Lara Downes - Love at Last

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Fluid

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Fluid

From NPR’s 2022 Classical Woman of the Year, Love at Last is pianist Lara Downes’s first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe. Spanning generations, continents and cultures, these diverse voices are united in a stubborn belief in the possibility of humanity, brotherhood, peace, and compassion, and in the everlasting power of love.

Lara commissioned Sean to include a work. The result, Fluid, celebrates the mental health and gender journey of the composer's daughter and weaves together two water-based themes from other works: Debussy's La Mer and Joni Mitchell's River.

An iconoclast and trailblazer, Lara Downes’s dynamic work as a sought-after soloist, a Billboard Chart-topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene.

“One of the more interesting new compositions is Sean Hickey's Fluid for the way it both references gender fluidity and, by incorporating rhythmic and harmonic elements from Debussy's La Mer and Joni Mitchell's “River,” water.” - Textura