Release Date: 08 November 2019
Label: Prima Facie
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0712396065517
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
'Stolen Airs' is a collection of chamber works featuring piano works by the eminent British composer John Casken, performed by various artists including the Gould Trio and Kenneth Hamiton. This is a release with strong Mancunian connections as John was professor of music at the university for many years.
The idea of creating a CD of his chamber music in which the piano features in every piece (although a piece for solo piano is hardly chamber music) was the composers initial thought, and the range of pieces from 2002 (Piano Trio) to 2008 (Shadowed Pieces), to three more recent pieces featuring cello and then horn, as well as solo piano, created not only a nice sequence but also an interesting variety. The recordings took place in Cardiff University School of Music and at The University of Manchester in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, in which John Casken played a major role in creating nearly 20 years ago.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Stolen Airs for cello and piano makes a superb, haunting single-movement sonata. Serpents of Wisdom is an impressive invention for horn and piano; and Casken's Piano Trio is a powerful paraphrase of his Tolstoyan opera, God's Liar." Paul Driver, The Sunday Times
Tracklisting
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton
Michael Cretu
Laura Serra
The Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge & Will Sims
Helen Cawthorne
David Daly, Duncan Honeybourne, Ondrej Vrabec, Daniel Wiesner, Graham Walker, David Trippett
SWR Vokalensemble, IRCAM, Yuval Weinberg
Marco Fusi
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Bas Wiegers, Alessandro Baticci, Rafal Zalech
Sofia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Zwerm
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
Johannes Maria Staud, Boulanger Trio, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ludwig Chamber Players,
