Classical
Double Resonances
By Bruce Crossman
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Compositions by Bruce Crossman performed by Lotte Latukefu, Merlinda Bobis, Ian Munro, Jim Franklin, New Asia String Quartet, Jeanell Carrigan, Tom McGrath, Bernadette Balkus, Claire Edwardes.
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1 Daragang Magayon Cantata
2 In Gentleness and Suddenness
3 Fierce Tranquillity
5 After Resonance Blues
6 Double Resonances
Echo - The Songs of Horace Keats
By Horace Keats
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Wendy Dixon, soprano, John Pringle, baratone, Marina Marsden, violin, and David Miller, piano. A collection of art songs composed by Horace Keats.
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1 Yellow Bracken
2 In What Other Places Do You Live?
3 Love's Secret
4 The Orange Tree
5 Sea-Wraith
6 Galleons
7 We Sat Entwined
8 Sun After Rain
9 I am Shut Out of Mine Own Heart
10 White Heather
11 Of Old, On Her Terrace At Evening
12 The Trespass
13 Echo
14 Columbine
15 The Point of Noon
16 Moonlit Apples
17 Spring Breezes
18 Fear
19 Heaven Haven
20 Versicle
21 Over the Quiet Waters
22 Goldfish
23 Plucking the Rushes
24 The Fishing Pools
25 Once I Could Sit By the Fire Hour Long
26 The Roads Beside the Sea
27 Drake's Call
Escapades
By John Carmichael
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Chamber music by John Carmichael. In this recording, melody andEscapades is performed by Sylvie Leprohon flute, Stephen Robinson oboe, Antony Gray piano.
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Escapades - flute, oboe and piano
1. Games
2. Idyll
3. Escaping the Blues
4. To a Happy Ending
Fantasy Sonata - flute and piano
5. Allegro moderato
6. Lento7. Allegro vivac
Postcards - piano
8. Russian Song
9. Autumn Spell
10. Courtly Dance
11. Solitaire
12 . Caribbeanonatan - Music Grave and Gay - oboe and piano
13. Allegro moderato
14. Lento15. Allegro
16. Nocturne for Eve
Fandango Returns! CD
By Ann Carr-boyd
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Music by Ann Carr-Boyd
One of the most rewarding things about writing music is the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most interesting people in the world. All the people and performers listed on these CDs (and many more who unfortunately can’t all be fitted on to two CDs) have enriched my life with their musicality and their warmth of friendship. The years I spent with the Sydney Mandolins in the 1980s and onwards were just wonderful. I wrote at least 12 different works for them - and all were rehearsed to the most high point of performance and interpretation. Little did we know at the time that Fandango would become so well known - but we have all been happy to see Fandango launch out into the world with a whole adventurous life of its own. Ann Carr-Boyd 2018
This double compilation consists of works performed by: The Sydney Mandolins; Diana Weston, harpsichord; Danielle Grant, soprano; Tara Hashambuoy, violin; Joanne Arnott, recorder; Rita Woolhouse, cello; Paul Champion, clarinet; Tony Baldwin, piano; Edgars Kariks, flute; Susan Blake, cello; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arnold Butcher; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conductor Patrick Thomas, pianist Sally Mays; Sydney Symphony Fellows; Cedar-Rose Newman, violin; Lina Lee, violin; John Martin, piano and Ann Carr-Boyd, piano.
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Disc One
1 Fandango (1982)
2 Argizagi Ederra (1976)
3 Nadir (1973)
Flying West (2014) [4-11]
4 Flying West 5 Bumpy Ride
6 Interlude I
7 Wings from the Sky
8 Interlude II 9 Red Earth
10 The Clinic 11 The Return
12 On the Shores of Aswan (1994)
Suite for Flute and Harpsichord (1990) [13-16]
13 Prelude 14 Badinerie
15 American Dream
16 Toccata
17 Music for an Imaginary Italian Film (1985)
18 Starburst (2002)
Beneath the Yellow Moon (2004/5) [9-21]
19 Beneath the Yellow Moon
20 Billabong
21 Dreamtime haze
22 Titan (2004)
Disc Two
1 Images of Australia (1988)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [2-4]
2 Mvt. 1 3 Mvt. 2 4 Mvt. 3
5 Rag for Razz (2007)
6 A Day in Taralga (2003)
7 Harp in the Highlands (2003)
8 Prelude (1988)
The Razz Suite (2008) [9-13]
9 Prelude for Luigi
10 Mysterious Kitty regards the
ancient universe as time marches to its own beat
11 Tea for Tugger 12 Fluffy Boy
13 Fandango for Fifi
14 Australian Dawn (2016)
15 Bush Dance (2016)
16 Rag for Razz for violin and piano (2007)
17 Northbridge Blues (1995)
18 Boulevard Waltz (1988)
19 Prelude for Violin and Piano (2017)
Fictional Realities - CD
By Apollo Trio
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Seven Piano Trios by renowned Australian composers such as Dulcie Holland, Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Roger Smalley and Mike Nock, performed by the Apollo Trio: Thomas Tsai, Daniel Herscovitch and Maria Lindsay, and Elizabeth Neville.
