Listen & tracks
2 of 15 tracks have a preview · 10 works · 65:00
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1 Chominciamento di gioia Anonymous 6:21
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2 Les Folies d’Espagne Marin Marais 10:57
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3 Epithalamium Amanda Baker 6:11
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Suite I, BWV 1007Johann Sebastian Bach 6 movements16:54
- 4 Prelude 2:22
- 5 Allemande 4:09
- 6 Courante 2:26
- 7 Sarabande 2:55
- 8 Menuet I & II 3:39
- 9 Gigue 1:23
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10 Charavgi Calliope Tsoupaki 11:24
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11 She Moved Through the Fair Traditional 2:19
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12 Johnny I hardly Knew Ye Traditional 1:37
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13 Waly, Waly Traditional 2:32
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14 Paddy’s Lamentation Traditional 4:24
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15 She Moved Through the Fair Traditional 2:21
By 1999 Genevieve Lacey was already drawing praise as a world-class Australian recorder player. Poul Høxbro brought a specialist’s focus on medieval percussion, including the tar. Their collaboration moves freely between a fourteenth-century Italian dance, Marais and Bach, new works by Amanda Baker and Calliope Tsoupaki, and a set of traditional Irish airs.
The booklet presents original visual work by Danish artist Laura Rytter Holm.
In the artist’s words
The recorder is my voice. I have been telling stories with my recorder for as long as I can remember. My quest for new ideas and new ways of expressing them has taken me journeying across the world. An Australian, born in Papua New Guinea, educated in Australia (where I completed degrees in English literature and music), I moved to Europe for three years of intense study, first in Switzerland (at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), then in Denmark (at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, in the class of Dan Laurin).
Throughout this time, people (be they audience members, family, friends, examiners, adjudicators, students, teachers …) have responded warmly to my ability to communicate, to tell a story. And throughout this time, people have fed, nurtured, challenged and shaped this same ability.
I have had the privilege of playing countless concerts in Australia and Europe, recording for radio and television. Before leaving Australia I recorded my first solo CD, Phoenix Songs, a programme of contemporary Australian music.
I will continue to build my life around my story telling, hoping that my imagination proves fertile enough, my living rich enough, and my expression eloquent enough to sustain and inspire my listeners.
I am very fascinated by the life of different materials, their character and natural limitations. Therefore, a number of different materials are part of my basic tools: willow, wire, Polaroid, birch-bark, enamel, passport-photo-machine and different graphic techniques.
Most of the time, the way I express myself is through a series of variations over a theme. Three important themes in my work and art are: the human, music and literature. I try to express my love of these. To work is an opportunity for me to express ideas and emotions I can’t communicate any other way. My ideas form while listening to music, reading or just living in general.
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.
Marin Marais
composer
Marin Marais (1656–1728) was a French composer and master of the viola da gamba. His five books of Pièces de viole remain the summit of the French baroque viol repertoire.
Calliope Tsoupaki
composer
Calliope Tsoupaki's works have been performed in Europe and in the United States, and she has participated in various music festivals such as Festival New Music in Middelburg in 1990 and 1992, Gaudeamus International Music Week in Amsterdam in 1991 and 1993 and several others.
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
- Poul Høxbro · tar · tracks 1, 12–15
Technical credits
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Producer
Genevieve Lacey
Linda Kent
Martin Wright
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Venue
Move Records Studio
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 65 minutes 0 seconds
- Release date
- 1999
- Categories
- Classical, Early music, Folk music
- Genres
- Baroque, Early Music, Folk
- Musical work copyright
- © 1999 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1999 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3216
- EAN
- 9314574321623
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