Metier presents Set Two for Piano from visionary composer Eric Craven, the latest in a series of releases showcasing his "non-prescriptive" method of composition. This unique method features different levels of notation allowing the performer varying degrees of freedom to manipulate choices around a set core. The composer states that his hope is "to reward any pianist with even modest ability with immediate success" (Pieces for Pianists Vols. 1 & 2) in creating something beautiful and expressive while also providing a challenge to more accomplished pianists to explore new territory.

Irish pianist Mary Dullea is Eric Craven’s collaborator on all these recordings and in Set Two for Piano she brings her long experience of realising Eric’s music to her wonderfully instinctive performance. This new collection offers 12 hugely enjoyable pieces that are more expansive than the previous Set, each plainly numbered without named titles. They reference a range of different styles, from toccata-like study to jaunty waltz, often with a backbone of jazz, and all varying from low-, middle- to high-order notation, the levels of non-prescription with which Craven presents the score. Low-order refers to music that appears with pitch and rhythm plus bar-lines; high-order is only pitches; and middle-order somewhere in between. There are no other details given such as tempo, time-signatures, dynamics, articulation, character, or duration.