Classical piano reinterpretations of Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Pixies and Moby might seem, on paper, just another slightly offbeat exercise in style. But since his Modern Rhapsodies (2005), Maxence Cyrin has made this into a personal manifesto. The French musician, a classically-trained pianist, who loves new wave and electro, adamantly refuses to discriminate between his tastes, as. His work shows how pop music has so deeply infiltrated our collective consciousness that its standards can now be considered as modern classics.