Title: Up By the Roots Artist: Hellawell / Fidelio Trio / Ulster Orchestra Label: Delphian Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 801918342233 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2020-03-13 Number of Discs: 1
In a long and distinguished career, Piers Hellawell has produced a body of work characterized by boundless invention, genuine discovery and deep integrity. Here, with his second release on Delphian, his enduring creative partnerships - forged through nearly 40 years of composing - are reflected in music that combines arresting surface gestures and sounds with a powerful underlying vision, resulting in pieces that both encourage and reward repeated hearings. Piers Hellawell was born in England and studied at Oxford University, but was appointed when 24 to a composition post at The Queen's University of Belfast, where, since 2002, he has been Professor of Composition. His family home is in Northern Scotland; his sixty or so published works owe their genesis to that working environment. Working away from England through his career has encouraged Hellawell's detached attitude to centralized musical fashions; in his teaching and writing about music, as in composition, he advocates traditional training as a platform for individuality, and expresses an aversion to obvious solutions.
Tracks: 1.1 Up by the Roots for piano trio and narrator~I. After the bombed-out town 1.2 Up by the Roots for piano trio and narrator~II. Listen - Breaking ; entering 1.3 Up by the Roots for piano trio and narrator~III-IIIa. What's this muttering 1.4 Atria for cello and piano~I. Leggierissimo, flessibile 1.5 Atria for cello and piano~II. Interlude 1.6 Atria for cello and piano~III. Pesante 1.7 Atria for cello and piano~IV. Interlude 1.8 Atria for cello and piano~V. Misterioso 1.9 Ground Truthing for flutes, clarinets, violin, cello and piano~I. Veloce 1.10 Ground Truthing for flutes, clarinets, violin, cello and piano~II. Vivo 1.11 Ground Truthing for flutes, clarinets, violin, cello and piano~III. Ruvido 1.12 Piani, Latebre for piano~Introduction 1.13 Piani, Latebre for piano~Étude 1.14 Piani, Latebre for piano~Impromptu 1.15 Piani, Latebre for piano~Ballade 1.16 Wild Flow for orchestra~I. Pesante - Vivo, molto animato 1.17 Wild Flow for orchestra~II. Ritmico, meccanico 1.18 Wild Flow for orchestra~III. Largamente 1.19 Wild Flow for orchestra~IV. Molto veloce, leggierissimo 1.20 Wild Flow for orchestra~V. Animato, vivace
