Return Of The Nightingales - Music for Solo Piano - Prima Facie: PFCD072 - CD or download

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A disc that offers much of interest for inquiring listeners and players alike. Not that those latter will find it easy to match the technical finesse and interpretative insight of the pianist... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: PFCD072
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 68 minutes

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Ian Pace, Sadie Harrison: Return of the Nightingales

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Sadie Harrison, Ian Pace

Renée Reznek, Sadie Harrison: Par-feshani-ye ‘eshq

Work length12:23

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Sadie Harrison, Renée Reznek

I. Six Pieces after Bidel

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II. Six Pieces after Bidel

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III. Six Pieces after Bidel

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IV. Six Pieces after Bidel

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V. Six Pieces after Bidel

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VI. Six Pieces after Bidel

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Duncan Honeybourne, Sadie Harrison: Lunae "Four Nocturnes"

Work length14:40

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Sadie Harrison, Duncan Honeybourne

I. "...Around and a Round..."

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II. "Lachrymae"

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III. "Of Stars and Nightingales"

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IV. "Sufficit lumen in tenebris"

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Duncan Honeybourne, Sadie Harrison: Shadows "Six Portraits of William Baines"

Work length19:39

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Sadie Harrison, Duncan Honeybourne

I. "Waiting..." (11 Shepstye Road)

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II. "Ghosts"

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III. "Tomorrow I Shall Be in Khaki"

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IV. "...Out Into the Lonely Grey..."

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V. "...After I Had Played "Le Rossignol'"

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VI. "Waiting..." (91 Albemarle Road)

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Philippa Harrison, Sadie Harrison: Four Jazz Portraits

Work length6:09

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Sadie Harrison, Philippa Harrison

I. Pavilion Ferris Stride (Fats Waller)

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II. Just Air and Water (Bill Evans)

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III. Erroneous Monkish (Thelonious Monk)

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IV. Boogie-Woogie Barcarolle (Albert Ammons)

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Philippa Harrison, Sadie Harrison: The Souls of Flowers

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Sadie Harrison, Philippa Harrison

Philippa Harrison, Sadie Harrison: Northern Lights

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Sadie Harrison, Philippa Harrison

Philippa Harrison, Sadie Harrison: Luna...for Nicola

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Sadie Harrison, Philippa Harrison

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Sadie Harrison's new album Return of the Nightingales features eight solo piano works composed between 2013-2017. The album is a celebration of four pianists with whom Sadie has collaborated extensively over the past decade - Philippa Harrison, Duncan Honeybourne, Ian Pace and Renée Reznek. The majority of the pieces were premiered by these pianists and the disc is a showcase not just of Sadie's music but also of each individual performer - from the hyper-virtuosity of Ian Pace in the title work to the quirky vivacity of Philippa Harrison in Four Jazz Portraits, from Renée Reznek's highly coloured interpretation of Par-feshani-ye 'Eshq to Duncan Honeybourne's sumptuously expressive renditions of Shadows and Lunae. As such, the disc offers a unique insight into a range of contemporary piano performances, an unusual contribution where the emphasis is as much on the players as the composer herself.

Sadie's piano works are performed and broadcast all over the world and are part of the core repertoire of many international pianists. Her music is joyfully multi-referential acknowledging Bartok, Berg, Chopin, Debussy and jazz greats such as Evans, Waller and Monk. Sadie's passion for the cultures of Persia and Afghanistan has also found expression in pieces which weave traditional folk music into starkly modernist pieces, finding news means to celebrate the diversity of musical languages across continents and centuries. The range of references in these works - boogie-woogie to 1920's Hollywood film scores, machine-gun rattle to British folksongs, Methodist hymns to an Afghan singer's chant - are threaded together by birdsong which features in almost every work on the disc, an eternal music around which the pieces revolve.

'Extraordinary power and clarity - sensitive and ardent' Tempo (2016)

Sadie was born in 1965 in Adelaide, Australia. Now based in Dorset, she works as a freelance composer across the UK and abroad. Her music has been performed internationally by some of the world's top musicians with numerous radio and television broadcasts. Several CDs of her music have been released to critical acclaim. Her works are published by UYMP, ABRSM and Recital Music.

Sadie is currently Composer-in-Residence with the American ensemble Cuatro Puntos and the first Composer-in-Residence with the Keunstler Bei Wu Sculpture Park, Wessenberg, Germany, a post supported by an Arts Council England International Development Grant and a PRSF Composers' Fund award.

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February 2018

A disc that offers much of interest for inquiring listeners and players alike. Not that those latter will find it easy to match the technical finesse and interpretative insight of the pianist featured here, their playing enhanced by the realistic sound courtesy of Prima Facie

March 2018

The Six Pieces after Bidel, Par-feshani-ye contain near-Impressionistic beauty as well as muscularity. Reznek’s London premiere of this in May 2014 was revelatory; this performance no less so. An important disc.

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