Robert Saxton: Piano Music

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Catalogue No: TOCC0458
EAN/UPC: 5060113444585
Release Date: 2018-03-01
Composer: Robert Saxton
Artists: Clare Hammond

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

Listen To This Recording:

  1. Chacony for Piano Left Hand (1988)
  2. Sonata for Piano (1981)
  3. Hortus Musicae, Book 1 (2013)*

  4. Hortus Musicae Book 1: I Hortus Somniorum
  5. Hortus Musicae Book 1: II Hortus Temporis
  6. Hortus Musicae Book 1: III Hortus Cantus
  7. Hortus Musicae: Book 1 IV Hortus Infinitatis
  8. Hortus Musicae Book 1: V Saltatio Hortensis
  9. Hortus Musicae Book 2: I The flowers appear on the earth
  10. Hortus Musicae, Book 2 (2015)*

  11. Hortus Musicae Book 2: II Light on the Water Garden
  12. Hortus Musicae Book 2: III The Garden of Changing Perspective
  13. Hortus Musicae Book 2: IV Beech Bank
  14. Hortus Musicae Book 2: V Light on the Hedgerows
  15. Hortus Musicae Book 2: VI The Garden at Dusk
  16. Hortus Musicae Book 2: VII Hortus Animae Alis Fugacis
  17. Lullaby for Rosa (2016)*

*FIRST RECORDINGS

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