Roger Muraro Essentials

Roger Muraro has a decent claim to be one of the great interpreters of 20th-century piano music, having recorded the complete works of both Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messaien, the latter under the tutelage of the composer’s wife Yvonne Loriod, and with personal endorsement from Messaien himself. Here, his virtuosic and vigorous readings of Liszt and Chopin find him reaching back to the romantic era, applying the same sort of flair as he does to their post-impressionist successors, breathing new life in Debussy studies, and unravelling the complexities of Messaien with breathtaking ease.