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Labyrinths of Lowness
By Peter Sheridan, Monash University Flute Ensemble
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Monash University Flute Ensemble conducted by Peter Sheridan with Alice Bennett, solo bass flute. This CD features works
specifically composed and arranged for the low flutes ensemble,
which is a modern collection of larger flutes that play below the
tone known as middle C. On this recording are flutes that play as
low as cellos, double string basses and even tubas and organ pipes. The innovative performances of this Ensemble have added value to the growing Australian and International flute-ensemble repertoire as well as to the overall creativity of the flute family.
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1 Jesu, Meine Freude ( J.S. Bach arr Vincent Giles/Peter Sheridan)
2 Labyrinths of Lowness (Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda)
3 Romance (J. Brahms arr Ann Cameron-Pearce)
4 Anagrammata (Paul Ballam-Cross)
5 Three Short Pieces (i) Jazmine Morris
6 Three Short Pieces (ii)
7 Three Short Pieces (iii)
8 Sherill's Little Song (Houston Dunleavy)
9 Lyric Song (Michal Rosiak)
10 An Ancient Irish Melody (Brennan Keats)
11 Illuminations (arr. Nancy Nourse)
12 In The Hills (Jazmine Morris)
13 Winter's Twilight (Emma Rogers)
14 'Vos Planetarium' (Russell Scarborough)
Lady Huang's Album - CD
By Diana Weston, Michael Tsalka
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Music for one or two harpsichords.
New music from Australia and the Americas for one and two harpsichords. For those who love harpsichords and think they should have a life in the present, here is the CD for you. Harpsichordist Michael Tsalka has a world-wide reputation and well-known Australian harpsichordist Diana Weston both had many of the works dedicated to them. Recorded courtesy of Western Sydney University at the instigation of composer Diana Blom whose work lends its name to the CD.
Review by Pamela Hickman
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1 Tilting at Windmills (May Howlett)
2 Variations on a Ground (Gabriele Toia)
3 Green Leaf for Elke (Elena Kats-Chernin)
4 Sonatine (Max Yount)
5 Lady Huang's Album (Diana Blom)
6 Crimson Rosella (Ann Carr-Boyd)
7 Tocatta (Leonardo Coral)
8 Underground Currents (Benjamin Thorn)
9 Capricho (Pablo Escande)
Letters from a Black Snake
By Jeanell Carrigan
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Songs by George Palmer and Ralph Vaughan WilliamsBarry Ryan (baritone) and Jeanell Carrigan (piano)
Letters from a Black Snake [1-5] are based on words written in letters by Ned Kelly himself. Set masterfully by George Palmer providing a sympathetic picture of Ned Kelly as a literate, much-maligned and wronged, intelligent and sensitive man. The song cycle was commissioned by Ernst & Young, in 2007, to mark the opening of a major retrospective of the works of Sidney Nolan, who identified himself with Kelly and painted a series of pictures of episodes in Kelly's saga.
The first of the five songs is a short note written by Ned at the age of 15, seeking the help of a police sergeant in finding work and introduces himself as the persona ‘the black snake’ which is how the townspeople are beginning to characterise him. The last is a letter to the Governor of Victoria, written hours before Ned was hanged, in which Ned asks for the release of his mother from prison and requests that he be buried in consecrated ground. The letters reveal Ned as an intelligent and resourceful man, despite a lack of formal education. He can be lyrical, even poetic, and the next moment almost incoherent with rage.
Cloudstreet [6-7] is a novel written in 1991 by Tim Winton. It tells the story of two families from working class backgrounds, the Pickles and the Lambs who happen to live together in a house in Perth, called Cloudstreet, over a period of twenty years.
Figures from an Urban Landscape [8-10]. A cycle of three songs depicting the city and suburbs of Sydney. Words by well renowned poets - Judith Wright, Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor.
Songs of Travel [11-19], composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams to poems from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection of Songs of Travel and Other Verses, is a cycle of nine songs for baritone voice and piano.
CD cover painting by Sidney Nolan Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek, 1946. 91 x 121.7 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra with permission.
