Claude Debussy:
- Clair de lune
- La soirée dans Grenade
Frédéric Chopin: Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57
Bela Bartók:
- Evening in Transylvania (from Ten Easy Pieces)
- Romanian Dances, Op. 8a, BB 56: No. 1
Arnold Schoenberg:
- Erwartung (from 4 Lieder, Op. 2 - arr. Eva Barta for piano)
- Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm (from 4 Lieder, Op. 2 - arr. Eva Barta for piano)
Jean Sibelius: Die stille Stadt {The Silent City} (from 6 Songs, Op. 50 - arr. Eva Barta for piano)
Alexander Scriabin: Etudes, Op. 42: No. 3 in F-Sharp Major
Sergei Rachmaninov:
- Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5
- Prelude in C-Sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Johannes Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117
Kurt Weill: Tango, "Youkali" (version for piano)

There are many, actually too many collections like this inundating the market. With paltry titles like "Music for Relaxation", or "Nocturnal Sounds" or even "Easy Listening Classical Music", they usually all contain the same oft-repeated titles like the Moonlight Sonata, Clair de lune, a couple of Chopin Nocturnes, trifles by Erik Satie, etc ... and all end up sounding the same. Now here, aside from the Clair de lune by Debussy, all of the pieces curated for this collection are rarely heard together and more importantly, broach the personification of dusk and nightime from differing and unusual perspectives.

Born to Hungarian parents in Transylvania, pianist Eva Barta evokes a wide range of emotions and imagery in this crepuscular assortment of works from composers as varied as they are similar in outlook. Her insightful interpretations bring the essence and emotive provenance of each one to the surface. From a child drifting away into sleep in the Chopin Berceuse, to moths fluttering to and fro in darkness and light in the Scriabin Etude, to the nightmarish feeling of standing still whilst running in the Romanian Dance by Bartók, to the autumnal atmosphere of the Intermezzi by Johannes Brahms. And oddly enough, and most out of character for the composer, is the piece by Sibelius based on a poem about a city shrouded in darkness.

Conceptual albums like this are generally monotonous or completely lack focus, and fail to keep your attentive listening from start to finish. It would seem that Eva Barta has ingeniously concocted the formula to prevent this type of affliction.