of the instrument, was at the piano performing Prayer Suite.

Seven years later, a first album was released by Claves. This snapshot of an initial creative period brought together musicians who were essential in helping the composer develop his artistic personality: the Quatuor Terpsycordes and cellist Mark Drobinsky (CD502606).

This new recording traces the history of the composer’s piano works through his meetings with the Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia. They share this double album, which bears witness to the impression of time on a free spirit who, instead of advancing along the ruts in the road of tradition, takes inspired risks to reveal himself to his interpreters and listeners.