Hamilton
The Team of Pianists present a programme of excellent piano works for solo, duo and two pianos.
Darryl Coote piano
Alex Furman piano
Linda Kouvaras piano
Robert Chamberlain piano
Sonny Chua piano
Sonny Chua composer
Claude Debussy composer
Gabriel Fauré composer
Helen Gifford composer
Percy Grainger composer
Enrique Granados composer
George Frideric Handel composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer
Franz Liszt composer
Larry Sitsky composer
David Worrall composer
Popular classics, including Liszt’s Liebestraum, Debussy’s Clair de lune, Fauré’s Nocturne, Granados’ The Lover and the Nightingale, Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca and Handel’s Harmonious Blacksmith, as well as works by Australian composers Broadstock’s In the Silence of the Night, Gifford’s Sonata, Grainger’s Country Gardens, Sitsky’s Arch, Worrall’s Scorpion Under Glass and Chua’s Dance, Dance, Dance.
The recording grew out of a 1989 recital in Hamilton Town Hall in western Victoria. Cricket noise forced most of the sessions to Victoria College, Burwood, though Debussy’s Clair de lune was salvaged from Hamilton; the disc is dedicated to that city and its hall.
Reviews
Buy this recording ... first-class performances of Australian music.
Artist

Team of Pianists
The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.
Tracks
- Harmonious Blacksmith Variations George Frideric Handel
- Clair de lune Claude Debussy
- Sonata Helen Gifford
- Rondo alla Turca Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Nocturne Op. 36 in E♭ Gabriel Fauré
- Country Gardens Percy Grainger
- The Lover and the Nightingale Enrique Granados
- Danza (Spanish Dance No. 5) Enrique Granados
- In the Silence of the Night Brenton Broadstock
- Liebestraum No. 3 in A♭ Franz Liszt
- Arch (Fantasia No. 4) Larry Sitsky
- Scorpion Under Glass David Worrall
- Sketch Portrait David Worrall
- Dance, Dance, Dance (Episode No. 2) Sonny Chua
Performers
- Team of Pianists
- Darryl Coote · piano · tracks 1–3
- Alex Furman · piano · tracks 4–6
- Linda Kouvaras · piano · tracks 7–9
- Robert Chamberlain · piano · tracks 10–13
- Sonny Chua · piano · track 14
Composers

Brenton Broadstock
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.

Sonny Chua
Sonny Chua’s music assimilates seemingly incongruous ideas across a broad palette, drawing on classical, pop, jazz, rock, folk and techno influences with playful invention.

Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was a French composer, pianist, organist and teacher whose music links late Romanticism with early modernism. His best-known works include the Requiem, the Pavane, and a large body of songs and piano music.

Helen Gifford
Helen Gifford OAM is an Australian composer whose music often draws on Balinese and Javanese elements. She writes for stage, orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo instruments.

Percy Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. A brilliant folk-song collector and arranger, he was also a restless experimenter whose work ranged from tuneful percussion to Free Music machines that foreshadowed electronic synthesis.

Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados was born in Lérida in 1867. He studied the piano and composition in Barcelona and then in Paris, returning to Barcelona in 1889, and won distinction as a pianist and popularity in Spain with his zarzuelas and piano music.

George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-born Baroque composer who settled in London and became a naturalised British subject. He is celebrated for his operas, English oratorios, organ concertos and orchestral works.

Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic era. His vast output reshaped piano technique, invented the symphonic poem and pushed harmony toward the twentieth century.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Larry Sitsky
Larry Sitsky's activities as a composer, pianist, writer, broadcaster and teacher place him among the foremost ambassadors of contemporary Australian piano music. His work has made a lasting contribution to the Australian musical tradition.
Where to listen
Hamilton is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Hamilton is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MCD 042
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Producer
- Darryl Coote
Max Cooke - Recording Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Hamilton Town Hall
Victoria College, Burwood - Thanks to
- Colin & Cicely Rigg Estate
- Release date
- 1990
- Musical work
copyright - © The Team of Pianists
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1990 Move Records
- Categories
- Classical, Keyboard
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574004229
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