In his CD “Dream Images”, pianist Svetozar Ivanov takes us on a journey enclosed by two pieces by George Crumb – Rain-Death Variations and Love-Death Music. Inside this journey, the music guides us from the romantic and fantasy-like world of Alexander Scriabin, through the enigmatic stillness of Luciano Berio, to the hammering hyper expressivity of Galina Ustvolskaya. With unexpected transitions, connections, and returns, this CD is like a dream in which, as the quote by Borges that serves as program notes suggests, “we are wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity…..”.