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1 of 46 tracks have a preview · 23 works · 59:00
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1 The Pear Tree Richard Peter Maddox 4:48
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2 Bargain Basement Richard Peter Maddox 3:31
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3 Sleight-of-hand Richard Peter Maddox 2:28
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4 Sonnet XVIII Richard Peter Maddox 2:47
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5 In Praise of Art Richard Peter Maddox 2:13
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6 To Saint Mary Magdalen Richard Peter Maddox 2:43
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7 A Prayer to the Holy Trinity Richard Peter Maddox 1:52
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8 Blow, blow thou winter winde Richard Peter Maddox 1:54
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9 Botany Bay Richard Peter Maddox 2:54
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10 Moreton Bay Richard Peter Maddox 3:10
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11 Click Go the Shears Richard Peter Maddox 2:33
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12 The Streets of Forbes Richard Peter Maddox 2:46
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13 Waltzing Matilda Richard Peter Maddox 3:36
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14 Lovely Day Richard Peter Maddox :57
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15 Figs Richard Peter Maddox :53
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16 Letters Richard Peter Maddox 1:53
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17 News Flashes Richard Peter Maddox :46
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18 Rain Richard Peter Maddox 1:11
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19 Stranger Richard Peter Maddox 4:13
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20 Looking Down from Bridges Richard Peter Maddox 4:50
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21 The Swimming-Pool Richard Peter Maddox 1:51
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22 Bedroom Conversations Richard Peter Maddox 2:25
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23 A Peasant Idyll Richard Peter Maddox 2:46
Something for lovers of fine vocal music and Australian music alike.
This disc gathers premiere recordings of Maddox’s Four Songs for Soprano, the Four Archaic Songs, Letters from Armidale (texts by Mary Buck), The Stranger in My Skin (texts by Bruce Dawe), and a suite of five well-known Australian folksongs.
Reviews
a fine example of modern songwriting.
Artists
Graham Maddox
oboe
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.
Samantha Smith
soprano
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.
Richard Peter Maddox
stuart & sons piano
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.
William Shakespeare
composer
William Shakespeare's sonnets and the songs embedded in his plays remain living lyric for composers. On these recordings his words surface in art song, lieder and choral settings that still carry love, wit, jealousy and foolery.
Mary Buck
composer
Michelangelo Buonarotti
composer
Henry Constable
composer
Henry Constable wrote Elizabethan love sonnets and spiritual lyrics whose fervour and richness of colour have drawn composers to set them. Diana remains one of the earliest English sonnet sequences.
Bruce Dawe
composer
Dame Mary Gilmore
composer
Dame Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) was an Australian poet, journalist and campaigner. Her verse, rich in images of country life and national feeling, has been set as art song and folk repertoire.
Frederick T. Macartney
composer
Richard Stanyhurst
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Richard Peter Maddox · stuart & sons piano
- Samantha Smith · soprano
- Graham Maddox · oboe · tracks 19–23
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Nathan Scott
Nigel Kentish
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Mastering Engineer
Barry Henninger
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Venue
Newcastle Conservatorium Auditorium
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Credit
James White
Stuart and Sons
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 59 minutes 0 seconds
- Release date
- 2000
- Categories
- Australian, Classical, Vocal
- Musical work copyright
- © Richard Peter Maddox
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2000 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3227
- EAN
- 9314574322729
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