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score available from Wise Music program note Evening Flight is not directly programmatic, but does allude in general to certain events: the quiet wait in the transit lounge (wondering if your life is in order), the apprehension at take off, golden–lit images of symmetrical cities and freeways seen from high above, and the final gratification … Read more
Spotify CD available 800 Million Heartbeats Justine Cormack, Sarah Watkins ABC Classics score available from Wise Music program note i: Meteor ii: Snow iii: Parachute iv: Apple v: Anchor vi: Stockmarket vii: Night These seven miniatures are concerned with the theory of gravity and the resultant phenomenon of falling. This is reflected in the music … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note Going Home was originally sketched in 1994 and further developed in 1998 for Claire Little and Ken Murray, who gave the premiere performance at the Wintyre Recital Gallery in Warrandyte on 11 September, 1998. The premiere recording was made by David Griffiths and Ken Murray in 2022 (A Trillion Miles of Darkness, … Read more
score available from Wise Music program noteThe title, Known, forgotten, half-recalled, is taken from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding (Four Quartets). This duo for violin and piano contemplates Eliot’s notion of memory in all its nostalgia, confusion, elation and acceptance. It was written in 1995 in memory of Michael Perl, who was a particularly wonderful uncle … Read more
YouTube Spotify score available from Wise Music program note Life in a Day was originally commissioned by Riley Lee for the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival (Sydney), with assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. The original version (for shakuhachi and harp) exploits the natural tuning of the shakuhachi but also … Read more
CD available The Metallic Violins James Cuddeford and Natsuko Yoshimoto, violins Tall Poppies score available from Wise Music program note Danny Boy Variations, is not strictly in ‘theme and variations’ form as such. It is essentially a free rumination on sections of the theme, which ultimately leads to a canonic presentation of the theme in … Read more
CD available Greenbaum Hindson Peterson Rodney Lovenfosse (viola), Glenn Riddle (piano) GHP9501 score available from Wise Music program note The title of this work is taken from a poem by Ross Baglin, with whom the composer often collaborates. The premiere performance was given by Vince Parsonage and Josephine Tan at Doncaster Gallery on 29 May … Read more
CD available Beat Me Barry Cockcroft (soprano saxophone), Ross Calia (piano) Reed Music score available from Reed Music program note To my ear, the soprano saxophone has an ambiguous tone which can smoothly alternate between an elegant classical sound (not dissimilar to the oboe) and something more wild and raw. This contrast is at the … Read more
/ 099 / 112 Spotify CD available Pluckblow Gerard McChrystal (alto saxophone), Craig Ogden (guitar) Meridian Records A Trillion Miles of Darkness David Griffiths (clarinet), Ken Murray (guitar) ABC Classics score available clarinet and flute versions available through Wise Music alto saxophone version available through Reed Music program note Cloud Eight? There is an aspect … Read more
Spotify score available from Wise Music program note There are eight movements that comprise Mondrian Interiors for mixed sextet, and this brief 7th movement for clarinet and piano, Composition with Yellow Lines, is based on a picture by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Created in 1933, it depicts lines that enigmatically meet only outside the canvas. … Read more