With Ornstein it is not so much the music but an unrealized aura: the hysteria that surrounded his perfomances, his walking away from fame to devote himself to composing, his stable and long lived family life. Granting dissonance is not for everyone, there are brief airs of musical interest, but they are lost in what can be described best as organized noises. After listening to this, one will be left with two impressions: a piano lesson with Ornstein must have been unrivaled, and it is better to have borrowed this CD then to have bought.