Browse: Clare Hammond (piano)

These are seriously demanding pieces, yet Hammond delivers them with a smooth and mellif luous touch, capturing the music’s twilit subtleties and silken textures as if it ’s second nature. While... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The young British pianist Clare Hammond is fast building a reputation as a stylish interpreter of the new or less familiar... The real interest is the set of six Etudes by Unsuk Chin (b.1961),... — The Observer, 18th January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) More…

A cycle of ten miniatures, the piece was commissioned by pianist Clare Hammond, who matches perfectly their balance of wonder, reflection and playful flashes of heat in coolly compressed, ambiguous... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These two collections are enchanting: at once playful and serious, exploratory, intellectually vigorous and, very often, deeply poignant. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Performances throughout are excellent, and the sound never less than very good… This CD has definitely prompted to me look again at Robert Saxton’s whole body of serious work, and I hope it may... — British Music Society Journal More…

With all the fine pianism on show here coupled with the exploratory spirit that is as strong as it was when Peter Froundjian first thought there might be an audience for these rarities some 35... — MusicWeb International, December 2022 More…