As ever, Kenneth Hesketh issues musical challenges that are engrossing and ultimately rewarding. Composed between 2006 and 2023, this seventy-minute collection rivets the attention, whether the music is fiercely combative, glacially lyrical, intensely expressive or delicate, the latter quality worthy of Debussy or Ravel albeit in a style different to either. In Poetic Conceits, one … Continue reading Paladino Music releases “Hände – Music for Piano” by Kenneth Hesketh played by Clare Hammond.