Conor Hanick - A Gentle Notion (2021) [Official Digital Download]

The duo's debut album A Gentle Notion, featuring newly commissioned works for clarinet and piano and new interpretation of mainstay masterpieces. The album's title track is a short work by Jennifer Higdon, heard here in a premiere recording. Where that work is inward and understated, Higdon's "Clarinet Sonata" is extroverted and exuberant, its proportions almost symphonic in scale. Two other sonatas balance the album: Aaron Copland's iconic midcentury masterwork, and the world premiere recording of American composer Pierre Jalbert "Sonata for clarinet and piano", commissioned for the Hanick Hawley Duo by the Music Academy of the West in 2015. The album's centerpiece is Joan Tower's tour de force for solo clarinet, "Wings".

A Gentle Notion was produced by Hawley and Il Pirata Records. By eschewing traditional classical music production methods and in their place applying innovative recording and mixing techniques, Hawley and Il Pirata place the listener directly alongside the musicians on stage. While many recordings offer a panned-out listening experience, flattening the rich sonic detail of close listening, A Gentle Notion offers the resonance, texture, and multi-dimensionality of an onstage experience.

TRACKLIST

1. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: I. Andante semplice
2. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: II. Lento
3. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: III. Allegretto giusto
4. Richie Hawley - A Gentle Notion
5. Richie Hawley - Wings for Solo Clarinet
6. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: I. Calmly
7. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: II. Declamatory
8. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: I. Dramatic and driving
9. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: II. Timeless, mysterious
10. Richie Hawley - Clarinet Sonata: III. Presto agitato



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