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[1-3] Piano Trio (Dulcie Holland)
- Allegro non troppo
- Fast
- Allegro maestro
4 Night Song (Peter Sculthorpe)
[5-7 Piano Trio (Ross Edwards)
- Allegretto
- poco adagio e mesto, quasi recitativo
- Allegro Assai
[8] From Irkanda III (Peter Sculthorpe)
[9-10] Piano Trio (Roger Smalley)
- Part 1 1: Prelude II: Scherzo
- Part 2 III: Passacaglia IV: Variations
[11] Cradle Song (Dulcie Holland)
[12] Fictional Realities (Mike Nock)
Fire in My Heart - CD
By Miriam Hyde
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Individual songs in print music or two albums - Rhyme After Rain 2nd Ed and In the Rose Garden together with critical notes and CD are available online.
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Mediaeval Latin Lyrics [tr.] Helen Waddell [1-3]
1 Take Thou This Rose
2 At Beauty's Altar
3 Fire in My Heart
4 The River and the Hill Henry Kendall
5 Dream Land Christina Rossetti
6 Lullaby Christina Rossetti
7 Nightfall by the River W. Allder Morrison
8 Laughter Hilda Hammond-Spencer
9 A Song of Autumn Adam Lindsay Gordon
10 The Illawarra Flame Patricia Francis
11 Anzac Threnody Dorothea Dowling
12 Dawn Service Mary Bertram
13 In the Rose Garden Marjorie Kenna
14 The First Boronia Miriam Hyde
15 The Apple Tree Patricia Hackett
16 The Lotus Pool Chinese Lyrics [tr.] Helen Waddell
17 Leaves in the Wind Miriam Hyde
18 My Sorrow Stirs Hilda Hammond-Spencer
19 The Wind in the Sedges Hilda Hammond-Spencer
20 Rhyme After Rain John Galsworthy
21 Late June Valerie Barton
22 Twilight Beach Dorothea Dowling
23 Prayer for Rain Miriam Hyde
24 Before the Spring Miriam Hyde
25 Winter Willow Music Miriam Hyde
26 Thoughts at Dusk Miriam Hyde
Flood, The
By Hannan, Balodis
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Michael Hannan (music and soundscapes) and Janis Balodis (lyrics) with Isabella A Cappella and The Flood Band. The Flood is a large-scale community promenade music theatre piece composed by Michael Hannan and developed by Northern Rivers Performing Arts during 2003 in Lismore NSW. From its collective memory of floods, the creative development team assembled a plan for soundscape of the Lismore floods: natural sounds such as incessant rain, the roar of rushing water, the sound of certain birds associated with impending rain, the calls of frogs and sirens, to name but a few.
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A recent review in The Music Trust http://musictrust.com.au/the-flood-music-by-michael-hannan-lyrics-by-janis-balodis/
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1. Flood Warning (soundscape) - Michael Hannan
2. Drowning Piano Blues - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
3. Flood Drumming - Michael Hannan
4. Promenade 1: Drowned Piano Blues- Michael Hannan
5. Promenade 2: Water Remembers - Michael Hannan
6. Promenade3: Poor Boy He - Michael Hannan
7. Flood Rain (soundscape) - Michael Hannan
8. No Bullet in the Head - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
9. Frog Chorus (soundscape) - Michael Hannan
10. Sandbag Ballet - Michael Hannan
11. Bring It On - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
12. Furniture Lifting Music - Michael Hannan
13. Flood Salsa - Michael Hannan
14. Flood Rising Music - Michael Hannan
15. Lost the Lot - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
16. Poor Boy He - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
17. Water Remembers - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
18. Echo in the Blood - Janis Balodis/Michael Hannan
19. Dawn Chorus (soundscape) - Michael Hannan
Flute Odyssey - CD
By Various Composers
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Flute and piano works performed by Emma Knott and David Miller. Works by all Australian composers include: Amanda Handel, May Howlett, Betty Beath, John Spence, Houston Dunleavy, Steve Clark, Ann Carr-Boyd and John Terry. Print music for all works are available online.
