Palimpsest

Chopin, Fryderyk, Finnissy, Michael, Kay, Alison, różni kompozytorzy, Schubert, Franz

Hao, Rob

DDX 21140

Australian pianist Rob Hao makes a striking debut with an album that explores how music from different times and styles can interact and inspire new ideas. At the heart of the recording is the premiere of Palimpsest 571, Hao’s original work completing Franz Schubert’s unfinished Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D. 571. Rather than trying to imitate Schubert’s style exactly, Hao embraces the gap between past and present, creating a continuation that respects the mood and mystery of the original fragment while adding a fresh, modern voice.

The album also features a set of piano etudes by British composer Alison Kay, whose minimalist and atmospheric pieces invite listeners to experience sound and silence in new ways. Alongside these contemporary works are carefully chosen pieces by Chopin, Schubert, Schubert-Liszt, and Michael Finnissy’s challenging English country-tunes .

Works:

•Schubert: Piano Sonata in F sharp minor D571
• Rob Hao: Palimpsest 571
• Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 62, B. 161: No. 1 in B Major. Andante
• Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 62, B. 161: No. 2 in E Major. Lento
• Kay, A: Piano Etudes: No. 10, Orison II
• Kay, A: Piano Etudes: No. 11, Lullaby for Isabelle
• Schubert: 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935: No. 2 in A-Flat Major. Allegretto
• Liszt: Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S. 565: No. 2, Der Müller und der Bach
• Finnissy: English Country-Tunes
• Rob Hao: No. 2, Midsummer Morn
• Finnissy: English Country-Tunes: No. 7, My Bonny Boy
• Finnissy: English Country-Tunes: No. 8, Come Beat the Drums and Sound the Fifes

CD x 1

Divine Art

9/1/25

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