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MET 1029 - Piers Hellawell - Sound Carvings

MET 1029 - Piers Hellawell - Sound Carvings
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A survey of the instrumental work of the Piers Hellawell the Hebridean and Belfast-based composer played by two dynamic ensembles at the forefront of contempory music performance. Hellawell's music has been influenced by two contrasting sources, Irish traditional music and Balinese Gamelan.

Sound Carvings from the Water’s Edge 1996

Truth or Consequences 1991

Sound Carvings from the Ice Wall 1994

Memorial Cairns 1992

Sound Carvings from Rano Raraku 1988

'Central to this engrossing, extremely well-played survey of the last decade is the Sound Carvings trilogy: music of vivid colours, imaginative juxtapositions and elaborations' - BBC Music Magazine

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