Faded Gardens is not a conventional recital. It is an immersive evening of neoclassical piano built between the pianist and the room. Around the pieces from Gabriele Baldocci’s album, memory and improvisation open the music outward, and the audience becomes part of what is played. Feelings, recollections and quiet surprises find their way into the sound, so the evening takes shape in the moment and exists only once.It is intimate and emotional, closer to a shared experience than a performance. People have walked out calling it “transformational”, and “better than therapy”. For an audience that has been listening to this music on record, it is a chance to finally live it in the room, in its most personal and unrepeatable form.