Celestial Harmonies – piano music by Camilleri
McLachlan is one of the established Camilleri specialists; performer and composer worked together on this CD of music (first recordings in each case) some of which was especially written for this recording. Camilleri’s music here is very special – atmospheric, mystical but also full of life and vigour.
Camilleri of a different kind: light, fun and brilliant orchestral works on DDV 24126 and for two pianos on DDV 24167.
Track Listing
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Charles Camilleri:
- Paganiana, for piano four hands (4:09)
- Astralis − 1. Gravite (1:38)
- Astralis − 2. Comet (1:11)
- Astralis − 3. Constellations (2:17)
- Astralis − 4. Explose-Fixe (2:18)
- Cosmologies − 1. Cosmologies I (8:13)
- Cosmologies − 2. Colours of time (8:00)
- Cosmologies − 3. Xnobis (6:21)
- Celestial Harmonies − 1. Vision-Prayer (2:10)
- Celestial Harmonies − 2. Rolling Stars (0:58)
- Celestial Harmonies − 3. Night-Sky (2:18)
- Celestial Harmonies − 4. Celestial Harmonies (1:33)
- Chemins − 1. Inspace (2:08)
- Chemins − 2. Machine Music (0:35)
- Chemins − 3. Just a Thought (1:04)
- Chemins − 4. Rhythmic Kit (1:10)
- Chemins − 5. Shadows of Silence (1:26)
- Noospheres − 1. Noosphere I (7:31)
- Noospheres − 2. A Gentle Spirit (4:16)
- Noospheres − 3. Cosmic Dance (2:32)
- Noospheres − 4. A Free Spirit (3:14)
- Noospheres − 5. Noosphere II (5:37)
Reviews
“very beautiful: refined in line and texture, haunting yet spare and superbly captured by [McLachlan] Recording ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Performance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
” —Robert Cockroft
“Surely this must be counted as one of the most important piano recordings ever issued of Charles Camilleri’s music. As time goes by, the mind becomes more lucid, assimilates influences fairly spectacularly and contributes ideas of such hallowed genius that the all-embracing universe can only hope to contemplate cosmologies and harmony. ‘Paganiniana’ is a delightful […]
” —Gerald Fenech
“The prolific output of the Maltese-born composer Charles Camilleri has gone through a number of phases, as explained in Murray McLachlan’s booklet notes, and this new CD is made up of music from the composer’s recent, more spiritual, period; that is from the late 1970s to the present day. Throughout Camilleri’s varied career there have […]
” —Robert Matthew-Walker
“The individuality and allure of Camilleri’s brief set of variations [on the Paganini Caprice] serve as an accessible introduction to the unique music on the balance of the disc
” —Peter Burwasser
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