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Fortune My FoeRoger Heagney 11 movements
1. 1 Prelude
2. 2 Love
3. 3 The Good Samaritan
4. 4 Fortune My Foe
5. 5 Variation 3
6. 6 Love Song
7. 7 White Nights
8. 8 Swan’s Way
9. 9 The Gods We Worship
10. 10 Saint Cecilia’s Day
11. 11 Interlude
Liederkreis, Op. 39Robert Schumann 12 movements
1. 12 i. In the Unknown
2. 13 ii. Intermezzo
3. 14 iii. Forest Discourse
4. 15 iv. Silence
5. 16 v. Moonlight
6. 17 vi. Beauteous Unknown
7. 18 vii. In a Castle
8. 19 viii. In the Unknown
9. 20 ix. Melancholy
10. 21 x. Twilight
11. 22 xi. In the Wood
12. 23 xii. Spring Night

This recording project aims to raise funds for Australian Catholic Religious Against Human Trafficking, a charity working to eliminate human trafficking in Australia.

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to Stephen Snelleman, Margaret and Dave Knight, Nick and Pen Alexander, Martin Wright of Move Records, and Martin Buzacott and Pat Sergo at ABC Classics, without whose assistance this CD would not have appeared. The artists, poet and composer donated their talents for the release. Fiona Horman of Regency Media and Theo Prosenica of PMS Lithography generously donated CD manufacturing and booklet printing.

Words © Graeme Ellis 2008. Music © Roger Heagney 2008. Cover image: ‘Prayer of St Francis’ by Pat Negri. Recorded by the ABC at the Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank, on 20 May 2009.

Producer: Stephen Snelleman; Engineer: Jim Atkins. ℗ 2010 Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Artists

Roger Heagney

composer

Roger Heagney has gained an international reputation as a pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer, giving recitals in Germany, France, England, Brunei and China, and appearing at festivals and on radio and television in Australia.

Merlyn Quaife

soprano

Merlyn Quaife is a distinguished soprano and performer of great versatility, acclaimed in opera, oratorio, lieder, chamber music and contemporary repertoire throughout Australia, Europe and the USA.

Graeme Ellis

songwriter

Graeme Ellis (b. 1944) is a Melbourne-born poet whose verse has been set in contemporary Australian art song.

Andrea Katz

piano

Pianist Andrea Katz partners soprano Merlyn Quaife in song that refuses to look away: protest anthems, camp cabaret, art-song elegies and new Australian cycles, shaped with warmth, irony and unflinching clarity at the keyboard.

Robert Schumann

composer

Robert Schumann (1810–1856) was a German composer and music critic of the early Romantic era. His piano works and songs remain among the most enduring of the period.