Clare Hammond
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Special offer. Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Diversions; William Walton: Sinfonia Concertante
RecommendedClare Hammond (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, George Vass
This is a valuable album indeed...each [work] is ripe for rediscovery and could prove rewarding for performers and audiences in the concert hall. They receive fine performances here from the... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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These are seriously demanding pieces, yet Hammond delivers them with a smooth and mellif luous touch, capturing the music’s twilit subtleties and silken textures as if it ’s second nature. While... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Michael Berkeley: Collaborations
RecommendedClare Hammond (piano), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Alice Coote (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano), Robert Plane (clarinet), Rachel Roberts (viola), Chris Hopkins (piano), BBC Singers, Joshua Ryan (organ), Neil Tennant (vocals), David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Owain Park
Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Grace Williams: Violin Concerto, Elegy for String Orchestra & Sinfonia concertante for Piano & Orchestra
Geneva Lewis (violin), Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martín, Ryan Bancroft, Jac van Steen
The Violin Concerto was recorded at a Prom in 2023, and it's a concentrated performance, with a strong sense of the impassioned lyricism of the opening movement. —
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The young British pianist Clare Hammond is fast building a reputation as a stylish interpreter of the new or less familiar... The real interest is the set of six Etudes by Unsuk Chin (b.1961),... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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A cycle of ten miniatures, the piece was commissioned by pianist Clare Hammond, who matches perfectly their balance of wonder, reflection and playful flashes of heat in coolly compressed, ambiguous... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Rarities of Piano Music at »Schloss vor Husum« from the 2024 Festival
Severin von Eckardstein (piano), Alfonso Soldano, Christian Grøvlen, Matthias Kirschnereit (piano), Patrick Hemmerlé, Clare Hammond (piano), Chiyan Wong (piano), Gottlieb Wallisch (piano), Saskia Giorgini (piano)
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LOOSENING (works by Graham Fitkin)
Simon Haram (saxophone), Ruth Wall, Graham Fitkin, Joby Burgess (percussion), Clare Hammond (piano), Sacconi Quartet
Ostensibly these are works for string quartet with soloist, but Loosening, the title track to this important composer-focused double album, feels more like a duet. There is light shining through... —
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The Art of Dancing
21st-Century Concertos for Trumpet, Piano and Strings
Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Clare Hammond (piano)
English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
The disc’s title work, composed by Toby Young, is a playful reimagining of the Baroque suite…Young’s score conjures gorgeous sonorities, particularly in the string writing, and is matched by... —