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1 Moonlight Mirage
Moonlight Mirage (Amanda Handel) [2-3]
2 Blinding Moon
3 Dream Tune
Wings of the Wind (May Howlett) [4-6]
4 Thermals
5 Mistral
6 Ah! Sirocco
7 Night Moods (Betty Beath)
8 Hymn to the 89th Constellation (John Spence)
9 Sideling Hill (Houston Dunleavy)
10 Phryg Magnet (Steve Clark)
Suite for Flute and Piano (Ann Carr-Boyd) [11-14]
11 Prelude
12 Badinerie
13 American Dream
14 Toccata
15 Flootin' About (John Terry)
Flying West - CD
By Ann Carr-boyd
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Music by Ann Carr-Boyd performed by Diana Weston (harpsichord) and the ensemble Thoroughbass. An eclectic collection of works in this double CD - folksongs and instrumental - for voice, violin/viola, cello, guitar, recorder, percussion, harpsichord and organ. Mostly written around the '70s and '80s for The Consort of Sydney, and enthusiastically revived and recorded here by Diana Weston and her ensemble.
Inspired by the Australian outback and by the words to Flying West, written by Diana Weston, this short collection [tracks 10-17] for recorder, cello and harpsichord describes the day in the life of doctors working from the base of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Broken Hill, and has been dedicated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Disc One
Folksongs 76 [1-7]
1 Argizagi Ederra
2 O Dieu D'Amour
3 Yees Merrmingas ma Pandicksay
4 Otan mou ipen ehe
5 Ma ti to theli mana sou
6 Kharchin
7 Life in a Prairie Shack
8 Nadir - 9 ITT
Flying West [10-17]
10 Flying West
11 Bumpy Ride
12 Interlude 1
13 Wings from the Sky
14 Interlude 2
15 Red Earth
16 The Clinic
17 The Return
18 Couperin
19 Lullaby for Nuck
20 Wisp of Cloud
Disc Two
21 The Boomerang Chocolate Cake
Folk Songs 78 [22-25]
22 Guten Abend, Gute Nacht
23 Im Schönstein Wiesengrunde
24 Itia Itia
25 Mandinada
Trois Leçons [26-28]
26 and only man is vile
27 the human race
28 man is so proud
29 Textures and Variations
30 Catch 75
Three Songs of Love [31-33]
31 being to timelessness as it's to time
32 stand with your lover
33 spring! May - ev'rywhere's here
Suite for Véronique [34-38]
34 Prelude
35 A Little Rag
36 Folk Song "Esa Noche" (Ritornello)
37 Slow Step
38 Esa Noche (Ritornello)
Forest Magic - CD
By Jeanell Carrigan
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Jeanell Carrigan (piano)“Faintly shrouded by a gentle mist
The trees within the wood resemble dreams.” (Franz Holford)
In the early 1900s in Australia almost every home contained a piano. A sturdy upright with a metal frame taking pride of place in the parlour and providing hours of entertainment in the form of sing-alongs and musical evenings. Consequently, many songs and a great deal of piano music was composed which could be performed in the home environment, but also many works designed for the concert platform.
On this themed recording there are examples of piano music written by composers who were all born in the nineteenth or very early twentieth century, who lived throughout that century writing music describing their impressions of the world around them. There are works about forests, leafy lanes, mists, and joyful rain. There is a cacophony of bird sounds and just as trees can resemble dreams this music creates dreams and visions.
