Listen & tracks
17 works · 117:46
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1 The Butterfly House Eve Duncan 7:15
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2 Butterfly Modernism Eve Duncan 10:21
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3 Madonna and Child with Goldfinch Eve Duncan 7:05
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4 Below the Star Stretched Sky Eve Duncan 4:57
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5 The Titans Eve Duncan 5:07
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6 Welcome Eve Duncan 7:03
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7 Seahorses Eve Duncan 4:23
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8 Time and the Tides Eve Duncan 10:16
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201 Wave to the Depths II Eve Duncan 12:25
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202 The Submerging City Eve Duncan 4:31
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203 Europa Eve Duncan 4:36
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204 Dissolving Atoms: Freedom and Love Eve Duncan 3:08
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205 Wisdom, Will, Love Eve Duncan 4:03
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206 The Arc of the Day Eve Duncan 4:15
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207 Why People Love the Rose Eve Duncan 2:53
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DynamisEve Duncan 3 movements12:39
- 208 i. Maestoso con Vaghezza 5:51
- 209 ii. Slancia Vivace 3:11
- 210 iii. Scherzando 3:37
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211 Iceland Eve Duncan 12:49
Architectural plans of beach houses near Melbourne shape distinctive sound qualities across several scores. A cross-media collaboration with photography takes up environmental questions around the dredging of Melbourne’s bays.
Since the premiere of Buddha on Mars by the National Symphony of Thailand in 2005, her engagement with Asian-Pacific music has extended to the Korean kayageum.
Her awards include the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition (Greece), the Recital Music Double Bass Composition Competition (England) and the International Modern Music Award for Composition (Vienna). She has served on the Executive Committee of the Asian Composers League and is a past Chairman of the Melbourne Composers League. She completed a Master of Music Composition at the University of Melbourne and Honours in Composition at La Trobe University, and at the time of release was a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Sydney.
Reviews
The third collection of chamber works of Eve Duncan, this double CD features works mostly written within the last ten years and demonstrating a new style of composition for the composer.
Almost all of the works in the collection have at least one string instrument. Many of the works in the collection are performed by the Silo String Quartet with additional featured solo instruments (piano, trombone, voice).
Extra-musical factors dominate the composition process, with influence drawn from architectural designs, landscapes, photographs, philosophical, political and ecological issues …in the development of this new approach, Duncan’s implementation of process often results in short sparse gestures punctuated by empty space, often without obvious repetition or development. This style contrasts markedly with that of her first two CD collections and, indeed, the couple of earlier pieces on this CD, with their longer connected phrases and quasi-modal constraints. An enduring influence for Duncan has been the music of eastern Asia, and while the influence is less obvious here than in her earlier recorded works, it could be said that the aesthetic of eastern Asian music informs her use of gesture in this newer style. The influence is most obvious in the piece The Titans, written for flute, viola and Korean zither (the gayageum) with its emphatic use of pentatonicism. The sound of the gayageum is intriguing —darker than either the Japanese koto or the Chinese guzheng.
Similarly interesting is the piece Dredge, for percussion quartet, written as a collaboration with photographer Siri Hayes. Performed by Speak Percussion, the two movements contrast each other in their instrumentation, with the pure sounds of bells and gongs against the sounds of fishing sinkers, shells, bottles and steel drums. The piece serves as an environmental comment on the dredging of Port Phillip Bay, but also as an allegory for the uncovering of layers.
Her Four Blackboard Pieces, for piano quintet, performed by Danae Killian with the Silo String Quartet, are musical responses to two blackboard drawings made by Austrian education theorist and philosopher Rudolph Steiner. The four movements create contrasting textures from different sections of the blackboard drawings, responding to the use of colour and visual texture in the drawings...This is certainly an interesting collection of pieces demonstrating Eve Duncan’s current compositional strategies in chamber music.
Artists
Eve Duncan
composer
Eve Duncan has composed chamber, orchestral and vocal music, with performances at festivals throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. Her catalogue ranges from intimate solo and ensemble pieces to larger vocal and orchestral scores.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Silo String Quartet · ensemble · disc 1 tracks 1–4; disc 2 tracks 4–7
- Michael Kieran Harvey · piano · disc 1 tracks 1 and 2; disc 2 tracks 2 and 3
- Speak Percussion · percussion · disc 1 tracks 7 and 8
- Deborah Kayser · mezzo soprano · disc 1 track 3
- Barrie Webb · trombone · disc 1 track 4
- Aeri Ji · kayageum · disc 1 track 5
- Danaë Killian · piano · disc 2 tracks 4–10
- Alister Barker · cello · disc 1 track 6; disc 2 track 2
- Chien-Hsui Ong · cello · disc 1 track 6
- Amit Dolberg · piano · disc 2 track 1
- Ben Robertson · contrabass · disc 2 track 3
- Timothy Veldman · violin · disc 2 tracks 8–10
- Rachel Atkinson · cello · disc 2 track 11
- Sanna Tavares · speech · disc 2 track 11
- Young Jung Kim · viola · disc 1 track 5
- So-Yun Kim · flute · disc 1 track 5
- Aaron Barnden · violin · disc 1 tracks 1–4; disc 2 tracks 4–7
- Andrea Keeble · violin · disc 1 tracks 1–4; disc 2 tracks 4–7
- Ceridwen Davies · viola · disc 1 tracks 1–4; disc 2 tracks 4–7
- Caerwen Martin · cello · disc 1 tracks 1–4; disc 2 tracks 4–7
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Eyal Zaliouk
Martin Wright
Michael Hewes
Vaughan McAlley
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Editing Engineer
Martin Wright
Michael Hewes
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School
Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
Move Records Studio
The Classical Studio, Tel Aviv
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Credit
Jon Cattapan
Melanie Hayes
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 117 minutes 46 seconds
- Release date
- Apr 2013
- Category
- Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2013 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3362
- EAN
- 9314574336221
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