Seán Morgan-Rooney: A Few Reflect the Heart

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Seán Morgan-Rooney: A Few Reflect the HeartSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Centred on Ravels luminous Miroirs, this striking solo album from Irish pianist composer Sen Morgan Rooney unfolds as a sequence of reflections on nature, memory and self perception. Ravels five finely etched character pieces are interwoven with music by Berio, Stravinsky and Etvs, alongside Morgan Rooneys own electroacoustic miniatures, tracing a journey through air, fire, earth and water the elemental framework

with a ‘Diapason d’Or’ and a recent Gramophone Award nomination for his premiere recording of Messiaen’s rediscovered La Fauvette passerinette

A harpsichord leading a string quartet in a juddering dance

Most impressive is the Magnificat with its alternation of solo-sung single-choir verses and double-choir tuttis

GLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 10 NOVEMBER 2023

"The greater sophistication of the early 17th- century English composers must have shocked the Scots musicians

Number of tracks: 48

EDINBURGH MUSIC REVIEW

Written forty years apart

now they bring the same musical and liturgical integrity to works by Taverner’s near contemporary John Sheppard

and the practice of performing them on keyboard instruments has a similarly long pedigree

Paxton's lovely and complex layering of sounds

Yet its legendary director