Robert Saxton: Piano Music
In its bell-like sonorities, clear textures and ritual manner, the piano music of Robert Saxton (born in London in 1953) suggests an almost oriental fascination with light and the way light refracts and diffracts – and yet it is audibly music written by an Englishman. In the two Books of Saxton’s Hortus Musicae in particular, this fascinating confluence generates a soundworld somewhere downstream from Takemitsu and Tippett, giving these gardens of music both a ceremonial dignity and sense of spring growth.
Clare Hammond, piano
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- Chacony for Piano Left Hand (1988) Audio Player
- Sonata for Piano (1981)
- Hortus Musicae Book 1: I Hortus Somniorum Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 1: II Hortus Temporis Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 1: III Hortus Cantus Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae: Book 1 IV Hortus Infinitatis Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 1: V Saltatio Hortensis Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: I The flowers appear on the earth
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: II Light on the Water Garden Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: III The Garden of Changing Perspective Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: IV Beech Bank Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: V Light on the Hedgerows Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: VI The Garden at Dusk Audio Player
- Hortus Musicae Book 2: VII Hortus Animae Alis Fugacis Audio Player
- Lullaby for Rosa (2016)*
Hortus Musicae, Book 1 (2013)*
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Hortus Musicae, Book 2 (2015)*
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*FIRST RECORDINGS
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