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Australian Songs
Richard Peter Maddox
Something for lovers of fine vocal music and Australian music alike!
This recording is a comprehensive collection of the vocal music of Richard Peter Maddox. It bears the impramatur of the composer (playing the fantastic new Australian-designed Stuart & Sons piano), and he is joined by his talented brother Graham Maddox on oboe and Sydney-based vocalist, Samantha Smith. This hauntingly beautiful disc features premiere recordings of Maddox's Four Songs for Soprano, the Four Archaic Songs, Letters from Armidale (text by Mary Buck), The Stranger in my Skin (text by Bruce Dawe) and his suite of five well-known Australian folksongs. Press quotes:
“a fine example of modern songwriting.”
— Kim Lockwood, Audio preview:
Waltzing Matilda download Track Listing:
Four Songs for Soprano
- The Pear Tree [Dame Mary Gilmore] - Bargain Basement [Frederick T. Macartney] - Sleight-of-hand [Bruce Dawe] - Sonnet XVIII [Shakespeare] Four Archaic Songs - In Praise of Art [Buonarotti] - To Saint Mary Magdalen [Constable] - A Prayer to the Holy Trinity [Richard Stanyhurst] - Blow, blow thou winter winde [Shakespeare] Five Australian Songs - Botany Bay - Moreton Bay - Click Go the Shears - The Streets of Forbes - Waltzing Matilda Letters from Armidale [Mary Buck] - Lovely Day - Figs - Letters - News Flashes - Rain The Stranger in my Skin [Bruce Dawe] - Stranger - Looking Down from Bridges - The Swimming-Pool - Bedroom Conversations - A Peasant Idyll Catalogue Number: MD3227
Price: AU$26.00
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Richard Peter Maddox was born in Apia, Western Samoa, and grew up in Sydney, N.S.W. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of New South Wales in 1962. Following a number of years working as a company accountant and controller, he decided to leave the world of commerce, pursuing his musical studies at the Universities of London, Sydney, UCLA and New England.
Based in NSW, vocalist Samantha Smith has been a soloist under many conductors at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium, including the late Professor Michael Dudman, John ODonnell, Christopher Allan, Philip Mathias, Robert Constable and Nigel Butterley. In 1996 Samantha performed the leading role of Nero in Monteverdi’s ‘The Coronation of Poppea’, directed by Yaron Lifschitz with musical direction by Robert Constable.
Graham Maddox was also born in Apia, Western Samoa, and grew up in Sydney. Besides pursuing a distinguished academic career (currently he is a Professor of Politics in the University of New England), he studied oboe on an orchestral scholarship with Ian Wilson at the Sydney Conservatorium, and with Neil Black, John Anderson and Evelyn Rothwell in London. He has performed widely, and has given many first performances of works by his brother, Richard Peter Maddox.
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