Cover photograph by Catherine McCorkill
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[1] Forest Magic (no date) – Frank Hutchens
[2] The Leafy Lanes of Kent (1950) – Mirrie Hill
[3] Dawn (no date) – Linda Phillips
[4] Woodland Sketch (1966) – Miriam Hyde
[5] Joyous Rain (1942) – Alfred Hill
[6] Murmuring Trees (1936) – Josephine Bell
[7] The Old Gum Tree (1963) – Lindley Evans
[8] The Elm Tree (1935) – Iris de Cairos-Rego
[9] Two Little Birds (1944) – Frank Hutchens
[10] Willow Wind (1973) – Mirrie Hill
[11] Butterflies (1958) – Linda Phillips
[12] Rabbit Hill (1928) – Roy Agnew
[13] Doves (1932) – Alfred Hill
[14] ‘Midst Heather and Wattle (1949) – Esther Kahn
[15] Pastoral (1936) – Peggy Glanville-Hicks
[16] Flight (no date) – Linda Phillips
[17] Bell Birds (1963) – Lindley Evans
[18] Noon (1958) – Linda Phillips
[19] Blackbird’s Song – Miriam Hyde
[20] Fragrance (1936) – Lindley Evans
[21] Wattle Bird in the Garden – Hooper Brewster-Jones
[22] The Distant Magpie – Hooper Brewster-Jones
[23] The Peaceful Dove (1923-1926) – Hooper Brewster-Jones
[24] Hushed is my Garden (no date) – Linda Phillips
[25] Drifting Mists – Roy Agnew
[26] Return at Sunset (no date) – Linda Phillips
[27] At the Setting of the Sun (1911) – Mirrie Hill
[28] Evening (1954) – Frank Hutchens
Lindley Evans
Frank Hutchens
Esther Kahn
Hooper Brewster-Jones
Linda Phillips
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Mirrie Hill
Josephine Bell
Iris de Carios-Rego
Roy Agnew
Miriam Hyde
From a Bridge of Dreams - CD
By Various Composers
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22 flute and piano pieces performed by Emma Knott (flute) and David Miller (piano). Included are works by Australian composers as Ian Cooper, Frank Millward, Betty Beath, Michael Dixon, Nigel Butterley, Wendy Suiter, Brennan Keats, Ann Carr-Boyd, Horace Keats.
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1 Serenade (Ian Cooper)
2 Callin the Turtles In (Frank Millward)
3 Nawang Wulan (Betty Beath)
4 From a Bridge of Dreams (Betty Beath)
5 Music for Gillan (Betty Beath)
6 Locan (Michael H Dixon)
7 Locana's Concert (Michael H Dixon)
8 Inner Life (Michael H Dixon)
9 Evanston Song (Nigel Butterley)
10 The Wind Stirs Gently (Nigel Butterley)
11 Sunflowers (Wendy Suiter)
12 Silver-Eyed Gull (Brennan Keats)
13 Ann and Del in Oz (Ann Carr-Boyd)
14 Ann and Del (Ann Carr-Boyd)
(The following composed by Horace Keats arr Brennan Keats):-
15 Over the Quiet Waters
16 Mermaids
17 By the Lily-Pond
18 I Will Build My House in the Water
19 Plucking the Rushes
20 Goldfish
21 Sea Breeze
22 The Valley Lay Smiling Before Me
Full Moon - CD
By Diana Weston, Michael Tsalka
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Classical and contemporary music for square piano and harpsichord.
Michael Tsalka: Piano forte primo, harpsichord I
Diana Weston: Piano forte secondo, harpsichord II
In the making of this album, our purpose was to bring to light a long-forgotten and yet highly significant instrument that was the ‘square’ piano - specifically the English square piano. We wanted to demonstrate a little of its nature, to outline its relevance in social history, to let you hear its voice. To do this, we are fortunate to have available a relevant instrument – a Robertson c. 1835 partially restored square piano crafted in Liverpool. In the recording, music from its era (late eighteenth to early nineteenth century), is interspersed with newly created pieces that are sympathetic to its variable sounds and registers, that is, its limitations and virtues. Diana Weston
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Critique Blog by Pamela Hickman
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Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 1782)
Sonata in A major for piano forte four hands, Op.XVIII,
[1] Allegretto
[2] Tempo di Minuetto
Johann Baptist Vanhall (1739-1813)
Sonata II in A major from Two Sonatas for four Hands for the Harpsichord or the Forte Piano, Op. 3
[3] Adagio alla Francese, Variazioni alla Italiana, Variations I – 6
[4] Rondo alla Tedesca/Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770- 1827)
Song, ‘Ich denke dein’, with six Variations, WoO 74 piano duet, sung by Angelica Minero Escobar
[5] Andante cantabile, Variations 1 – 6
Ann Carr-Boyd (commissioned work) Michael Tsalka (square piano), Diana Weston (harpsichord)
[6] Moonrise over Lake Argyle for Forte piano and Harpsichord
Diana Blom (commissioned work)
[7] Night Music
Ann Carr-Boyd (arranged) Michael Tsalka (harpsichord), Diana Weston (square piano)
[8] Stairway to the Moon
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