...Maneval's cycle of 30 instrumental poems, scored for nothing more exotic than a solo piano, remains stubbornly and vividly in mind... Maneval... has been able to imbue each of his pieces, averaging about a minute in length, a musical character and sound-world of its own, while maintaining continuity and cohesion in a language of discreetly extended tonality that is at once challenging and attractive to the ear.