Drinking The Stars: Mary Dullea Plays The Piano Music Of John Mclachlan - New Cd

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Drinking the Stars Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan Released by FarPoint Recordings 2023 - New 2xCD set in shrink wrap Limited edition 6 panel fold-out eco pack sleeve including a 16 page booklet with extensive liner notes and images by McLachlan. Images by visual artist Joanna Kidney also feature throughout. Includes unlimited streaming of Drinking the Stars via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Announcing 'Drinking The Stars', an ambitious new double CD by John McLachlan released by Farpoint Recordings, 29th June 2023 Mary Dullea plays the solo piano music of John McLachlan on a new double CD entitled 'Drinking the Stars'. Spanning his output from the 1990s to today, it showcases his compositional style and how it evolves over that time. The music ranges across splinteringly direct virtuosity, sinewy counterpoint, rich chordal meditation and much else besides; yet we hear unity in the artistic voice. The interplay of sets of terse miniatures, medium sized meditations, and lengthier immersive pieces gives a layered feeling when listened through as a programme. The selection of pieces includes nearly all of McLachlan's piano compositions intended for the concert stage (as distinct from his pedagogical works). Mary Dullea's superb range of tone and mastery of timing are captured clearly and cleanly by Chris Corrigan's expert engineering, in recordings made in Belfast and Kilkenny. This CD makes it possible to hear many works that have been heard only in live concerts before, by many pianists, scattered across many countries and years, and it is a great place to get an overview of this composer's musical landscape. The CD features detailed liner notes and images by McLachlan alongside images by renowned Wicklow based visual artist Joanna Kidney. The project was supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealion. Uncompromising perhaps, occasionally stark but always vivid and arresting, a survey of the Irish composer John McLachlan's piano music from the last 30 years in stunning performances from Mary Dullea The Irish composer John McLachlan was born in Dublin and studied music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and Trinity College Dublin, and studied composition with William York, Robert Hanson and Kevin Volans. It is perhaps relevant to his own compositional style that for his PhD in musicology from Trinity College Dublin, he specialised in researching the compositional techniques of Boulez, Xenakis, Lutoslawski and Carter. This new disc, Drinking the stars: Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan on Farpoint Recordings, features two discs (a total of over two hours music) with Mary Dullea performing a range of McLachlan's piano music from almost the last 30 years. Whilst the majority of pieces are from the last decade or so, there are works dating back to the 1990s. As McClachlan explains in his booklet note, this spread of time means that his approach in the works is quite varied, but listening to the whole one senses a fascinating with structure as opposed to focusing on harmony, or melodic material, and a certain uncompromising feeling to his approach.
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