Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Music for solo piano

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Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Music for solo pianoSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Best known for a series of works for solo instruments and orchestra including a highly successful concerto for his own instrument, the cello Haflii Hallgrmsson is also a master of the epigrammatic miniature. The piano music on this disc spans his career from 1963 to 2008, and the brilliant young pianist Simon Smith is a vital advocate of its varied colours, textures and resonances. "Simon Smith proves an admirable

Bermondsey

Helen began to find ways of redirecting her creative energies

that so much Englishness delivers such convincing and delightful Messiaen

Burnside and the other musicians

but this brave work gives powerful expression to powerful emotions and beliefs

"Too often pigeonholed as a 'Messiaen-pianist'

the resulting 80 minutes of music unveil a composer who is one of Ireland’s ‘invisible heroines’

and the performances here are consistently fine

By the Waters of Babylon and O Lord My God

difficult to play

responsive performances do full justice to these and other works

and many of the artists are ones with whom Hellawell has worked for some time