Cordelia Williams, Piano
’NIGHT'
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.2 in G sharp
minor, Op.19
Thomas Tomkins: A Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times
(1649)
Bill Evans: Peace Piece (1958)
Robert Schumann: Songs of Dawn
(Gesänge der Frühe), Op.133
“This sequence formed itself
during the countless hazy hours I spent awake with two newborn sons. I
felt lost within the constant interplay of overflowing joy and love with
an unbearable desperation and loneliness. Those endless nights awake, my
new life of which I had no understanding or certainty, were a kind of hell
and, simultaneously, heaven. The programme ‘finds’ itself in Schumann’s
Songs of Dawn: shimmering hope, glory just beyond the horizon.” Cordelia
Williams.
“Williams finds astonishing beauty in these pieces that
had me shaking my head in wonder. Consummate artistry…touching real
greatness.” ‘Nightlight’, MusicWeb International, Recording of the Year
Artist
info: cordeliawilliams.net
