Raymond Deane - Scintillae Raymond Deane

Scintillae by Raymond Deane is a new CD featuring piano works composed across Deane’s prolific career including Orphica (1969-1971), Linos I/II (1973), Triarchia (1977-8), Raccordement (2017) and Scintillae (2021). These works are vibrantly played by pianist Moritz Ernst throughout.

For fifty years, the piano has been the backbone of Raymond Deane’s creative output. This journey began at age sixteen with the first Orphic Piece, a work that set the stage for a career defined by breaking contemporary taboos. Rejecting both the strict rules of traditional keys and the lawlessness of atonality, Deane creates his own temporary musical structures, constantly building them up and dismantling them again. For him, composition is a process of conflict and negotiation, allowing for the options of resolution and impasse, utopia and dystopia. and only occasionally taking refuge in neutrality, all the while striking parallels to the political world around us.

The international press has praised pianist Moritz Ernst highly for his superb recordings, with Classical Music Magazine awarding him its highest rating. Gramophone praised his sparkling and stimulating interpretations all of which are in evidence here on Scintillae.

The gatefold ecopack CD features images by Renate Debrun. The CD comes with a digital album including a pdf booklet with full liner notes by Raymond Deane.