Rückblick: New Piano Music Inspired by Brahms

NOW AVAILABLE on the FURIOUS ARTISANS LABEL and Spotify

Contact Ann directly for physical copies of the discs.

Design by Marc Wolf

Tracks from this album have been featured on:

  • WFMT, Chicago
  • WRUW, Cleveland
  • WSMR, Tampa (Modern Notebook)
  • WMBR, Cambridge, MA (Not Brahms and Liszt)
  • WKCR, Columbia University, New York City
  • and Minnesota Public Radio (Friday Favorites)

Reviews

  • “… played beautifully and with elegant style.” The American Prize in Piano Performance (solo), 2021

  • “The depth of programming and playing in DuHamel’s latest album … is striking. … The lush harmonies … showcase DuHamel’s range of sound and full melodic tone. … A virtuosic closer, showing DuHamel’s clear voicing and vibrant sense of color.” Piano Magazine, Autumn 2021, Volume 13, No.3.

  • “… forward-thinking classical pianist… Player and composers are in synch here.” Midwest Record Review, Vol. 44/354, October 17, 2020.

  • “Pianists, new music connoisseurs, and lovers of piano music in general, do yourself a favor and check out this new disc by Ann DuHamel. Ambitious and relevant commissioning concept, wonderful and varied music, and sublime, truly terrific playing throughout. If you’re going to do a piano CD these days, do one like this…wow!!!” Pianist Nicholas Phillips, Professor of Music-Piano at University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, enthusiastic proponent and performer of contemporary music (Facebook post, March 2021).

  • In the Dutch publication Piano Bulletin (January 2023), reviewer Olga de Kort wrote that Rückblick is “an extraordinary, fascinating CD … The album is musically very strong … Kudos to the pianist who [assembled] a collection so passionate, technically excellent and inspiring …”

  • Check out the interview with Dan Kepl/Performing Arts Review on my “incredible Furious Artisans 2020 album“:

Ann’s performance of Dr. Brahms’s Book of Rags by Marc Chan was a finalist in The American Prize in Piano Performance (Solo), 2021, receiving a Special Judges’ Citation: “Championing the Music of Marc Chan.”

The album was also a finalist for BEST ALBUM (performance or competition) in the 2022 Petrichor International Music Competition.

Abridged program notes can be read here // *complete notes in the album booklet.