{"product_id":"1965909","title":"Kenneth Hamilton - Scenes From Childhood [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew things could have prepared society for the global pandemic that gripped the world from 2020-21. From that darkness, however, there emerged numerous avenues for creative reflection. Musicians suddenly had a lot of time on their hands, and an opportunity to develop their art in new and ambitious directions. During this period, Portuguese composer Pedro Faria Gomes, whose imaginative and communicative music combines clear originality with a confident respect for tradition, turned to the piano. His initial idea was to write a variation on two sets of four notes. Faria shared the resulting movement with pianist Kenneth Hamilton, his colleague at Cardiff University School of Music. Hamilton was impressed with the piece, and a plan evolved to compose a more elaborate work. This developed into the ten movement, strikingly thought-provoking Suite J--the 'J' refers to Faria's daughter Joana--recorded for the first time on this disc.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little while later, Faria's second child, Daniel, was born. This in turn was the inspiration for the charmingly witty Sonatina, a gracefully concise companion piece to the Suite, also conceived to be premiered and recorded by Kenneth Hamilton. Both works pay heartfelt homage to historical genres--the Baroque Suite, the Classical Sonatina--while drawing inspiration from a web of allusion and quotation more redolent of the Romantic piano music of Robert Schumann. Accordingly, the title of the album--Scenes from Childhood--is gratefully borrowed from Schumann's collection of the same name. This is nevertheless noAlbum for the Young, rather a nostalgically adult reflection on early childhood, and a moving, modern meditation on the music of earlier eras.\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo of the most remarkable compositions to come out of the pandemic. Hamilton is a major contributor to the album's success\\x85[he] offers restrained yet sensitive readings that let the details in Gomes' music emerge naturally. A wonderful offbeat find from the small Prima Facie label that made classical best-seller charts in early 2024'. - AllMusic\u003c\/p\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Hamilton's playing is superb\\x85The recording is excellent. Pedro Faria Gomes' music is definitely worth seeking out.' Colin Clarke, Fanfare\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kenneth Hamilton's playing is subtle, sensitive, and wonderfully songful; an exquisitely accomplished rendition of the  rather discreetly rendered colours of the music and of its lyrical qualities.' Holger Sambale, Klassik Heute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - I. Preludio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - II. Toccata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - III. Rondo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - IV. Corrente\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - V. Recitativo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - VI. Trittico: Ricercare, Canone e Coda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - VII. Interludio (Dittico)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - VIII. Bordone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - IX. Ritornello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuite J - X. Sarabanda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonatina - I. Procissao [Procession]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonatina - II. Cancao de Embalar [Lullaby]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonatina - III. Danca [Dance]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54421383938433,"sku":"1965909","price":12.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/7141148050373.jpg?v=1750649348","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1965909","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}