Noah Max: Songs of Loneliness: Solos, Duos and Trios
Noah Max – born into a musical family in London in 1998 – has already carved out an impressive career as a composer and conductor; he is also an accomplished painter and a poet. For someone so young, the surprise of this debut album is the sense of loss unifying these pieces. The feeling of innocence forgone is characteristic of the music of many English composers in the first half of the twentieth century, Elgar, Finzi, Howells and Vaughan Williams among them. Max’s music is clearly of its own time, but it shares the elegiac lyricism of those earlier masters.
Raymond Brien, clarinet (track 5)
Philip Haworth, oboe (tracks 16-18)
Zoë Solomon, piano (tracks 1-4, 6-8)
Members of the Brompton Quartet (tracks 9-14)
Maja Horvat, violin
Kinga Wojdalska, viola
Wallis Power, cello
The Barbican Piano Trio (track 19)
Sophie Lockett, violin (track 19)
Robert Max, cello (tracks 1-4)
James Kirby, piano (track 15)
Listen To This Recording:
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Songs of Loneliness: Sonatine for Cello and Piano (2019–20)
- I Maestoso un poco mosso
- II Ruvido con orrore; senza misura
- III Like a warm lamp swinging softly through darkness
- IV False Dawn; finale
- Constellations for solo clarinet
- No. 1 Dusk
- No. 2 Sunset
- No. 3 Stars
- I Introduzione
- II Mysterioso
- III Furioso
- IV Intermezzo
- V Maestoso
- VI Finale
- It Comes in Waves (in memoriam Alex Ross) for solo piano
- No. 1
- No. 2 Moto perpetuo
- No. 3 Open and plentiful
- Vignette for piano trio
Constellations for solo clarinet (2018–19)
Sunset Sketches: Three Sonnets for Solo Piano (2020)
Sojourn (in memoriam Melanie Daiken) for string trio (2017)
It Comes in Waves (in memoriam Alex Ross) for solo piano (2018–2019)
Cornucopia: Three Bagatelles for Solo Oboe (2020)
Vignette for piano trio (2018–19)
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