“… Micheli turns last to the music of Maurice Ravel … La valse , in the solo piano version … From the swirling phantasmagoria of the opening pages to the evolving influx of light in the music’s development. Micheli maintains the nervously tragic pulse of the work, which, like all of Ravel’s dance forms, explodes in a paroxysm of its own momentum. The kaleidoscope of color and nuance achieves a fluent, kinetic energy that swells and retreats with erotic suggestiveness, a tour de force to end what has already proven itself a potent demonstration of keyboard proficiency…”