Album Review: The Vienna Sessions from Markus Burger
Album: The Vienna Sessions Artist: Markus Burger Label: Challenge Records Website: www.markusburger.com An ardent storyteller on the piano, Markus Burger strings together harmonious tales in his piano arrangements enlivening his latest release The Vienna Sessions from Challenge Records. His recent trip to Vienna, Austria proved to be an inspiring sojourn that ignited creative impulses and sparked a surge of poetic prose on the piano keys. Burger's meanderings form intertwining rings of melodic swirls, darting flickers, searing soars, and protracted lobes. The babbling brook personified by Burger's keys trickling across "Along the Creek" infuse a meditative atmosphere in the track, and embodies a Baroque-imbued vibe along the frolicking flicker of his keys ambling along "A Knight's Tale." Each unfold into a harmonious arrangement that keeps the listener spellbound. The dulcet strokes of Burger's keys evolve into glittery swells along "Caf...