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New Art Song of the Pacific Rim CD
By Blom, Hanrahan
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Kevin Hanrahan, tenor and Diana Blom, piano
Containing music from five countries around the Pacific Rim – Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, USA and Japan – this program of new art song explores settings of poetry and letters written over several centuries. US composer, Gwyneth W. Walker, set letters by John Muir, a 19th century American naturalist and early advocate for the preservation of US wilderness areas, and Australian composer, Diana Blom, set poems of 19th and 20th century American writers, Hartley Burr Alexander, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in a Portrait of America. Colombian-based composer, Moisès Bertran Ventejo, set three poems of Josep Janés, a Catalan poet of the first half of the 20th century. New Zealand composers Anthony Ritchie, Chris Adams and Clare Maclean have set poems of New Zealand poets James K. Baxter, Sam Hunt, Brian Turner and Gillis Maclean, from across the 20th century and into the 21st. West Australian composer, Alex Turley, set texts from the 8th century by Tang dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu and from the 21st century by West Australian poet, Caroline McAllister. The three Japanese art songs by Közaburo Hirai and Hattori Tadashi are settings of poems by Kitahara Hakushū, Kitami Shihoko and Ōki Atsuo, all written in the first half of the 20th century.
Wirr 094
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[1] Glory in the Mountains (Gwyneth W Walker)
[2] Ice! (Gwyneth W Walker)
[3] My Father Today (Anthony Ritchie)
[4] Song (Anthony Ritchie)
[5] El somni meu en els teus ulls – My dream in your eyes (Moisès Bertran Ventejo)
[6] Un horitzó de glòries – A horizon of glories (Moisès Bertran Ventejo)
[7] Suau, la teva veu – Softly, your voice (Moisès Bertran Ventejo)
[8] Stars Alone (Alex Turley)
[9] I am Sleepless (Alex Turley)
[10] Oiwake – A piper blows (Kōzaburo Hirai)
[11] Narayama (Kōzaburo Hirai)
[12] Sheep in the fields (Hattori Tadashi)
[13] ] ‘a seagull’s shadow’ (Clare Maclean)
[14] Afternoon (Chris Adams)
[15] The last song (Diana Blom)
[16] Indian prayer (Diana Blom)
[17] I am the little Irish boy (Diana Blom)
[18] A shadow (Diana Blom)
[19] The last song (Reprise) (Diana Blom)
New Flute, The
By Miriam Hyde
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For solo piano, c.0'45. Preliminary grade AMEB syllabus
Composed 1975
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ISMN 9790720249780
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New Galaxy
By Keyna Wilkins
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Clarinet, piano and nebulae audio backing. Grade 6
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Tempo: Slow
Genre: Meditative, Space Age
Brief description: This work is a meditation on the formation of a galaxy. It has no bar lines, just pitches and phrasing suggestions. The rhythm is up to the performers. The space sounds create a sonic foundation of pitches that the piece is based on.
Youtube (for a different combination of instruments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Composed 2017
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- Youtube (for a different combination of instruments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=moZOQG8DCn4
ISMN 9790720226361
Nebulae download: Sound file
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New Music for Multiple Keyboards
By Blom, Hannan
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for piano, toy piano, harpsichord, MIDI piano
Diana Blom and Michael Hannan, the curators and producers of this double CD of new music for multiple keyboards, were students together at the Department of Music of the University of Sydney in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both were also studying harpsichord with Dorothy White in this period.When she was on the staff of ABC music in the mid-1970s, Diana Blom produced recordings of Michael Hannan playing Peter Sculthorpe's Koto Musics and Landscape, works that involve multitracking of extended technique piano parts.These recordings were subsequently released on a Move Records LP and later re-released on several Move Records CDs.In 2006 Diana and Michael presented concerts of a dozen or so of their solo piano works in both Sydney where Diana lives, and in Nimbin where Michael lives.The concerts included performances by them of Diana's The Green Man Dances for piano duet.This piece was included on the Multiple Keyboards project but played, on this occasion, by Jennifer MacRitchie and Pablo Puentes.Since that piano performance project, Michael and Diana have collaborated on several composition repertoire-creation projects, notably the Shadows and Silhouettes performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2010.This project, initially involving Australian composers writing piano pieces influenced by Chinese culture, was eventually taken up by Italian pianist, Antonietta Loffredo, resulting in the Shadows and Silhouettes CD (Wirripang, Wirr 047, 2012) which includes Chinese culture-inspired works from Australia, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia.The idea of the "Multiple Keyboards" project sprang from these earlier experiences.In discussion, Diana and Michael felt they would like to create an album of new works that fitted the general principle of two or more keyboardists playing on one or more keyboard instruments.The instrumentation is dominated by pianos and toy pianos (and combinations thereof), but there is one work for multi-tracked harpsichords and another for multi-tracked MIDI electric pianos.
