Listen & tracks
1 of 12 tracks have a preview · 12 works · 132:23
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1 Clear Flame Within Brenton Broadstock 9:17
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2 Aureole 3 Brenton Broadstock 11:20
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3 In the Silence of Night Brenton Broadstock 9:34
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4 Bright Tracks Brenton Broadstock 15:00
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5 At the going down of the sun Brenton Broadstock 6:59
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6 Aureole 4 Brenton Broadstock 11:04
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201 All That is Solid Melts into Air Brenton Broadstock 13:38
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202 Dying of the Light Brenton Broadstock 12:47
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203 Fourteenth Station of the Cross Brenton Broadstock 5:11
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204 Beast From Air Brenton Broadstock 11:59
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205 I touched your glistening tears ... Brenton Broadstock 8:27
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206 String Quartet #2 Brenton Broadstock 17:07
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.
In the artist’s words
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.
Artists
Brenton Broadstock
composer
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.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Barrie Webb · trombone · disc 2 track 4
- Genevieve Lacey · recorder · disc 1 track 2
- Ian Holtham · piano · disc 2 tracks 2 and 5
- Julian Warburton · percussion · disc 2 track 4
- Merlyn Quaife · soprano · disc 1 track 4
- The Choir of Ormond College · choir · disc 2 track 3
- Petra String Quartet · ensemble · disc 2 track 6
- Ann Murphy · harpsichord · disc 1 track 2
- Clara Schütz · cello · disc 1 track 1
- Linda Kouvaras · piano · disc 1 track 3
- Anthony Pope · trumpet · disc 1 track 5
- Dominic Perissinotto · organ · disc 1 track 5
- Josephine Tan · piano · disc 1 track 6
- Barry Cockcroft · soprano saxophone · disc 2 track 5
- Megan Kenny · alto flute · disc 2 track 1
- Grania Burke · bass clarinet · disc 2 track 1
- Bruce Petherick · piano · disc 2 track 1
- Julie Haskell · piano · disc 1 track 1
- Stephanie Lindner · violin · disc 1 track 4
- Annelies Billeter · viola · disc 1 track 4
- Rachel Page · cello · disc 1 track 4
- Douglas Lawrence · director · disc 2 track 3
Technical credits
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Contributor
Kate Mansell
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Editing Engineer
Vaughan McAlley
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Melba Hall (disc 1 tracks 6 and 2-6)
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Thanks to
Creative Australia
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 132 minutes 23 seconds
- Release date
- 1998
- Categories
- Australian, Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 1998 Brenton Broadstock
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1998 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3204
- EAN
- 9314574320428
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