If Schleiermacher doesn't convey the Jazz Study's relaxed syncopation with total idiomatic assurance, he brings a lovely, undulating continuity to the darting linear displacements characterizing the second of the 1935 Two Pieces. It's quite different from Anthony De Mare's driving, Prokofiev-like conception. Listeners familiar with the prepared piano piece A Room (1943) included on Volume 1 in this series will be fascinated to compare it to the work's "unprepared" counterpart presented here. The former is mysterious and hypnotic, the latter sounds simple, aphoristic, and disarming. In sum, a delightfully varied program, exceedingly well played, superbly engineered, and graced with excellent booklet notes.