New. Reformation
Keyboard Works By William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021 album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s...
New. Reformation
Keyboard Works By William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021 album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s...
About
‘Encountering a palace of riches’ is how pianist (and Hyperion debutante) Mishka Rushdie Momen describes her experience of playing Tudor keyboard music, a varied selection of which is included here. It’s a description which could apply equally to the listener discovering the music in performances as convincingly idiomatic as these.
Contents and tracklist
- Reformation
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Mishka Rushdie Momen
23rd Jul 2024
Choosing to play Renaissance keyboard repertoire on the piano is a brave choice - especially for an emerging talent making their debut on Hyperion, a label famed for having a roster of fine pianists. Mishka Rushdie Momen discusses why she did exactly this, and some of the things that shape her as a musician.
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Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation
5th Jul 2024
Mishka Rushdie Momen makes a highly enjoyable Hyperion debut, playing Renaissance keyboard music on a modern Steinway grand piano, with subtlety of tone and phrasing that brings new perspective to the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Gibbons and Bull.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week5th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Early Music
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Sunday Times20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
September 2024
Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021 album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s freedom and flirtation with anachronism, but I find this album exerts a stronger emotional appeal.
5th July 2024
Rushdie Momen achieves an ideal balance between utilising the tonal and dynamic possibilities offered by the Steinway Model D she plays, without ever imposing the scale of the instrument on the music, such that the modern piano sounds like a natural home for these pieces...In short, there is much to explore and enjoy here.
4th July 2024
Rushdie Momen is virtuosic in the dense variations of Bull’s Walsingham, introspective in Gibbons’s darkly beautiful Lord Salisbury Pavan, and always weaving the music through with fine-spun threads of trills and embellishments, lightly worn. It’s beautifully done.
4th July 2024
Rushdie Momen’s stated hope is for these fantasias, pavans and complex ruminations on popular songs to became part of the modern pianist’s canon...She further enhances the repertoire’s profile by interpreting the music with clarity and a natural ease never compromised by her myriad subtleties of dynamics, touch and tone.
