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YouTube score available from Wise Music program note Sonata for Cor Anglais and Piano is written for Celia Craig. The 13th in a series of sonatas written in the new millennium, it was premiered on 18 October 2019 at Hanson Dyer Hall (Ian Potter Southbank Centre) by Celia Craig and Konstantin Shamray. The subtitle is … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. 4.4 billion years ago – Molten Earth ii. 3.8 billion years ago – Oceans cover the planet iii. 2.2 billion years ago – First Ice Age iv. 105 million years ago – Green Earth v. Our Earth Today vi. 100 million years on – Future Earth … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. distance to Ganymede: 628,300,000 km ii. ice crust: 150 km thick iii. saltwater ocean underground iv. for those in peril on the sea This Sonata for Flute and Piano is written for Emma Sholl. It is the 7th in a series of sonatas undertaken in the … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. the way in ii. the way through iii. the other side This is a journey piece. About travel. Maybe a long way or at night. Taken to an unfamiliar destination. Perhaps alone. And on some journeys we encounter obstacles; or a fork in the road. The way … Read more
Spotify recording available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note i. Energised ii. Mysterious iii. Elated Sonata for Guitar is dedicated to my very good friend Ken Murray. A prodigiously talented guitarist, Ken freely elected … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note This Sonata for Harp is the 20th in a series of sonatas written in the new millennium. It was written for Melina van Leeuwen at the beginning of 2020 following a month in Japan in 2019 where I was in residence at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village. … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. Genbaku Dome ii. The Path (Motoyasu bridge) iii. One Thousand Origami Cranes (Children’s Peace Monument) iv. The Path (Pond of Peace) v. Memorial Cenotaph At the end of World War Two, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, 1945. … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. our home planet ii. the human imperative for exploration iii. the outer reaches of the universe This Sonata for Oboe and Piano is the 6th in a series of Sonatas that started in 2000 with the Sonata for Violin and Piano, written for my wife Marianne … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note This Sonata for Cello and Piano is written for the Australian National Academy of Music as part of the Greenbaum Sonata Project (low string sonatas). It is the 12th in a series of sonatas written in the new millennium. The work is around half an hour in … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note i. Remote Connection ii. Satellite Mapping iii. Journey into Darkness The phrase ‘remote connection’ has an inherent friction to it, conjuring both distance and closeness. Its common usage refers to wireless devices sharing information; but I’m interested in the human allegory. We can experience loneliness in the … Read more