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Flute Perspectives, Vol. 1

Flautist Derek Jones and pianist Leigh Harrold present this anthology of contemporary Australian flute music, from Sculthorpe’s Torres Strait cycle to solo and duo works by leading local composers.

Derek Jonesflute, alto flute, temple bell, drone Leigh Harroldpiano
  • CatalogueMD 3406
  • Released1 Mar 2016
  • Playing time64 minutes 25 seconds
  • Recorded at Move Records Studio

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3 of 14 tracks have a preview · 7 works · 64:25

  1. Songs of Sea and SkyPeter Sculthorpe 6 movements16:21
    1. 1 Flute solo :52
    2. 2 Saibai 4:01
    3. 3 Second flute solo 2:33
    4. 4 Mission hymn 3:16
    5. 5 Dance-like 2:22
    6. 6 Wei 3:17
  2. 7 Flute (2001) Barry Conyngham 4:35
  3. 8 Lily's Garden Brian Brown 4:57
  4. 9 Stillness Derek Jones 5:48
  5. 10 Goldfish through Summer Rain (1979) Anne Boyd 4:44
  6. 11 Under Simple Stars (1989) Mark Pollard 13:59
  7. Sonata (1972)Phyllis Batchelor 3 movements14:01
    1. 12 Molto Allegro 4:03
    2. 13 Adagio 6:30
    3. 14 Vivace 3:28

Some of the finest names in Australian composition are represented here: Peter Sculthorpe, Barry Conyngham, Brian Brown, Anne Boyd, Mark Pollard, Phyllis Batchelor, and Derek Jones himself.

The programme opens with Sculthorpe’s Torres Strait–inspired Songs of Sea and Sky, then moves through solo works by Conyngham, Brown, Jones and Pollard, Boyd’s meditative Goldfish through Summer Rain, and Batchelor’s three-movement Sonata for flute and piano.

In the artist’s words

Songs of Sea and Sky was inspired by a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island just south of Papua New Guinea, in Torres Strait. The song was collected on Saibai by Jeremy Beckett in May 1961. Much of the surviving music of Torres Strait is concerned with the sea voyages, flights of birds and changes in sea and sky. Some of the music has been influenced by hymns introduced by missionaries in the 19th century. This work, then, is in one continuous movement consisting of six parts; a somewhat dramatic flute solo; Saibai, an introductory reworking of the traditional dance song; a second solo, suggested by a flute melody from the eastern Torres Strait; Mission Hymn, a variation of Saibai; a dance-like section shared by flute and piano; and Wei, a variation of the dance song, an affirmation of oneness of sea and sky.

— Peter Sculthorpe

Artists

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Derek Jones

flute, alto flute, temple bell, drone

Derek Jones has enjoyed an extensive performing career throughout Australia, Europe, the USA and Asia. Solo appearances include the Melbourne Symphony, the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the last of these taking him to Carnegie Hall, New York.

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Leigh Harrold

piano

Leigh has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Australia as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts at Australia House in London, the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Harare International Festival of Arts, and concerto engagements with many Australian orchestras.

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Phyllis Batchelor

composer

Phyllis Batchelor (1915–1999) was an Australian composer, pianist and teacher whose own works featured regularly in her ABC broadcasts from the 1930s onward.

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Anne Boyd

composer

Anne Boyd enjoys a distinguished career as a composer and music educator. A graduate of the University of Sydney (BA Hons in Music, 1967) and the University of York (PhD in composition, 1972), she has shaped Australian musical life through both her writing and her teaching.

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Brian Brown

composer

Brian Brown (1933–2013) was an Australian jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer and educator whose original music helped define a local improvising voice. From the 1950s he led his own ensembles and later founded improvisation studies at the Victorian College of the Arts.

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Barry Conyngham

composer

Barry Conyngham, born in Sydney, has received numerous awards and fellowships for composition, among them Churchill, Harkness, Australia Council and Senior Fulbright grants. He holds an ARIA, two Sounds Australian Critics Awards and two Maggs Awards.

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Mark Pollard

composer

Australian composer Mark Clement Pollard has an eclectic style that draws on improvisation, jazz, pop, minimalism and the indigenous musics of South-East Asia.

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Peter Sculthorpe

composer

Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014) was a Tasmanian-born composer whose orchestral and chamber music drew the Australian landscape, neighbouring Asian traditions and Indigenous materials into a clear, personal language. He wrote extensively for strings, piano and voice.

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Technical credits

  • Recording Engineer Martin Wright
    Vaughan McAlley
  • Editing Engineer Martin Wright
    Vaughan McAlley
  • Venue Move Records Studio
  • Thanks to Faculty of the VCA and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
  • Credit Benjamin Thomas
    Martin Wright

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
64 minutes 25 seconds
Release date
Categories
Australian, Classical
Genre
Contemporary Classical
Musical work copyright
© 2016 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2016 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3406
EAN
9314574340624

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