Listen & tracks
19 works · 62:42
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1 Dreamboat Blues Amanda Handel 1:52
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2 Bootleg Blues Amanda Handel 1:45
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3 Blue Laze Amanda Handel 4:44
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4 A Walk Down Ragtime Lane Tom Anderson 3:04
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5 Nonchalance Elena Kats-Chernin 6:50
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6 Reflections Elena Kats-Chernin 2:16
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7 Round Midday Matthew Dennett 4:42
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8 Sassafras Gully Waltz Ross Edwards 2:14
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9 Sandy Stone’s Waltz Ross Edwards 3:04
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10 Annandale Waltz Ross Edwards 3:20
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11 Take Seven Rod Heard 2:53
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12 Summer Arrives Rod Heard 5:09
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13 Barbera Blues Rod Heard 4:24
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14 Rags to Riches Rod Heard 2:58
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15 The Everglades at Dawn John Martin 3:29
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16 Taurus Stuart Greenbaum 1:30
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17 Looking to the Future Stuart Greenbaum 1:46
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18 The Baroqua Rag May Howlett 2:03
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19 The Solitary Rag Ann Carr-Boyd 4:39
Much of the programme leans on ragtime, blues and jazz, yet stays firmly melodic. Ross Edwards contributes three light Australian waltzes. May Howlett’s The Baroqua Rag winks at Bach inside a ragtime frame. Ann Carr-Boyd wrote The Solitary Rag at the start of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Martin himself plays The Everglades at Dawn, inspired by the National Trust gardens at Leura in the Blue Mountains.
The disc is entirely solo piano. Martin is also widely known as an accompanist; Jane Rutter and Peter Cousens have praised his playing, erudition and elegant manners on tour.
Artists
John Martin
piano
“A singer could ask no more of a pianist than sensitive hands, intuitive musicality, and an acute awareness of the singer’s breathing and phrasing. John Martin is such a pianist and then some! A consummate musician and composer who revels in the art of ensemble, John lives and breathes music. All fortunate enough to hear this man performing live never forget the experience.”—Jose Carbo, premier Australian baritone.
Tom Anderson
composer
Born in 1955, Tom Anderson has in his later years turned to composition, after being a pianist and organist in the 1970s.
Ann Carr-Boyd
composer
Ann Carr-Boyd has been involved in music and its many manifestations all her life. Born in 1938 into a family of professional musicians, she studied piano from an early age with her father, Norbert Wentzel and violin and viola with her Uncle, Charles Wentzel.
Matthew Dennett
composer
Matthew Dennett is a Canberra based jazz pianist, accordionist, improviser, composer, and educator.
Ross Edwards
composer
One of Australia's best known and most performed composers, Ross Edwards lives and works in Sydney. His commitment to music as a positive and regenerative force has led him to explore beyond the confines of Western art music.
Stuart Greenbaum
composer
Stuart Greenbaum’s sound has overt connections to jazz, pop and minimalism, yet is equally grounded in the Western art music tradition, across a large body of orchestral, chamber, choral and stage works.
Amanda Handel
composer
Amanda is an active composer/pianist with a large portfolio of works - including piano, string orchestra, woodwinds, guitar and various chamber ensembles. She is represented by Wirripang Publications with some of her works appearing in AMEB publications and ANZCA syllabi.
Rod Heard
composer
Rod Heard was born in Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley in 1954 and attended High School in Dungog at which time he was awarded a piano scholarship to the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
May Howlett
composer
May Howlett, born in Subiaco, WA, in 1931, won various scholarships, including a secondary studentship to study Music at Melbourne University Conservatorium (majoring in Pianoforte and Singing), graduating in 1954 with a Bachelor of Music, and obtaining a Diploma of Education the following year.
Elena Kats-Chernin
composer
Elena Kats-Chernin AO (born 1957) is an Australian composer whose piano rags, chamber miniatures, ballet and stage scores have become central to contemporary Australian repertoire.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- John Martin · piano
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Damian de Boos-Smith
Maria Alfonsine
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Mixing Engineer
Damian de Boos-Smith
Maria Alfonsine
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Mastering Engineer
Damian de Boos-Smith
Maria Alfonsine
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Venue
The Rose Room, Burradoo NSW
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 62 minutes 42 seconds
- Release date
- 2022
- Categories
- Australian, Keyboard
- Musical work copyright
- © 2022 John Martin
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2022 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MCD 622
- EAN
- 9314574062229
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