Listen & tracks
2 of 12 tracks have a preview · 8 works · 49:30
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1 Aureole 3 Brenton Broadstock 11:25
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2 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Neil Currie 5:40
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3 Lingua Silens Florum Ian Shanahan 1:41
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Pipistrelli gialli (Yellow bats)Benjamin Thorn 3 movements8:26
- 4 i. 2:28
- 5 ii. 2:45
- 6 iii. 3:13
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7 Cathy's Song Ian Shanahan 1:16
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8 Helical Ribbon Ian Shanahan :54
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Phoenix SongsAmanda Baker 3 movements18:26
- 9 Prelude 5:02
- 10 Arabesque 4:12
- 11 Rhapsody 9:12
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12 Flight Ros Bandt 1:42
The opening work, Brenton Broadstock’s Aureole 3, is concerned with the dichotomy between holy and unholy, good and evil, consonance and dissonance. A fierce conflict between these opposing elements is fought out as harpsichord and recorder continually exchange roles.
Amanda Baker’s title piece Phoenix Songs is an interplay of struggle between two forces. Robert Chamberlain’s ethereal piano shimmers and thunderous outbursts match the violently articulated fragments of Genevieve Lacey’s recorder, pushing both instruments to their limits – and sometimes beyond.
In Ros Bandt’s Flight, birds hover and swoop, caught and sustained by air currents. Here the recorder soars effortlessly, flying free from all stereotypes.
Also heard are Ian Shanahan’s Helical Ribbon, Benjamin Thorn’s spectacular Yellow Bats, and Neil Currie’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
In the artist’s words
This project began with the idea that, as a young musician soon to go overseas, I needed to find and to take with me something of my own country’s recorder repertoire.
The majority of the composers whose works are presented on this recording are also recorder players, so these pieces are written with an intimate knowledge of the instrument, and real respect for it. They draw on all the subtleties of recorder-specific effects, playing with (and often denying) the expectations we have of recorder sounds, in order to demonstrate the instrument’s extraordinary versatility and chameleon-like qualities.
I fly from my beloved Australia into a new world, deeply grateful to be taking these gifts with me…
Reviews
plenty of new territory to explore.
... a testament to the strength of compositional and performing talent in Australia.
This excellently devised and performed program displays the recorder as a valid instrument of contemporary expression.
Artists
Genevieve Lacey
recorder
Genevieve Lacey is an Australian recorder virtuoso, creator and curator who has opened new ground for her instrument. She commissions and premieres contemporary work, performs music across ten centuries, and records extensively.
Ros Bandt
composer
Ros Bandt is an Australian composer, performer and sound artist whose work joins ancient instruments, environmental sound and live electronics in spatial music, installation and sound sculpture.
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.
Neil Currie
composer
Currie has been the recipient of numerous commissions, including over a dozen funded by the Australia Council and a recent commission from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which resulted in Glenside for Chamber Orchestra. He now resides in Canada.
Ian Shanahan
composer
Ian Shanahan is an Australian composer and recorder player, widely regarded for his command of contemporary techniques and for widening what the instrument can do.
Benjamin Thorn
composer
Benjamin Thorn is an Australian composer and recorder player based in Armidale, New South Wales. He is best known for his works for the recorder.
Amanda Baker
composer
Amanda Baker is a Melbourne composer whose work ranges from electronic pieces to chamber, choral and piano music, shaped by an early turn away from conventional idioms toward new sound worlds.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Genevieve Lacey · recorder
- Hartley Newnham · vocals · track 2
- Robert Chamberlain · piano · tracks 9–11
- Ann Murphy · harpsichord · track 1
- David Corbet · live electronics · tracks 4–6
Technical credits
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Producer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Credit
Brent Ottley
Philip Wischer
Victoria Watts
Warwick Dalton
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 49 minutes 30 seconds
- Release date
- 1995
- Categories
- Australian, Classical
- Musical work copyright
- © 1995 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1995 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3165
- EAN
- 9314574316520
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