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[1 - 5] Letters from a Black Snake
i To Sergeant Babington
ii They know I have wronged
iii Bullock Creek
iv The Murder
v In conclusion
[6] Dolly, Dolly (from Cloudstreet)
[7] Lester's Aria (from Cloudstreet)
[8-10] Figures from an Urban Landscape
The Beach (from The Surfer - Judith Wright)
Suburban Reverie (Bruce Dawe)
The Harbour (from Five Bells - Kenneth Slessor)
[11-19] Songs of Travel
The Vagabond
Let Beauty Awake
The Roadside Fire
Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Whither must I wander
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have trod the upward and downward slope
Little Lovely Dream, A - CD
By Hugh Dixon
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25 works composed by Hugh Dixon.Includes works for voice, piano and French horn. Performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano), Lisa Wynn-Allen and Michael Dixon (French horn) and David Miller (piano).
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1 A Little Lovely Dream
2 My True Love Hath My Heart
3 Tiger, Tiger
Five Shakespeare Songs (4-10)
4 Sweet Music's Power
5 Fairy Song
6 Fear No More
7 Titania's Lullaby
9 Horses on the Camargue
10 The Blue Wrens and the Butcher-bird
Nocturnes (11-18)
11 To-night the winds begin to rise
12 High Tide
13 To the Moon
14 Nightingales
15 Tears
16 Mad Song
17 The Mystic's Prayer
18 Daybreak
Songs of Mystic Jade (19-25)
19 Return of Spring
20 Set Free
21 Fascination
22 Tranquil Repose
23 Despondent
24 Concentration
25 Motion
Print music for most of the works are available online.
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LOCANA'S World - CD
By Various Composers
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For flute, violin, cello, horn performed by LOCANA.A collection of ensemble works composed by Taran Carter, Hugh Dixon, Horace Keats, John Wayne Dixon, Peter Rankine, Houston Dunleavy and Michael H Dixon. Performed by Janine Grantham (flute and piccolo), Michael H Dixon (horn), Paula Newcomb, Sarah Knox (violins), Shannon Tobin, Matthew Farrell (cellos).
Print music for all the works are available online.
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Perverse Exit Songs (Taran Carter) (1-3)
1 Entrance
2 Maddison
3 Emergency Exit Only
4 The Enchanted Garden (Hugh Dixon)
5 Movement (Horace Keats)
Niblets, Op.12 (John Wayne Dixon) (6-8)
6 Duet
7 Commotion
8 Canto
A Foursome of Twosomes, Op.6 (John Wayne Dixon) (9-10)
9 Twosome One
10 Twosome Two
Postcards from America (Houston Dunleavy) (11-14)
11 Los Angeles12 Grand Canyon
13 Chicago Bean
14 New York City
15 Fire by Fire (Peter Rankine)
16 Arise, Awake (Michae H Dixon)
May in Black and White
By May Howlett
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A collection of piano works by May Howlett recorded by the Italian pianist and well known on the International stage, Alessandra Garosi. May's piano compositions have been in popular demand for many years and demand an astute pianistic ability because as Larry Sitsky once said in relation to her work, "There's always a sting in the tail". Alessandra lives in Tuscany and has studied and performed many times in Australia.Wirr072
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At the Circus [1-3]
1 Parade 2 Catherine Wheels
3 The Pink Ballerina on a White Horse
Salutes to the Sun [4-6]
4 Corona: A Halo for the Sung
5 A Cicada's Hymn to the Sun
6 Cathedrals of Flame
Kryptiques[7-12]
7 One Down 8 Two Down
9 Two Across 10 Three Down
11 Three Across 12 Four Across
Waves [13-15]
13 Ripples
14 In the Keep of Davey Jones
15 Tides
Stimmungen [16-21]
16 Prelude 17 Heavy and Light
18 Cloches 19 Loud and Soft
20 In the Groove 21 Back to Square One
The Bundanon Suite [22-24]
22 Boyds' River
23 Shoalhaven Twilight with Wombats
24 Riversdale Reach
Passing the Tower of Agrievements [25-27]
25 Toccata 26 Elegy 27 Furioso
Mermaids - CD
By John Wayne Dixon
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Music by John Wayne DixonWorks performed by Lotte Latukefu, Pamela Mildenhall (voice), Julia Ryder (cello), Roslyn Dunlop (clarinet), David Miller, David Vance (piano), and The Bourbaki Ensemble with David Angell (conductor).
