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ARTISTS

Douglas Finch, Piano
Website: http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/student-staff-area/staff-biographies/douglas-finch
Continuum Ensemble,
Website: http://www.thecontinuumensemble.co.uk/index.html
Philip Headlam, Conductor
Website: http://www.rcm.ac.uk/about/stafflisting/profile/?id=jk425

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COMPOSERS

Roger SMALLEY
Frederic CHOPIN
Johannes BRAHMS

DESCRIPTION

The acclaimed Continuum Ensemble and pianist Douglas Finch in a selection of Roger Smalley's recent chamber and solo piano works: the disc includes the Piano Trio, Clarinet Trio, Chopin Variations, and piano quartet Crepuscule, togther with the Chopin mazurka and Brahms intermezzo which provided their inspiration.

 

REVIEWS

"This collection of chamber pieces shows that Smalley has certainly made his peace with the great tradition that he and so many of his contemporaries rejected in their youth... But the result is never tired neo-romanticism, but far more bracing, for Smalley has refracted that harmonic and gestural world through his own principles of organisation, creating a genuine and highly personal tension between that background and his invention."
The Guardian 2004

FUNDING

RECORDING CREDITS

Recording date: 6-7 July and 17-18 September 2003

Recording venue: St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Engineer / Producer: David Lefeber 
Editing & mastering: David Lefeber

Cover image: Francois Hall

(P) 2004 NMC Recordings Ltd

Catalogue number:
NMC D083
Release Date:
6 January 2004