La Fauvette Passerinette: A Messiaen premiere with birds, landscapes and homages

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Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: DCD34141
Label: Delphian
Length: 78 minutes

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Excerpt, Ravel: Miroirs, M.43

Work length4:22

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Miroirs: No. 2. Oiseaux tristes

Track length4:22

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Excerpt, Messiaen: Preludes (8)

Work length2:19

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

8 Preludes: No. 1. La colombe

Track length2:19

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Messiaen: Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Work length1:58

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

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Excerpt, Messiaen: Quatre Études de rythme

Work length2:05

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

4 Etudes de rythme: No. 1. Ile de feu I

Track length2:05

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Stockhausen: Klavierstuck VII, Work No. 4

Work length6:31

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Stockhausen: Klavierstuck VIII, Work No. 4

Work length1:59

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Anderson, Julian: Etudes: Etude No. 1

Work length0:44

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Benjamin, G: 3 Studies

Work length12:20

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

3 Studies: No. 1. Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm

Track length12:20

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Excerpt, Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7

Work length13:55

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Catalogue d'oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds): No. 4. Le Traquet Stapazin (Black-eared Wheatear)

Track length13:55

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Dutilleux: Préludes (3)

Work length3:48

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

3 Preludes: No. 1. D'ombre et de silence

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Sculthorpe: Night Pieces

Work length1:39

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Night Pieces: No. 5. Stars

Track length1:39

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Young, D: River (from Dreamlandscapes, Book 2)

Work length6:07

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Messiaen: La Fauvette passerinette

Work length11:00

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Murail: Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire

Work length4:22

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Takemitsu: Ame no ki sobyo II (Rain Tree Sketch II), 'In memoriam Olivier Messiaen'

Work length3:41

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Messiaen: Morceau de lecture à vue

Work length1:57

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Peter Hill (piano)
Recorded: 23 March / 6 April 2014
Recording Venue: Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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In 2012, leading pianist and Messiaen scholar Peter Hill made a remarkable discovery among the composer’s papers: several pages of tightly written manuscript from 1961, constituting a near-complete and hitherto unknown work for piano. Hill was able to fill in some missing dynamics and articulations by consulting Messiaen’s birdsong notebooks, and gave the work’s first public performance in the autumn of 2013.

Here, then, he follows his acclaimed Bach recordings for Delphian with a return to the music in which he first made his reputation, setting this glittering addition to Messiaen’s piano output in the context both of the composer’s own earlier work and of music by the many younger composers on whom Messiaen was a profound influence – from Stockhausen and Takemitsu to George Benjamin, who like Hill himself worked closely with the composer in the years before his death.

One of the leading British pianists of his generation, Peter Hill worked with Messiaen between 1986 and 1991 while recording the composer’s complete piano works. The series was described by the New York Times as "one of the most impressive solo recording projects of recent years", and won Messiaen’s endorsement: "Beautiful technique, a true poet: I am a passionate admirer of Peter Hill’s playing." His research on Messiaen continues and a book on 'Catalogue d’oiseaux' is in preparation.

Hill’s recordings for Delphian of Bach’s 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' – two volumes, each comprising 2 CDs – have received outstanding reviews: Book 2 (Delphian DCD34101) was CD of the Week on BBC Radio 3.

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December 2014

Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux or Peter Sculthorpe, Murail or Takemitsu, Hill's provides a masterclass in capturing a composer's idiom with warmth and humanity.

Diapason April 2015

he knows how to make a sound like bronze, like those pianists from before the first world war. There it is: you’re hooked … the depth of his sound, the kaleidoscope of attacks, the intelligence of the pedalling are unfailing.

December 2014

Hill's realisation forms a rewarding substantial centrepiece to this outstanding recital disc. The whole point is to put Messiaen himself in a stimulating context...The appeal of the disc is greatly enhanced by the exceptional quality of the recording, with every facet of Hill's uncompromisingly extensive expressive range vividly captured.

January 2015

this generously filled disc [is] a serious study for both concentrated and extended reading.

7th January 2015

With a beautiful recorded balance equally capturing the subtle colours and drama of both the music and Peter Hill’s performances, this is both a piano recording of demonstration quality and a musical experience to treasure.

2nd November 2014

Hill has devised a fascinating sequence to contextualise this first recording of an 11-minute virtuoso piece he discovered in Messiaen’s posthumous papers...as performed here, [it] is bitingly fresh and chattery, plausibly ornithological.

22nd October 2014

La Fauvette Passerinette represents a path Messiaen never followed further...As Hill’s performance shows, however, it’s an utterly convincing and thrilling piece of piano writing – a fierce, sustained 11-minute study as rigorous as Messiaen’s piano works of the late 1940s...Altogether, it is a hugely rewarding and important disc.

8th November 2014

What a discovery! La Fauvette Passerinette is a stunning 11-minute piano solo — joyous, syncopated and virtuosic...It was rediscovered recently by Peter Hill, who sends its birdsong-based fantasies soaring fabulously on a fascinating disc that puts the French maître in the context of contemporaries...and pupils.

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