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Nicolas Hodges
Sciarrino: Complete Piano Works
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1077
Discs: 1
Sciarrino: Complete Piano Works
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1077
Discs: 1
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"Sciarrino’s ide of the piano nocturne is miles away from that of Chopin or Field. For him, night music has to convey “the limits of perception” and the dark mystery of the unseen. Thus the music exploits the extremes of the instrument, touching the bounds of inaudibility and often using the noises of the piano itself – the mechanics of the keys, the rattling of the pedal – which are normally hidden behind the notes. Hodges’s performances were quite breathtaking…"
(The Telegraph at the recital)
"The piano output of Salvatore Sciarrino is extensive, and this seven-year survey is an excellent way into his recent work. His is music at the margins of conventional technique and at the limits of “normal” perception – with a quizzical, even playful demeanour that actively seeks out without ever imposing itself on the listener’s attention.
The Fifth Sonata is as compendious a demonstration of Sciarrino’s idiom as might be expected from a work written for Maurizio Pollini. As the music intensifies in expression over its 14-minute span, so the range of devices extends into an array of textural complexity. A sonata “about” as much as “for” the piano, there are five different endings – two of which (that is, two performances with alternative endings) feature here: preference depends on how one perceives the sonata up to that point, and on one’s sense of the unexpected.
Polveri laterali is a calling-card with political undertones, while the Nocturnes find Sciarrino leaving no less distinctive a mark on the genre as has Ligeti on the étude. None of them toys with poetic fancy, the Notturni crudeli possessing a sense of the ominous that plays – or rather preys – on the listener’s sensibility in a distinctly “cruel” manner. It is something that Nicolas Hodges, with his fastidious touch and deft reflexes, conveys in abundance. Superbly realistic sound, with thoughtfully anecdotal notes by the composer and a helpful contextual note from David Osmond-Smith. A disc that honours the composer as surely as it incites the listener."
(Richard Whitehouse for Gramophone)
(The Telegraph at the recital)
"The piano output of Salvatore Sciarrino is extensive, and this seven-year survey is an excellent way into his recent work. His is music at the margins of conventional technique and at the limits of “normal” perception – with a quizzical, even playful demeanour that actively seeks out without ever imposing itself on the listener’s attention.
The Fifth Sonata is as compendious a demonstration of Sciarrino’s idiom as might be expected from a work written for Maurizio Pollini. As the music intensifies in expression over its 14-minute span, so the range of devices extends into an array of textural complexity. A sonata “about” as much as “for” the piano, there are five different endings – two of which (that is, two performances with alternative endings) feature here: preference depends on how one perceives the sonata up to that point, and on one’s sense of the unexpected.
Polveri laterali is a calling-card with political undertones, while the Nocturnes find Sciarrino leaving no less distinctive a mark on the genre as has Ligeti on the étude. None of them toys with poetic fancy, the Notturni crudeli possessing a sense of the ominous that plays – or rather preys – on the listener’s sensibility in a distinctly “cruel” manner. It is something that Nicolas Hodges, with his fastidious touch and deft reflexes, conveys in abundance. Superbly realistic sound, with thoughtfully anecdotal notes by the composer and a helpful contextual note from David Osmond-Smith. A disc that honours the composer as surely as it incites the listener."
(Richard Whitehouse for Gramophone)