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2021-06-04 00:00:00
Ross Edwards: Violin and Percussion Concertos & Symphony No.1 - Dene Olding, David Porcelijn et al
Ross Edwards:01. - 03. Violin Concerto 'Maninyas'* [25'32]04. Symphony No.1 'Da Pacem Domine' [29'12]05. Nocturne for Solo Percussion and Orchestra 'Yarrageh' [13'43]Dene Olding-violin *, Ian Cleworth- percussion ^, Sydney Symphony Orchestra conduted by David Porceljn and Stuart Challender* ABC Classics 4386102 [recorded May 1990* and September/ October 1992; first released on CD 1993, this digital release 2004] [digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venues: Sydney Town Hall* and Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, SydneyRecording engineer: Alan Maclean; Producer: Christopher Lawrence This release features three of Australian composer Ross Edwards' signature works - all more characteristic of his familiar "middle of the road" style; unlike the genial Guitar Concerto and spiky Saxophone Concerto heard in earlier posts in this series. Born in Sydney in 1943, I tend to think of him as Australia's third living composer after Carl Vine and Brett Dean, although I also think of […]
2021-04-08 23:00:00
Carl Vine: Seven Symphonies and Two Piano Concertos - Edo de Waart, Piers Lane, Arvo Volmer & Michael Kieran Harvey
Carl Vine:1.01. Symphony No.1 'Micro Symphony' (1986) ~ [10'44]1.02. Symphony No.2 (1988) ~ [19'07]1.03. Symphony No.3 (1990) ~ [25'54]1.04. Celebrare Celeberrime (1993) [5'07]2.01 Symphony No.4.2 (1993, rev.1998) + [19'15]2.02 - 2.03. Symphony No.5 'Percussion' (1995) ^ [24'56]2.04 - 2.08. Symphony No.6 'Choral' (1996) *+ [28'49]Synergy Percussion Ensemble ^, Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir *, Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Challender ~ and Edo de Waart ABC Classics 4767179 [recorded 1990 - 1998; this CD collection and digital download release 2005][digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venues: Sydney Town Hall and Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House +Recording engineers: Yossi Gabbay, Allan Maclean~ & Jim Atkins^Producers: Tim Handley & Christopher Lawrence ~The above recordings of Symphony No.4.2 and the Choral Symphony have also been released separately as ABC Classics 4566982, coupled with Piano Concerto No.1. I haven't repeated the symphonies here but if you want to […]
2021-02-05 00:30:00
Peter Sculthorpe: Songs of Sea and Sky - Wlliam Barton & Michael Christie
[…] 10 years later the orchestra reverted to the Queensland Symphony name and still contained many members drawn from both orchestras. The American conductor, Michael Christie, was the orchestra's first chief conductor - from 2002 to 2007. All of the works played in this collection are earlier compositions which Sculthorpe revised to include prominent parts for the didjeridu, especially for William Barton. In their earlier forms, Earth Cry, Mangrove and Kakadu appeared on the Stuart Challender Earth Cry album. As far as I know there is no other recording of Songs of Sea and Sky and From Ubirr is the name of String Quartet No.12 (Sculthorpe's first with obbligato didjeridu) which is still to be posted here. [Although The Fifth Continent, written in 1963, was actually his first work with didjeridu, the number of capable players at the time was extremely limited and a pre-recording had to be used. That, […]
2021-01-15 00:30:00
Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry - Stuart Challender
Peter Sculthorpe:01. Earth Cry [10'20]02. Irkanda IV* [11'14]03. Small Town from 'The Fifth Continent'^ [6'12]04. Kakadu [14'50]05. Mangrove 13'13]Donald Hazelwood- violin*; Guy Henderson- oboe^; Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Challender ABC Classics 426 481-2 [recorded February & July 1989; CD issued 1990] [digital download; flacs, cover and back scans - no booklet] Recording venue: Sydney Town HallRecording engineer: Allan MacLean; Producers: David Harvey and Christopher Lawrence^ The third in this series of works by leading Australian composers, the conductor Stuart Challender was a long-term "house" conductor for Australian music with the Australian federal broadcaster ABC and a regular conductor of the Sydney Symphony. As with Sculthorpe, Challender was born in Tasmania and he was chief conductor of the orchestra from 1987 until his early death in 1991. Here we have excellent performances and sound recording throughout. The first work, Earth Cry, the title name of the whole album, is a […]
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