Helen Grime: Chamber Music

Seven Pierrot Miniatures, commissioned by the Ensemble in 2010, ranges from dream-like melancholy to mischief and mania in its response to moods derived from Albert Giraud’s moonstruck symbolism. Harp of the North, for solo piano, and the string sextet Into the Faded Air move beyond their extra-musical stimuli (evocations of the natural world prompted by the poetry of, respectively, Walter Scott and T.S. Eliot) into purely musical explorations of texture and melodic patterning, while four other works for a variety of instrumental duos and trios reveal inspirations ranging from the painter Joan Eardley to the ‘outdoor’ associations of the French horn.

1: The Clouds
2: Decor
3: Absinthe
4: Suicide
5: The Church
6: Sunset
7: The Harp
8: I.
9: II.
10: III.
11: I. With Freedom
12: II. With Energy
13: III. Very Still
14: IV. Moto (With Energy)
15: I. Suspended, Dreamlike
16: II. Gently Flowing, Sweetly
17: III. Dark, Lamenting
18: IV. Exuberant - Very Still
19: V. A Slow Processional, Always Distant, Restrained
20: Harp of the North
21: I. Freely
22: II. Rhythmic and Exuberant
23: III. From a Distance
24: I. Con Moto
25: II. Lento
26: III. Agitato
27: IV. Grave

Composer: Helen Grime

Number of Discs: 1

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