Wirr 089
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DISC 1
Cloudcatcher I (Michael Hannan)
1. i Flight
2. ii Meditation
3. iii Vibration
4. iv Birdsong
5. Music Battuta: Double Toy Piano Étude for One Soloist No. 438 (Andrián Pertout)
6. Two Chinese Folk Songs - "Little Cabbage" (Diana Blom)
7. Impromobile - Take 2 (Michael Hannan)
8. Sunshower (Felicity Martin)
9. Two Chinese Folk Songs - "Fisherman's Joy" (Diana Blom)
10. Calder's Surprise - Take 2 (Diana Blom)
11. Drawing Firewheels (Diana Blom)
Landscape/Soundscape I (Michael Hannan)
12. i 13. ii 14. iii
15. Braided River (Diana Blom)
DISC 2
1. Freefall (Diana Blom)
2. Holding Masks (Paul Smith)-
3. After the rain (Diana Blom)
4. Impromobile - Take 2 (Michael Hannan)
Riff Madness III (Michael Hannan)
5. i 6. ii 7. iii
8. The Greenmann Dance (Diana Blom)
9. Calder's Surprise - Take 1 (Diana Blom)
10. Clutter (Paul Smith)
11. River Circles (Diana Blom
12. Landscape/Soundscape II (Michael Hannan)
New Tenant, The, Op.2 No.2
By Sofia Chapman
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Piano Accordion, c. 2'00. Grade 4
From the play by the composer “The Four Accordionists of the Apocalypse".
The story briefly - Frigg, Norse Goddess of Fertility, descends to Earth to see why she’s no longer worshipped and to address a crisis in human fertility. She decides to have an apocalypse and books as musicians Vita Bellows, for whom the accordion is a revelation, as well others seeking work such as Valkyries and midwives. But when Vita’s accordion comes to life, representing all human made objects in the final showdown, Frigg fears the destructive force of the accordion may indicate a ‘Twilight of the Gods’. The New Tenant - performed in the play by the ‘apocalyptic beast’, an accordion that comes to life.
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ISMN 9790720249483
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New York Torch Song
By David Henderson
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Clarinet in Bb and piano, c.2'50 Grade 6 Composed 2019
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ISMN 9790720227269
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Niblets
By John Wayne Dixon
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Violin 1, 2 or Viola, Cello. c.7'00
Recorded with flute, violin, cello on the CD, LOCANA's World (Wirr 014) available online https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/products/locanas-world
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ISMN M720041001
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Night Moods
By Betty Beath
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Flute and piano, c.3'10. Grade 8The piece begins and concludes with sections that suggest a languid, improvisatory character or mood in which the use of rubato is encouraged; here the piano responds with small, supportive gestures, the middle section being a warm, musical embrace. Composed 2007
Recorded on the CD, Flute Odyssey, by Emma Knott (flute) and David Miller (piano) (Wirr 016) available online
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ISMN M720072418
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Night Music
By Houston Dunleavy
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Piano for 4 hands, c.9'00. Composed 1996
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- 1. From Dusk c.2'15
- 2. Lullaby, c.2'30
- 3. From Dawn, c.3'00
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ISMN M720011721
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Night Shadows Dancing
By Learne Faint
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Solo piano, c.7'15 . Certificate level
This poetic Neo Romantic soundscape showcases beautiful intertwining melodies which weave hypnotically between the hands. Featuring haunting melodic lines, syncopation, additive rhythms, rich chordal play, sparkling runs and so much more.
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ISMN 9790720227061
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Night Ship, The
By Diana Blom
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Solo piano, c.4'55. Grade 7
This highly evocative work begins with distant tolling of the ship’s bell and ripples in the water. As the ship gets closer, the waves get bigger and the mood become more menacing.
Composed 2014
Recorded and edited by Katie Zhukov for Australian Women Composers' Piano Anthology available online https://youtu.be/_UpMBo1-cRI
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ISMN9790720227528
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Night Songs
By Betty Beath
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Two pieces for solo alto and bass recorder. c.3'45 and 2'30The composer states: "the sound of the recorder is strongly linked with nature: sounds you might hear as you walk a forest path, ancient and elemental images that might come to mind. These two pieces have a quality of languor we might associate with the night." Composed 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdaLMBCKM4
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ISMN 9790720151175
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