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Inspired by Williams’ experience mothering her two infant children in the isolating dead of night while the world around her slept, "Nightlight" is dedicated, she says, “to the many people who… feel alone in the darkness. To those who experience despair or sublime melancholy during the hours before the dawn, who are searching for solace, peace or impossible hope. To anyone lost who is waiting to be found by the light”.
Spanning four centuries, from Thomas Tomkins’ exquisitely melancholic A Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times to jazz virtuoso Bill Evans’ hypnotic, fantasy-laced Peace Piece, the recital moves from sleep-inducing nightfall – Mozart’s D minor Fantasia, K. 397 – to waking hopes for the new dawn in what Williams describes as the “shimmering hope, glory just beyond the horizon” of Schumann’s Gesänge der Frühe.
The becalmed and tempest-driven waters of the ocean in Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 "Sonata-Fantasy prove a perfect metaphor for the stilled and turbulent currents of the night. Plunging into night’s darkest, most disturbed places, the dislocations of Schubert’s late Sonata in C minor, D. 958, are salved by two soothingly nocturne-like Liszt Consolations.
“The music recorded here,” says Williams, “sees our loneliness and darkness, recognizes and validates those unutterable feelings, and reaches out a hand of consolation”. © SOMM Recordings
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Piano Fantasia No. 3 in D Minor, K. 397 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
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Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy" (Alexander Scriabin)
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Consolations, S. 172 (Excerpts) (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
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Franz Liszt, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Piano sonata in C Minor, D. 958 (Franz Schubert)
Franz Schubert, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Franz Schubert, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Franz Schubert, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times, MB 53 (Arr. for Piano) (Thomas Tomkins)
Thomas Tomkins, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Peace Piece (Bill Evans)
Bill Evans, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Gesänge der Frühe, op. 133 (Robert Schumann)
Robert Schumann, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Robert Schumann, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Robert Schumann, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Robert Schumann, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Robert Schumann, Composer - Cordelia Williams, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
Album review
Inspired by Williams’ experience mothering her two infant children in the isolating dead of night while the world around her slept, "Nightlight" is dedicated, she says, “to the many people who… feel alone in the darkness. To those who experience despair or sublime melancholy during the hours before the dawn, who are searching for solace, peace or impossible hope. To anyone lost who is waiting to be found by the light”.
Spanning four centuries, from Thomas Tomkins’ exquisitely melancholic A Sad Pavan for these Distracted Times to jazz virtuoso Bill Evans’ hypnotic, fantasy-laced Peace Piece, the recital moves from sleep-inducing nightfall – Mozart’s D minor Fantasia, K. 397 – to waking hopes for the new dawn in what Williams describes as the “shimmering hope, glory just beyond the horizon” of Schumann’s Gesänge der Frühe.
The becalmed and tempest-driven waters of the ocean in Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 "Sonata-Fantasy prove a perfect metaphor for the stilled and turbulent currents of the night. Plunging into night’s darkest, most disturbed places, the dislocations of Schubert’s late Sonata in C minor, D. 958, are salved by two soothingly nocturne-like Liszt Consolations.
“The music recorded here,” says Williams, “sees our loneliness and darkness, recognizes and validates those unutterable feelings, and reaches out a hand of consolation”. © SOMM Recordings
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:22
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Cordelia Williams
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2021 SOMM Recordings (P) 2021 SOMM Recordings
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