Composer: Noah Max
Performer: Raymond Brian, Philip Haworth, Zoë Solomon, Brompton Quartet, Barbican Piano Trio, Robert Max, Maja Horvat, Kinga Wojdalska, Wallis Power, James Kirby, Sophie Lockett
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0638
Release: 2022
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Songs of Loneliness
01. I. Maestoso un poco mosso
02. II. Ruvido con orrore. Senza misura
03. III. Like a Warm Lamp Swinging Softly Through Darkness
04. IV. False Dawn. Finale
05. Constellations
Sunset Sketches
06. No. 1, Dusk
07. No. 2, Sunset
08. No. 3, Stars
Sojourn
09. I. Introduzione
10. II. Mysterioso
11. III. Furioso
12. IV. Intermezzo
13. V. Maestoso
14. VI. Finale
15. It Comes in Waves
Cornucopia
16. No. 1
17. No. 2, Moto perpetuo
18. No. 3, Open and Plentiful
19. Vignette for Piano Trio
Noah Max – born into a musical family in London in 1998 – has already carved out an impressive career as a composer and conductor; he is also an accomplished painter and a poet. For someone so young, the surprise of this debut album is the sense of loss unifying these pieces. The feeling of innocence forgone is characteristic of the music of many English composers in the first half of the twentieth century, Elgar, Finzi, Howells and Vaughan Williams among them. Max’s music is clearly of its own time, but it shares the elegiac lyricism of those earlier masters.