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Piers Hellawell: Airs, WatersSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO With sources of inspiration ranging from the self immolation of Czech student Jan Pala in January 1969 to the lost Etruscan language and the sculptures of abstract expressionist David Smith, the full breadth and depth of Hellawells compositional preoccupations are represented in authoritative performances by some of his closest collaborators. Alongside chamber and solo piano works sits the clarinet concerto

the musicologist François Lesure held him to have been one of the most important French composers of his era

"Fires of Love are an accomplished group whose cohesion and sense of common purpose are palpable

Clarke’s very human concerns focus and inflect Woolf’s approach to the religious texts

they speak to us as strongly as ever

Recording dates: 7-8 October 2015

There's plenty of technical control in the choir's singing

with which the recital ends

Album ID: DCD34145

and the disc also features three items from the Caius Choirbook – a handsomely illuminated manuscript

written for Mr McFall’s Chamber and their bassist Rick Standley

and yet his thought-provoking insights expose the music's essential pulse with alarming dexterity and inherent energy

this is more than compensated by the strength and conviction of these superbly clear and articulate performances of some of Messiaen's most rhythmically and texturally complex music

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