Kenneth Hesketh: Hände - Music for Piano
Kenneth Hesketh
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Release Date: 29/11/2024
This album gathers together works written for Clare Hammond over the past eight years, two miniatures from 2011, and Hesketh's six-movement Poetic Conceits, which pre-dates their friendship. Four include memorial pieces, two are birthday gifts, while another celebrates new life. As a group, they illuminate the different strands that make Hesketh's work so rich, compelling, and endlessly fascinating. This is music that rewards repeated listening, whose multi-faceted layers and intricate patterns reveal new associations with each encounter. Both she Hesketh share a certain frenetic mental energy, which he expresses in his composition. In turn, her playing style has influenced the way he writes for the piano.
1: I. Epigram
2: II. Of Silence and Slow Time
3: III. Epigraph
4: IV. Cold Pastoral
5: V. Mad Pursuits
6: VI. Epitaph
7: Pour Henri
8: Heu, Heu, Heu
9: Hande
10: Chorales and Kolam
11: Lullaby of the Land Beyond
12: Auszuge Aus Einem Kleinen Totenbuch