An exciting pianist and an avid explorer of new and unusual repertoire, Clare Hammond has performed and recorded piano works that are off the beaten path or have special need of a champion. Hammond was an active participant in many activities in the 2014 centennial celebrations of composer Andrzej Panufnik, and this album of the solo piano music of Panufnik and his daughter, Roxanna Panufnik, is one of the fruits of her labors. Andrzej Panufnik was not a prolific composer for piano, and only three of the selections on this ...
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An exciting pianist and an avid explorer of new and unusual repertoire, Clare Hammond has performed and recorded piano works that are off the beaten path or have special need of a champion. Hammond was an active participant in many activities in the 2014 centennial celebrations of composer Andrzej Panufnik, and this album of the solo piano music of Panufnik and his daughter, Roxanna Panufnik, is one of the fruits of her labors. Andrzej Panufnik was not a prolific composer for piano, and only three of the selections on this BIS hybrid SACD are his alone, the 12 Miniature Studies, Pentasonata, and Reflections; the remaining pieces were a collaboration with Roxanna, Modlitwa (Prayer), and an arrangement by her, Hommage à Chopin, as well as her own keyboard pieces, Second Home and Glo. The performances are sympathetic and intensely virtuosic, often with dazzling runs across the keyboard, and Hammond is as comfortable with Andrzej's complex chromatic atonality as she is with Roxanna's modified and...
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