"Christopher Czaja Sager trekt in deze Clementi-opnamen het dynamisch net dicht om zich heen om daarbinnen een eigen wereld van vloeiend evenwicht te scheppen. Een prachtig subtiele uitvoering." Sem van Gelder, redacteur Pianowereld About LAI In the last years artist-directed and owned recording endeavours have taken a healthy place in the classical music world (Gruberova, Pavarotti, Earl Wild, come to mind). Lapwing Artist Issue had its first release in 1990. That CD, 'European Anniversary Recital', revealed Czaja Sager's well-known eclectic and provocative repertoire: the 3rd Partita of J.S. Bach, lesser-performed Schumann, late Haydn, Schoenberg and a hint of what will appear in 2004: a Scriàbine recital and a 'live' recital from various cities, featuring C.P.E. Bach, rarely-heard Mozart and Ben Weber. 'Muzio Revisited', LAI's first Millennium release, refers to the artist's earlier CD-album 'Remembered Anew' (1992) devoted to 3 Sonatas of Clementi; the major recording of LAI of the entire 1st Book of Bach's Clavier-Übung, the 6 Partitas, appeared in 1993; it was released daringly in 'purist'-cembalo territory, the Netherlands, 3rd on the 10 best-selling list of CDs for 2 months as NKV's 'CD of the Month' in 1994. The Steinway Piano: the sublime Pianoforte of unparalleled Perfection Since my first lessons and subsequent conservatory training, the Steinway piano has been central to my pianistic development and experience. With one exception, all my teachers have played the Steinway. Some of my most memorable concert experiences are indelibly-linked with the greatest pianists, who preferred the Steinway and who, each in his own inimitable way produced extraordinary music on this noble instrument. Among the most vivid memories, recitals by Curzon, Hess, Horowitz, Kempff, Michelangeli, Novaes, Rubinstein and Solomon still echo in my ear! For many years I have been privileged to own a remarkable 1907 New York Steinway grand and since 1999 the realization of a dream: an exceptional Hamburg Steinway concert grand of greatest finesse and poetry. Recently I have had the joyous privilege of recording 8 Sonatas of Muzio Clementi in my Music Room on this extraordinary concert grand. These magnificent instruments give me daily joy and inspiration! What's more, they instruct and reveal new insights in all music for the pianoforte. Even with fine 'pretenders to-the-throne' Steinway remains King of the pianoforte: vive le Roi! Christopher Czaja Sager, Eibergen, NL 2003