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1 Mermaids
Songs of Love and the Night (2-6)
2 It is the Evening Hour
3 I Love all Beauteous Things
4 Night
5 Wild Nights!
6 The Summer Night was Mild
7 Giverny Idyll
8 Child of Mine
9 ... mauve-purple ...
Seasons Live, Seasons Dreamed (10-15)
10 Natures's Changes
11 New Fee Within
12 Summer Days
13 Inside
14 Autumn
15 Presentiment
Miriam Hyde Piano Concertos - CD
By Miriam Hyde
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Piano Concertos - Nos 1 & 2 are played by Miriam Hyde with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
See liner notes on the concertos compiled by Dr Houston Dunleavy.
Happy Occasion Overture - West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Mills.
Village Fair - Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dobbs Franks
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[1-3] Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat minor
i Allegro
ii Lento
iii Allegro scherzando
[4-6] Piano Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor
i Allegro maetoso
ii Andante tranquillo
iii Allegro con brio
[7] Happy Occasion Overture
[8] Village Fair
Miss Lucy Havens requests - CD
By Diana Weston
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Music-making in the homes of early Australian settlers
Danielle Grant soprano, Tara Hashambhoy violin, Angus Ryan cello, Lucy Cormack cello, Diana Weston harpsichord, square piano
This album is made up largely of material derived from a portfolio labelled ‘Lucy Havens’, part of a large sheet music collection in the keep of Sydney Living Museums. The collection, donated by Stuart Symonds, comprises upwards of 2500 individual songs and pieces that were an integral part of domestic life in colonial Australia. The music within the ‘Lucy Havens’ portfolio is of unexpectedly good quality, highly listenable and enjoyable. Taken with the whole, it is also important as an historical entity - as an insight into the society, entertainment and culture of people in the early years of colonization.
Lucy Havens (1804-1867) was born in Monimail, Fife in Scotland, and moved to Whitehaven, Cumberland in the north of England before migrating to Sydney with her family in 1839. She married twice, the first in 1850 to a former convict and successful businessman Thomas Hyndes. Following his death in 1855, to a Scottish Presbyterian minister, William Purves.
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Ignace Pleyel
Sonata in G major from ‘Six Sonatas for the Piano Forte or harpsichord with an Accompaniment for a Flute or Violin and Violoncello’
[1] (i) Allegro
[2] (ii) Adagio
[3] (iii) Allegro molto
‘Scotch Songs’ with violin obbligatos by Australian composer Ann Carr-Boyd
[4] Up in the morning early ‘A favourite Scots song set for the voice, Piano-forte or Harpsichord by John Hamilton’
[5] Gloomy Winter’s now awa’ ‘by R. Tannahill with an accompaniment by R.A. Smith’
[6] Within a mile of Edinburgh ‘A celebrated Scotch Song by Mr Hook’
[7] Robin Adair (trad.) ‘A favourite Song sung at all the Glee Clubs’
John Ross
[8] ‘An Admired Scotish [sic] Air arranged with variations for the Piano Forte’
A medley of Gaelic dances
[9] The Waterloo Strathspey and Reel by Nathaniel Gow
[10] The Roxburgh Ball Waltz and Reel by Nathaniel Gow
[11] Mr. Wilson’s Strathspey and Rope Dance ‘arranged for the Piano forte or Violin and Violoncello by Mr. Clarkson’
William Browne
[12] Three short waltzes from ‘Collection of Waltzes for the Piano Forte’
From The Gaelic Old Smuggler Hotch-Potch 6th edition 1911
[13] Lady Carolina Nairne (1766 – 1845) The Land o’ the Leal
[14] Medley (trad.) Lament for the dead of the battlefield; The reel of Tulloch; Johnnie Cope
Review by Early Music Association
Movement CD
By Horace Keats
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Vocal and Chamber Music by Horace Keats (1895-1945), performed by soprano Louise Page and pianist Phillipa Candy and The Linden String Quartet formed with artists from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Marina Marsden and Emily Long (violins), Justine Marsden (viola), Elizabeth Neville (cello), as well as Janet Webb (flute).This CD of Keats' music presents the opportunity to demonstrate that his compositions extended beyond songs written for voice and piano, for which he is so well known, and that his musical output is far broader than people know and so is worthy of attention.
