Discography

Piers Hellawell collections on Metronome and Delphian Recordings:

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‘UP BY THE ROOTS’ – NOW AVAILABLE

‘This disc of music from the last decade showcases the sheer diversity and strength of composer Piers Hellawell's work… Music for concentrated and serious listening’

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· DELPHIAN RECORDINGS DCD34223; released end-February 2020

· Up By The Roots (+), atria @, Ground Truthing*, Piani, Latebre (^), Wild Flow (**)

· Performed by Fidelio Trio and Sinéad Morrissey (+), Huw Watkins and Paul Watkins (@) Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble (*), William Howard (^), Ulster Orchestra conducted by Paul Watkins (**)

AIRS, WATERS - NOW AVAILABLE

'the vividness of Hellawell's ideas, the deftness of their execution and exploration, his effective use of abrupt contrasts....'

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· DELPHIAN RECORDINGS DCD34114; released end-April 2012

· Agricolas+, Airs, Waters and Floating Islands@, Etruscan Games*, Basho@, Degrees of Separation+ and Jan Palac and the Flaming Skier**

· Performed by Robert Plane (cl), RTE NSOI conducted Pierre-Andre Valade (+), Mary Dullea(@) Fidelio Trio (*), Mary Dullea and Darragh Morgan (**)

DOGS AND WOLVES - NOW AVAILABLE

'Who Let the Dogs Out? Here's an evocative and engaging showpiece'

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· METRONOME RECORDINGS MET CD1076; released end-April 2008

· Cors de chasse+, Weaver of Grass*, Driftwood on Sand@, The Building of Curves*, Dogs and Wolves+

· Performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (+), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet (@) and The Schubert Ensemble (*)

INSIDE STORY

· METRONOME RECORDINGS MET CD1059; released March 2002

· Inside Story+, The Still Dancers *, Quadruple Elegy (in the time of freedom)+

· Performed by Clio Gould, Philip Dukes, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (+) and RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet (*)

· BBC Music Magazine Orchestral CD of the Month, July 2002 

SOUND CARVINGS

· METRONOME RECORDINGS, MET CD 1029; released June 1998

· Sound Carvings From The Water’s Edge*, Truth Or Consequences+, Sound Carvings from the Ice Wall+, Memorial Cairns*, Sound Carvings from Rano Raraku+ · Performed byPsappha (+) and Scottish Ensemble (*) 

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Other CD recordings:

· Ice Feathers/Narwhal Joust Markus Maskuniitty (horn) and Martin Sturfält (pf) on Northern Horizons, BIS Recordings, December 2025, BIS 2712

· Minnesang (2009), Sarah Watts (bass clarinet) and Antony Clare (piano) on Timeless Shades - Music for bass clarinet and piano by British-based composers, CUILLIN SOUND CUILL1002 (2-CD set). Available from www.cuillinsoundmusic.co.uk

· Das Leonora Notenbuch, Basho, Clare Hammond (piano solo) on Piano Polyptych, ASC Prima Facie, September 2011, PFCD007

· The Hilliard Songbook, Hilliard Ensemble on A Hilliard Songbook, 1996 ECM New Series 1614/15 453 259-2

· Truth Or Consequences (1991) and Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You (1989) on Making A Song And Dance, Neuma Records, May 1998 Neuma 450-97

· High Citadels (1994) for clarinet and piano, CD recording on Metier Recordings, June 1998 MSV CD92013

· A White Room for easy piano quartet, on NMC CD collection A White Room, February 2001 NMC D 075