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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Peter Sheppard Skærved and Roderick Chadwick's premiere recording of Michael Hersch's #ZwischenLebenUndTod from Pizzicato!

“In Michael Hersch’s music, unconditionally radical human abysses are explored without embellishment.… Through [these artists], this cycle becomes audible as a means of exploring the musical translations of proportion. …a rich source of material for engagement.” —Uwe Krusch by @firstinversionmusic

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2 months ago

RELEASE ME
words and music by @alexjmills

Jess Dandy, contralto
@roderickchadwick piano

from LOOK HOW BRIGHTLY
the debut album of composer, Alex Mills

@delphian_records

audio @paul.andhis.neumanns
video @benreason_photo
venue St John the Evangelist, Oxford
piano @steinwayhalluk
recorded July 2025

#contralto #newmusic #newalbum #piano #contemporarymusic

@askonasholt @rowan.bidmead

Clothing @toast taken in St. John The Evangelist, Iffley Road by @firstinversionmusic

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Don't miss the latest singles and releases from Divine Art and Métier in the New Classical Playlists on Spotify and Deezer!

🎧 Deezer New Classical ➡️ listn.fm/deezerclassical
🎧 Spotify New Classical ➡️ listn.fm/spotifyclassicalnew by @firstinversionmusic

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🎻 Métier Records is proud today to present Michael Hersch’s monumental chamber work Zwischen Leben und Tod (Between Life and Death) performed by violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and pianist Roderick Chadwick, marking the label debut of one of the most gifted composers of his generation.

Available now on all platforms via listn.fm/hersch by @firstinversionmusic

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Don't miss the British Music Society's feature for @jim_aitchison: Piano Quintets from Roderick Chadwick and the Kreutzer Quartet!

“These are both thought-provoking compositions… the listener’s attention is held by the almost kaleidoscopic progress of the music. The performances are completely committed and convincing.” —Martyn Strachan by @firstinversionmusic

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The final single from Peter Sheppard Skærved and Roderick Chadwick’s recording of “Michael Hersch: Zwischen Leben und Tod” is out now on all digital platforms – and featured as a Spotify New Classical Pick!

🎶 Listen now ➡️ listn.fm/hersch

“A piece of music begins from silence. Is there for a moment. And then is gone. I think that we can all relate to that.

It was another great American composer, George Rochberg, who introduced me to Michael Hersch in 2004, and impressed upon me the necessity to work with him. George died the following year. In the initial year of our meeting, Hersch wrote a first small piece for me, Five Fragments. This was the beginning of our friendship and collaboration, and the first step of my journey with his music and into his imaginative universe. George was right: Hersch’s music became essential to my creative life, each journey into a new work offering new challenges and insights.

Zwischen Leben und Tod [Between Life and Death]: the title of Hersch’s cycle for piano and violin reaches out across my understanding of all of his work. In the two decades that I have played his music and been able to work with him, it is the transience of humanity, its attendant beauties of joy and pain that is all pervasive and is, perhaps, its over-arching theme. Consequently, it is impossible for me to think about any of his works in isolation: Zwischen Leben und Tod exists in concert, in my hands and understanding, in a great conversation with his other works so important to me.” —Peter Sheppard Skærved by @firstinversionmusic

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3 months ago

Early bird on March 7th: I'll be performing solo piano works by Durham students, plus the first UK performance in public of Sandy Goehr's 'Surrounding Silences', Messiaen, Howell and Cowie in a morning concert as part of the MUSICON series, 1130 in the Dept of Music on Palace Green. Link to listings in the comments. by @firstinversionmusic

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5 months ago

Interesting album, a real assortment of vibes. by @firstinversionmusic

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5 months ago

Fantastic to see @roderickchadwick and the Kreutzer Quartet's single of @jim_aitchison's Prelude from Piano Quintet No. 2 “Trainsience” and @daheekim.pianist's single of Nicholas Scott-Burt's Prelude No. 9 in @spotify's New Classical Playlist!

🎧 listn.fm/spotifyclassicalnew by @firstinversionmusic

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6 months ago

Métier is thrilled to release the first movement from Roderick Chadwick and the Kreutzer Quartet's recording of Jim Aitchison's Piano Quintet No. 2, “Transcience”.

🎧 Listen now on all top streaming outlets 👉 listn.fm/aitchisonpianoquintets
▶️ #nowplaying in Spotify's New Classical Playlist: listn.fm/spotifyclassicalnew

Jim Aitchison's second piano quintet began its life in a series of conversations with the indefatigable owner of Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in Cornwall, Neil Armstrong, and with the similarly indefatigable violinist and heroic new music champion Peter Sheppard Skærved. The conversations eventually grew into a fully formed project funded by Arts Council England and supported by the Royal Academy of Music and Falmouth University. by @firstinversionmusic

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Métier is delighted to present the first track in the 20 February release of Jim Aitchison: Piano Quintets! World Premiere recordings from Roderick Chadwick and the Kreutzer Quartet.

🎧 Listen to the opening Chorale & Prelude from Piano Quintet No. 1 today in our bio link.

The two piano quintets from composer Jim Aitchison draw on his unique dual practice as composer and artist, creating music that responds to encounters with powerful works of art by leading visual artists. The collaboration between music, art, and artistry came together as part of a project with the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, “Hearing Shadows Wordless Light”. by @firstinversionmusic

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New single out from @jim_aitchison Quintetsx2. It's longer than Bohemian Rhapsody - and just as operatic. I could add more adjectives to say how good it is but will leave you to decide. Remarkably good album cover though, eh? Link in bio naturally (soon...) by @firstinversionmusic

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