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Sound Carvings
Piers Hellawell
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1029
Discs: 1
Sound Carvings
Piers Hellawell
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1029
Discs: 1
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A survey of the instrumental work of the Piers Hellawell the Hebridean and Belfast-based composer, played by two dynamic ensembles at the forefront of contemporary music performance. Hellawell's music has been influenced by two contrasting sources, Irish traditional music and Balinese Gamelan.
"Central to this engrossing, extremely well-played survey of the last decade is the Sound Carvings trilogy: music of vivid colours, imaginative juxtapositions and elaborations."
(BBC Music Magazine)
"Hellawell has a fine feeling for the 'grain' of instrumental sound that leads him, in a pleasing way, to shift the focus of the music at a moment when you are least expecting it. The fine balance he strikes between stasis and change perhaps accounts for his music's special sense of poise [...] All credit to Metronome for this useful introduction to the music of a composer who promises much for the future"
(Gramophone, December 1998)
"Central to this engrossing, extremely well-played survey of the last decade is the Sound Carvings trilogy: music of vivid colours, imaginative juxtapositions and elaborations."
(BBC Music Magazine)
"Hellawell has a fine feeling for the 'grain' of instrumental sound that leads him, in a pleasing way, to shift the focus of the music at a moment when you are least expecting it. The fine balance he strikes between stasis and change perhaps accounts for his music's special sense of poise [...] All credit to Metronome for this useful introduction to the music of a composer who promises much for the future"
(Gramophone, December 1998)