Release Date: 29 November 2024
Label: Paladino Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120040737375
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This album gathers together works written for Clare Hammond over the past eight years, two miniatures from 2011, and Hesketh's six-movement Poetic Conceits, which pre-dates their friendship. Four include memorial pieces, two are birthday gifts, while another celebrates new life. As a group, they illuminate the different strands that make Hesketh's work so rich, compelling, and endlessly fascinating. This is music that rewards repeated listening, whose multi-faceted layers and intricate patterns reveal new associations with each encounter. Both she Hesketh share a certain frenetic mental energy, which he expresses in his composition. In turn, her playing style has influenced the way he writes for the piano.
'As with all things well-crafted and built on a foundation of finely honed expertise, these pieces have a quality of permanence and necessity, and there is nothing superficial or thoughtless here, in both the compositions and the performances.' – Music Web International
'An enchanting, challenging, engaging album, superbly played, with first rate sound.' – International Piano
Tracklisting
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Gottfried Rabl, cedag quartett, Ineo Quartet, Ludwig Lusser
Clare Hammond
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Martin Rummel, Mari Kato
Martin Rummel, Alexander Hulshoff
Eric Lamb, Conor Nelson
Maria Kubizek, Christoph Berner
Anne Harvey-Nagl, Julia Maria Sliwa
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
