Solos Duos Trios

Chamber music by Haydn Reeder for soloists and small ensembles, composed between 1998 and 2023. Piano, strings, flute and harp in solos, duos and trios, nearly all recorded here for the first time.

Danaë Killian piano
Philip Nixon violin
Rosanne Hunt cello
Johanna Selleck flutes
Barbara Hornung viola
Katia Mestrovic harp
Susan Pierotti violin
Elton Sun piano

Haydn Reeder composer

Except for the 1998 piano solo Tolling Bell Song, these are world-premiere recordings. The writing moves between chromatic, expressionist colour and what Reeder terms evolving repetition, with bells and change-ringing as recurring images.

Two Pieces for Piano Trio opens the disc. Duos and a flute–viola–harp trio follow, before six intermediate piano studies. Later piano works and the solo cello piece Surrounding the Cello complete a survey of his recent chamber thinking.

With the exception of the piano solo Tolling Bell Song, all of the pieces are world premieres. That solo is the oldest piece: the others are relatively recent having been written during 2012 to 2023. Various styles and many different techniques will be discerned, ranging from chromaticism as in the expressionist-influenced Rondo to what I call evolving repetition as in Surrounding the Cello. Throughout, you will hear the influence of bells (Wheels Piece) and bell-ringing (Rondo).

— Haydn Reeder

Reviews

This CD of the music by Haydn Reeder offers a treasure trove of delightful gems by one of Australia’s leading senior composers. Invention abounds, the music sings and one is always captivated by the arching structural lines that demands that the music must go on and so often this music is full of a beauty that beguiles. And the performers are caring and brilliant, the recordings, the artwork and the CD itself are all first rate and continues the excellence that MOVE has set for more than five decades.

— Alan Holley, ClassikON

Artist

Haydn Reeder

Haydn Reeder (b. 1944) is an Australian composer, pianist and teacher whose chamber, orchestral, vocal, choral and live-electronic works have been commissioned and performed in Australia and abroad.

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Tracks

Two Pieces for Piano Trio (2012) Haydn Reeder

Growth and Transformation 4:53
Flowering of the Resonances 6:11
Lines in a Landscape (2016) Haydn Reeder 7:25
Waxing and Waning (2019) Haydn Reeder 5:40
Wheels within Wheels (2022) Haydn Reeder 4:30
Tolling Bell Song (1998) Haydn Reeder 4:21

Six Studies (2014) Haydn Reeder

Study 1 :55
Study 2 :53
Study 3 1:01
Study 4 3:06
Study 5 1:26
Study 6 1:41
Wheels Piece (2022) Haydn Reeder 2:27
The Spinning and Weaving of Destiny (2023) Haydn Reeder 3:29
Surrounding the Cello (2023) Haydn Reeder 4:56
Rondo (2021) Haydn Reeder 4:24

Performers

Danaë Killian · all except tracks 3–5, 7–12 and 15
Philip Nixon · tracks 1 and 2
Rosanne Hunt · tracks 1, 2, 5 and 15
Johanna Selleck · flutes · tracks 3 and 4
Barbara Hornung · track 3
Katia Mestrovic · track 3
Susan Pierotti · tracks 4 and 5
Elton Sun · tracks 7–12

Where to listen

Solos Duos Trios is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.

Solos Duos Trios is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.