Fluid Lines
After nearly a decade of hanging out, talking shop and drinking coffee, virtuoso guitarists Daniel McKay and Antony Field formed Duo 19. Their debut presents an eclectic programme of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works, including music by Australians Nigel Westlake and Phillip Houghton.
Nigel Westlake composer
Atanas Ourkouzounov composer
Terry Riley composer
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composer
Frederic Hand composer
Already much loved within Australia's guitar scene, the duo combine on-stage energy with a spontaneous rapport that is exciting and unpredictable. Long-term members of Guitar Trek, the Melbourne Guitar Quartet and the ARIA award-winning Saffire, Daniel and Antony both studied with Timothy Kain. After years of collaboration across romantic and contemporary repertoire, they favour new and rarely heard works, with a core of modern Australian music.
Individually they appear on more than a dozen recordings and have toured widely in Australia and abroad, including the Darwin and Adelaide International Guitar Festivals, the Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra international music festivals, guitar societies at home and overseas, and Musica Viva.
This Move debut gathers Bulgarian, Australian and American composers, among them Atanas Ourkouzounov, Nigel Westlake and Terry Riley. Both players teach at the University of Melbourne.
After nearly a decade of hanging out, talking shop and drinking coffee it seemed logical for us to form a musical partnership. Sharing the same tutor in Tim Kain and having similar ideas regarding repertoire, technique and tone production we knew we had a natural rapport and affinity for each other’s playing that would translate well to the concert platform.
A few years of occasional collaboration later we settled on this dynamically eclectic programme which spans European, American and Australian repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. We have carefully tailored this programme to demonstrate the beauty of two guitars playing together (sure there is an oft repeated quote attributed to Chopin that could be appropriate here, but anyway…!). Above all, we approach our music with vigour. That’s what we hope to share with you.
Artist
Duo 19
Two of Australia’s most compelling virtuoso guitarists – Daniel McKay and Antony Field – join forces in Duo 19. Already much loved within Australia’s guitar scene the duo are a riveting combo of on-stage energy.
Audio previews
Tracks
- Prelude in E major 2:21
- Fugue in E major 1:40
- Brolga Phillip Houghton 8:14
- Zamorra Terry Riley 11:09
- Horo Atanas Ourkouzounov 3:19
- Prelude in G minor 2:40
- Fugue in G minor 3:56
- Songs from the Forest Nigel Westlake 8:02
- Prayer Frederic Hand 4:47
- Hinchinbrook Riffs Nigel Westlake 8:39
Les Guitares Bien Temperes Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Les Guitares Bien Temperes Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Performers
- Duo 19
- Antony Field · guitar
- Daniel McKay · guitar
Composers
Phillip Houghton
Phillip Houghton’s guitar music has been performed and recorded by leading musicians, including John Williams and Timothy Kain. A self-taught composer, he drew on classical, jazz, rock, ambient and world music.
Terry Riley
Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley was among the most revolutionary composers of the postwar era; famed for his introduction of repetition into Western music motifs, he also masterminded early experiments in tape loops and delay systems which left an indelible mark on the experimental music produced in his wake.
Nigel Westlake
Westlake has played in fusion bands and soundtrack sessions, with Australia’s leading instrumental groups, and as a soloist with orchestras and classical ensembles in Australia and in major cities worldwide, from London and Paris to Tokyo, Beijing and New York.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed almost one hundred works for the guitar and a wide range of chamber and concert music. His writing is often graceful and classically shaped, with a clear singing line and a taste for literary and Italian colour.
Atanas Ourkouzounov
Atanas Ourkouzounov is a Bulgarian composer whose guitar writing draws on folk rhythm, dance energy and a contemporary classical language. His work is heard on Australian recordings of recent chamber and duo repertoire.
Where to listen
Fluid Lines is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Fluid Lines 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 3355
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 54 minutes 47 seconds
- Recording Engineer
- Blake Stickland
- Mastering Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Move Records Studio
- Release date
- Apr 2012
- Musical work
copyright - © 2012 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 2012 Move Records
- Category
- Classical
- Genre
- Contemporary Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574335521
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