The Classical Reviewer(Bruce Reader – March 17th 2015)
Pasticcio per meno ê più for piano (2014) is a gentle slowly evolving piece, exquisitely crafted, subtly developing with just a hint of Debussy in the more limpid piano lines. The music rises a little towards the end but soon returns to its more tranquil nature. It is beautifully played by Nicholas Horvath.
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Pasticcio per meno è piú, track 5, is a solo piano piece played with great sensitivity by Nicholas Horvath. A simple running melody above is supported by warm chords underneath and the feel of this is very impressionistic. The gentle touch on the keyboard nevertheless produces a wonderfully luminous sound and the overall effect is to be transported to a sunny day in the south of France. A variation at 4:00 has a more purposeful color, but Pasticcio per meno è piú concludes by reinstating the softer opening.
AllMusic.com(Blair Sanderson)
Quiet, lyrical expressions and subdued meditation. Waller’s unhurried and gentle music is well-suited to introspection…
Textura.org
Moments of lyrical beauty are plentiful. The South Shore—by turns impressionistic, autumnal, introspective—entrances the listener with one supple chamber-styled setting after another.
Splicetoday.com(Raymond Cummings – 25 September 2015)
"To be swept away on a rapturous wave, separated briefly from cares and aspirations alike; to be, truly, nowhere. Until Michael Vincent Waller and his piano tour the northeast, The South Shore (XI Records) will have to serve as a personal buoy. In particular, “Pasticcio” threads the somber and the ecstatic into a sweet, blood-pressure dropping tapestry, a five-and-a-half-minute allegory of grandeur, grace, and feeling certain to comfort anyone for whom now-pop registers, increasingly, as a mirror image of modern life’s heedless nihilism."
