Artist: Hebrides Ensemble Title: Helen Grime: Chamber Music Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Delphian Records Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 96.0kHz + Booklet Total Time: 01:06:34 Total Size: 1.05 gb Tracklist 01. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: I. The Clouds 02. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: II. Décor 03. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: III. Absinthe 04. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: IV. Suicide 05. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: V. The Church 06. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: VI. Sunset 07. Seven Pierrot Miniatures: VII. The Harp 08. Snow and Snow: I. 09. Snow and Snow: II. 10. Snow and Snow: III. 11. To See the Summer Sky: I. With freedom 12. To See the Summer Sky: II. With energy 13. To See the Summer Sky: III. Very still 14. To See the Summer Sky: IV. Moto (With energy) 15. Five North-Eastern Scenes: I. Suspended, dreamlike 16. Five North-Eastern Scenes: II. Gently flowing, sweetly 17. Five North-Eastern Scenes: III. Dark, lamenting 18. Five North-Eastern Scenes: IV. Exuberant / very still 19. Five North-Eastern Scenes: V. A slow processional, always distant, restrained 20. Harp of the North 21. Braid Hills: I. Freely 22. Braid Hills: II. Rhythmic and exuberant 23. Braid Hills: III. From a distance 24. Into the Faded Air: I. Con moto 25. Into the Faded Air: II. Lento 26. Into the Faded Air: III. Agitato 27. Into the Faded Air: IV. Grave Hebrides Ensemble continues its acclaimed series of albums devoted to the work of contemporary Scottish composers with this survey of chamber music by Helen Grime. Seven Pierrot Miniatures, commissioned by the Ensemble in 2010, ranges from dream-like melancholy to mischief and mania in its response to moods derived from Albert Giraud’s moonstruck symbolism. Harp of the North, for solo piano, and the string sextet Into the Faded Air move beyond their extra-musical stimuli (evocations of the natural world prompted by the poetry of, respectively, Walter Scott and T.S. Eliot) into purely musical explorations of texture and melodic patterning, while four other works for a variety of instrumental duos and trios reveal inspirations ranging from the painter Joan Eardley to the ‘outdoor’ associations of the French horn