Black Orpheus, the solo piano CD from Japanese-born pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, may be the starkest, loneliest music in the world. There is a sense with Sunrise that Kikuchi was withdrawing, going into ...

Black Orpheus does not sound to the bottom of the deep well of the past. But reaching almost effortlessly back to Hellenic time, it suffuses the carnival in Rio de Janeiro with a timeless mystery. The ...