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NIGHT THOUGHTS
Sue Anderson (mezzo-soprano), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Nancy Ruffer (flutes), Corrado Canonici (double bass), Andrew Sparling (bass clarinet), Julian Warburton (percussion)

All the works on this disc, according to the composer Justin Connolly, are explorations of images of darkness. They include "Nocturnal" a set of sea-pictures, and "Scardanelli Dreams", which "charts the motion of a great spirit, not dimmed, but which illuminates the darkness in which it finds itself."

playing time: 72.57 
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audio  sample:  Nocturnal - beginning
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tracks:
Sonatina no. 2 - Ennead, op. 26
Nocturnal, op. 33
Tesserae F: "Domination in Black", op. 15f
Scardanelli Dreams, op. 37

review extracts: for full reviews click here
“The performers, a corpus of seasoned new-music specialists, respond with dedication to a composer whose thoughts flow from a source where the intensity of art mingles with the mysterious passage of life. The Second Sonata for piano, and bass-clarinet study Domination of Black, offer additional proof of the composer in fine form in the seventh decade” ×××× – Nicholas Williams (BBC Music Magazine)
“…haunted, strange, strangely beautiful music. Nicolas Hodges, the pianist throughout this disc, masters every nuance the musical landscape requires. He can mention as well as mutter, demonstrate as well as remonstrate, but his formidable technique dissolves difficulty and urges on us the attention this music deserves.” - Peter Dale (Music and Vision)
“Connolly's manner is vividly gestural, beautifully coloured, and compellingly fluid.” - Stephen Pettitt (The Sunday Times)