Metier
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Rhona Clarke’s music on this disc covers a wide range of expression, and throughout...reveals a composer of rare gifts... I have found this CD...to be fascinating and in many ways quite original...... —
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Thank goodness the bad old days are over when it seemed politically incorrect to play Bach on the piano. A very special disc... Katharine Durran's name was as unfamiliar to me as her playing,... —
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A programme of subtle and absorbing sounds. Despite the occasional clustery outburst, Michael Finnissy's piano style envelops bristlingly ornamented, irregular melodic lines in a haze of sustaining... —
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Gráinne Mulvey: The Tyndall Effect
Nathalia Milstein (piano), Thérèse Fahy (piano), Isabelle O’connell (piano), Martin Johnson (cello)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, The Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble, Gavin Maloney, Sinead Hayes
Performances are as fearlessly committed as this music necessitates, with sound of unsparing definition and immediacy...It duly adds up to a fascinating, disconcerting but engrossing listen. —
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Forget new complexity: some of the music on flautist Richard Craig’s second Metier disc might simply be called post-everything. When there’s no tonality, no melody and few pitches, what exactly... —
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You might think a piano cycle lasting more than five hours is asking too much. But when the music is as endlessly fascinating, engaging, challenging, puzzling, beautiful, thought-provoking and... —
