Lore Lixenberg: Martyn Harry: Piano Works and Songs - COMPACT DISCS

Lore Lixenberg: Martyn Harry: Piano Works and Songs - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Martyn Harry: Piano Works and Songs

Artist:

Lore Lixenberg

Label:

Toccata

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060113447975

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-05-15

Number of Discs:

1

Baseball, Bach, a disused railway line and the misuse of music in Iraqi prisons might be unexpected inspirations behind the work of a composer who is an Oxford professor by day. But the piano music of Martyn Harry - born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1964 - proves to be a wild, kaleidoscopic mix of just such unlikely influences: Satie, Sorabji, American minimalism, Prokofiev, Silvestrov and more, all intended to exercise the technique of his good friend, the fireball pianist Jonathan Powell, whose early death in December 2025 shocked the musical world. There is a gleeful, almost manic quality to much of this music that found a counterpart in the unflagging energy of Powell's playing. A song-cycle setting six early Anna Akhmatova poems likewise taps into the tension she found in intimacy, releasing a surprising degree of passion.

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