Bright Tracks
Winner of the 1998 ABC Classic FM Listeners’ Choice Award, this double CD gathers chamber music by Brenton Broadstock, one of Australia’s most established and respected composers.
The Choir of Ormond College choir
Grania Burke bass clarinet
Barry Cockcroft soprano saxophone
Julie Haskell piano
Ian Holtham piano
Megan Kenny alto flute
Linda Kouvaras piano
Genevieve Lacey recorder
Ann Murphy harpsichord
Dominic Perissinotto organ
Bruce Petherick piano
Anthony Pope trumpet
Merlyn Quaife soprano
Clara Schütz cello
Josephine Tan piano
Julian Warburton percussion
Barrie Webb trombone
Stephanie Lindner violin
Annelies Billeter viola
Rachel Page cello
Douglas Lawrence director
Winner of the 1998 ABC Listener’s Choice Award!
This double CD brings together chamber music by Brenton Broadstock, one of Australia’s most well-established and respected composers.
From earlier works such as Beast from Air, Aureole 3, String Quartet and Aureole 4 to the more recent Dying of the Light, I touched your glistening tears..., Clear Flame Within and Bright Tracks, Broadstock keeps a direct, uncluttered and lyrical style in which his social conscience remains vital.
Includes award-winning pieces:
Bright Tracks, featuring soprano Merlyn Quaife, won the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize in 1994.
Beast From Air was performed at the ISCM World Music Days in Hong Kong in 1988.
Dying of the Light won the 1997 Jean Bogan Prize for solo piano.
I touched your glistening tears ... won the Michelle Morrow Memorial Composition Award sponsored by the Anti-Cancer Council.
Aureole 3 also appears on Genevieve Lacey’s Phoenix Songs; In the Silence of Night is also on the Team of Pianists’ Hamilton.
As a human being, I believe that I have a moral obligation to do what I can to improve the society I live in. The corollary of this, as a human being who is predominantly involved in the artistic expression of music composition, is that I am morally obliged to improve society through my art.
Reviews
Brenton Broadstock is a quiet achiever as this extensive and superbly presented anthology makes clear. His music is at its best when his social conscience reacts to people; his multiply handicapped son, say, or a person living with AIDS. In these cases a tenderness both harmonic and melodic comes to the fore and the listener is left beguiled and touched. A wide variety of local artists give consistently fine performances.
Deeply serious and intensely personal, Broadstock’s music can connect so directly that poignancy approaches pain.
they give a good perspective on Broadstock’s development, especially the more expressive, lyrical elements of it, and reward careful listening.
Artist
Brenton Broadstock
Brenton Broadstock is one of Australia’s most established, respected and successful mid-generation composers. Over several decades he has built a substantial, varied catalogue distinguished by expressive range, structural assurance and strong engagement with performers and audiences, nationally and internationally.
Audio preview
Tracks
- Clear Flame Within Brenton Broadstock 9:17
- Aureole 3 Brenton Broadstock 11:20
- In the Silence of Night Brenton Broadstock 9:34
- Bright Tracks Brenton Broadstock 15:00
- At the going down of the sun Brenton Broadstock 6:59
- Aureole 4 Brenton Broadstock 11:04
Disc 2
- All That is Solid Melts into Air Brenton Broadstock 13:38
- Dying of the Light Brenton Broadstock 12:47
- Fourteenth Station of the Cross Brenton Broadstock 5:11
- Beast From Air Brenton Broadstock 11:59
- I touched your glistening tears ... Brenton Broadstock 8:27
- String Quartet #2 Brenton Broadstock 17:07
Performers
- Barrie Webb · disc 2 track 4
- Genevieve Lacey · disc 1 track 2
- Ian Holtham · disc 2 tracks 2 and 5
- Julian Warburton · disc 2 track 4
- Merlyn Quaife · disc 1 track 4
- The Choir of Ormond College · disc 2 track 3
- Petra String Quartet · disc 2 track 6
- Ann Murphy · disc 1 track 2
- Clara Schütz · disc 1 track 1
- Linda Kouvaras · disc 1 track 3
- Anthony Pope · disc 1 track 5
- Dominic Perissinotto · disc 1 track 5
- Josephine Tan · disc 1 track 6
- Barry Cockcroft · disc 2 track 5
- Megan Kenny · alto flute · disc 2 track 1
- Grania Burke · bass clarinet · disc 2 track 1
- Bruce Petherick · disc 2 track 1
- Julie Haskell · disc 1 track 1
- Stephanie Lindner · disc 1 track 4
- Annelies Billeter · disc 1 track 4
- Rachel Page · disc 1 track 4
- Douglas Lawrence · director · disc 2 track 3
Where to listen
Bright Tracks is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Bright Tracks is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3204
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 132 minutes 23 seconds
- Contributor
- Kate Mansell
- Recording Engineer
- Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley - Editing Engineer
- Vaughan McAlley
- Mastering Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Melba Hall (disc 1 tracks 6 and 2-6)
- Thanks to
- Creative Australia
- Release date
- 1998
- Musical work
copyright - © 1998 Brenton Broadstock
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1998 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Classical
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, Modernist Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574320428
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