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- Summary: The first full-length release on the Sony Classical label for German composer/pianist Volker Bertelmann was inspired by nature.
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- Record Label: Sony Classical
- Genre(s): Classical, Avant-Garde, Modern Composition
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Feb 11, 2019[An] intelligently-crafted album that repays repeated playing to appreciate its numerous qualities.
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Feb 11, 2019A serene, thought-provoking album that grows richer with each listen.
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UncutFeb 11, 2019Despite convoluted explanations about their relationship with nature, these compositions are surprisingly straightforward, with "Everyone Sleeps" and "Hands In The Anthill" almost primly formal. [Mar 2019, p.29]
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Jun 19, 2019That this focuses entirely on the unadorned piano may feel like a step down from those who embrace his more adventurous works. The instrumental chops heard here, though, stand on their own very well, and reveal another side to Hauschka’s music — and, perhaps, create some ambiguity as to where he might head from here.
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Feb 11, 2019Several tracks (“Curious,” “Ghosts”) rely on the tug of well-worn harmonic shapes and the weaving of legato lines to entrance rather than ideate, persuade, or startle. The standouts have more substance, musically and visually.
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Feb 19, 2019Wistful and introverted themes abut against a handful of more fraught moments, where the memories turn from monochromatic to colourful clusters, like autumnal avalanches of melody.
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