Listen & tracks
3 works · 61:29
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Chamber Concerto for Piano and StringsDavid Joseph 2 movements20:53
- 1 Toccata 9:09
- 2 Poem of Love/Meditation 11:44
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3 Scheherazade David Joseph 20:55
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4 Dialogues David Joseph 19:41
These are not merely archival finds. The performances bring forward works unheard on disc and show Joseph’s gift for colour and narrative in writing for string forces.
In 1990 Spiros Rantos, then Musical Director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, invited Joseph to write for the ensemble and proposed Michael Kieran Harvey as soloist for a Chamber Concerto. That partnership later yielded a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1996) for the MSO and the solo piano Rhapsody (1998) for the Albert H Maggs Award.
The Chamber Concerto (1991–92), in three movements, opens the programme with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra under Rantos and Harvey at the piano. Scheherazade (1999) was written for the Zagreb Soloists for the Zagreb International Music Biennale. Dialogues (1992), for solo violin and strings, was composed at Urs Walker’s invitation for the Ripieno Kammerorchester of Winterthur, Switzerland.
Artists
David Joseph
composer
David Joseph (b. 1954) is a Melbourne-born Australian composer whose orchestral and chamber music is marked by vivid colour, lyric invention and a keen ear for texture. His catalogue ranges from concertos and string studies to ballet scenes and intimate chamber scores.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Melbourne Chamber Orchestra · ensemble · tracks 1 and 2
- Michael Kieran Harvey · piano · tracks 1 and 2
- Spiros Rantos · conductor · tracks 1 and 2
- Zagreb Soloists · ensemble · track 3
- Ripieno Kammerorchester · ensemble · track 4
- Urs Walker · violin · track 4
- Howard Griffiths · conductor · track 4
Technical credits
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Editing Engineer
Jamie Durrant
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Mastering Engineer
Bob Scott
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 61 minutes 29 seconds
- Release date
- 1 Apr 2023
- Categories
- Australian, Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 2022 David Joseph
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2022 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3460
- EAN
- 9314574346022
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