Hyperion Ornstein CD Ornstein: Piano Music

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

CDA67320

Recording details: August 2001
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: August 2002
Total duration: 76 minutes 56 seconds

Track listing CD1 1
Suicide in an airplane (Ornstein) 3:46
2
À la Chinoise, Op 39 (Ornstein) 4:59
3
Danse sauvage, Op 13 No 2 (Ornstein) 2:48

Poems of 1917, Op 41 (Ornstein)
4 No 01: No man's land. Andante espressivo 1:59
5 No 02: The sowe of despair. Moderato 2:38
6 No 03: The Orient in Flanders. Andantino, molto espressivo 0:47
7 No 04: The wrath of the despoiled. Sostenuto, molto appassionato 1:30
8 No 05: Night brooding over the battlefield. Moderato e misterioso 1:24
9 No 06: A dirge of the trenches. Lento 2:20
10 No 07: Song behind the lines. Andante con moto e malinconioso 1:10
11 No 08: The battle. Allegro e molto appassionato 3:24
12 No 09: Army at prayer. Allegro, ma non troppo 0:53
13 No 10: Dance of the dead. Vivo, con fuoco 0:51

Arabesques, Op 42 (Ornstein)
14 No 1: The isle of Elephantine 1:49
15 No 2: Primal echo 1:40
16 No 3: Chant of Hindoo priests 1:31
17 No 4: Shadowed waters 0:40
18 No 5: A melancholy landscape 1:21
19 No 6: Pompeian fresco 0:50
20 No 7: Passion 0:26
21 No 8: Les basoches 0:34
22 No 9: The wailing and raging wind 1:29
23
Impressions de la Tamise, Op 13 No 1 (Ornstein) 7:57

Piano Sonata No 8 (Ornstein)
24 Movement 1: Life's turmoil and a few bits of satire 13:52
25 Movement 2a: A trip to the attic – A tear or two for a childhood forever gone. The bugler 0:48
26 Movement 2b: A lament for a lost boy 2:00
27 Movement 2c: A half-mutilated cradle – Berceuse 2:25
28 Movement 2d: First carousel ride and sources of a hurdy-gurdy 1:31
29 Movement 3: Disciplines and improvisations 9:34