Fred Frith describes the Swiss pianist Katharina Weber as a "piano icon". The classically trained pianist and composer moves in the large world of today's music, where borders no longer exist and new music and jazz improvisation merge. In M�rta's Garden is her second solo album. The musical framework is formed by two piano pieces by Gy�rgy Kurt�g dedicated to M�rta Kurt�g and at the centre is his composition "... eine Wanderung mit Robert Walser... ". The exchange with the Kurt�gs, which has now lasted three decades, has left intensive traces in Katharina Weber's work - as a performer, as an improviser and as a composer. Like Kurt�g, Weber creates her own sound cosmos. Inspired by intimate listening in meditative contemplation, not shying away from tonality, but emphasising colour, tonal tensions and overtones - at the same time an invitation and space for deeper listening, pondering, spinning forth," writes Nina Polaschegg in the liner notes.
