"A new recording of ‘Música Callada’ is always risky as it requires delving deeper into the paradox that its title implies, the most powerful paradox that could exist within the art of sounds. To tackle this challenge, firstly the creator and then the listener have to reach a state of virginal purity, by which we do not simply mean innocence or mere asceticism. So, what are the conditions? I would say that it requires the extreme attention that can only be achieved through intelligence.

Proof of this can be found here, in Sira Hernández’s lucid style of playing by Sira Hernández. To achieve this degree of extreme attention, another virtue is needed, the same quality required by the musician from de very beginning, namely: humility."

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Extract from the text written by Clara Janés for the libretto of the CD ‘Música Callada – Frederic Mompou’