The performance by these outstanding musicians displays colour and sensitivity with rare musical intuition in interpreting this fine composer.
Sheet music available.
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Concert at National Portrait Gallery on 15th November 2015 - YouTube
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- Two Movements for String Quartet (1-2)
- 1. (i) Sea Wraith
- 2. (ii) Allegro Ampolloso
- 3. Echo
- 4. Quietly Dreaming (arr. Brennan Keats)
- 5. In What Other Places do You Live?
- 6. Plucking the Rushes
- 7. The Fishing Pools
- 8. The Point of Noon
- 9. Yellow Bracken
- 10. Early in Autumn
- 11. Movement
Mozart in Love - CD
By Various Composers
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For oboe, cor anglais, flute, trumpet and string orchestra perfromed by Rachel Tolmie and The Bourbaki Ensemble conducted by David Angell with guest soloists, Amanda Muir (flute) and Andrew De Riccio (trumpet). Works by Aaron Copland, Swan Hennessy, Phillip Wilcher, Charles Ives, Alan Ridout, Colin Brumby and Arthur Honegger.
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1 Mozart in Love (Phillip Wilcher)
2 Quiet City (Aaron Copland)
Concertino for Cor Anglais and String Orchestra (Alan Ridout) [3-5]
3 Plaint 4 Canons 5 Psalm
Four Pieces Celtiques, Op 59 (Swan Hennessy) [6-9]
6 Allegretto 7 Adagio
8 Allegro 9 Allegro
10 Into His Countenance (Phillip Wilcher)
11 Scena (Colin Brumby)
12 1791 (Phillip Wilcher)
13 The Rainbow (Charles Ives)
Concerto Da Camera (Arthur Honegger) [14-16]
14 Allegretto amable
15 Andante 16 Vivace
Music for the Salon Trio - CD
By Jeanell Carrigan
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Goetz Richter (violin), Minah Choe (cello), Jeanell Carrigan (piano)
On the 23rd of October 1911, the recently formed Salon Trio gave their first recital at the St. James Hall in Sydney. The players were Miss Dorothy Curtis, violin, Miss Florence E. Brown, ‘cello and Miss Mirrie Solomon [Hill], piano. This was a significant occasion because it marked the presentation of a new chamber music ensemble consisting of piano, violin, and cello, playing compositions of a genre not yet extensively explored in Australia. The program consisted of trios by Schott, Vidor, Grieg and Mendelssohn . At the time Sydney did not have a strong chamber music tradition and there are no reviews or notifications of any other permanent piano trio to be found. This was an all-female group of instrumentalists, performing in a public venue, also highly unusual. However, over time the pianists were replaced by Iris de Cairos-Rego, then Frank Hutchens (who was a good friend of Alfred Hill) and so these three pianists, also composers, wrote pieces for the trio., as did Alfred Hill.
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Piano Trio in A Minor (1912) Iris de Cairos-Rego
Andante moderato
Allegretto moderato
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Trio for Pianoforte, Violin and Cello (1916) Mirrie Hill
Allegro maestoso
Scherzando
Andante con moto
Allegro
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1914) Frank Hutchens
Maestoso – Allegro
Trio in A Minor (c. 1915) Alfred Hill
Allegro con brio
Waiata Aroha (A Māori Love Song) - Andante
Finale – Allegro moderato
