Saskia Lankhoorn - Kate Moore: Dances And Canons (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

"Dances and Canons" is the debut ECM recording of both composer Kate Moore and pianist Saskia Langhoorn. Moore was born in England in 1979 and lives now in the Netherlands (where she studied with Louis Andriessen). However, it is Australia, where she grew up, which has left the strongest impression on her creative imagination, its teeming natural soundscapes transmuted in her music of hypnotically-swarming pulse patterns and shifting, layered planes of sound. In Dutch pianist Lankhoorn (also born 1979), Moore has a dedicated and resourceful interpreter. “It’s impossible to listen to this music”, writes George Miller in the liner note, “and not wonder about the enormous technical demands it makes of the performer”. Moore and Lankhoorn have collaborated regularly since 2003. As well as compositions for solo piano, the programme includes pieces for two pianos, four pianos and multiple pianos, realized in the Auditorio svizzera, Lugano, with Manfred Eicher as producer.

Saskia Lankhoorn is a dedicated new music pianist, and she knows how to make Kate Moore’s music sing, discovering a lyrical freedom with her touch beyond the structural and technical demands of the score. Her insights into the pieces, and her sensitivity to their sonic possibilities, are based on more than a decade of close collaboration with the composer. – Manfred Eicher

Tracklist:

01 - Spin Bird
02 - Stories for Ocean Shells
03 - The Body Is an Ear
04 - Canon
05 - Zomer
06 - Joy
07 - Sensitive Spot
08 - Spin Bird (Alternative Version)

Produced by Manfred Eicher. Engineered by Markus Heiland.
Recorded April 2013 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano.


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