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14 works · 71:59

1 Harmonious Blacksmith Variations George Frideric Handel 4:11
2 Clair de lune Claude Debussy 5:38
3 Sonata Helen Gifford 8:23
4 Rondo alla Turca Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3:28
5 Nocturne Op. 36 in E♭ Gabriel Fauré 7:16
6 Country Gardens Percy Grainger 2:05
7 The Lover and the Nightingale Enrique Granados 5:55
8 Danza (Spanish Dance No. 5) Enrique Granados 3:36
9 In the Silence of the Night Brenton Broadstock 9:34
10 Liebestraum No. 3 in A♭ Franz Liszt 5:08
11 Arch (Fantasia No. 4) Larry Sitsky 4:56
12 Scorpion Under Glass David Worrall 4:34
13 Sketch Portrait David Worrall 2:40
14 Dance, Dance, Dance (Episode No. 2) Sonny Chua 4:35

Popular classics include 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, alongside Australian works: 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.

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Artists

Team of Pianists

ensemble

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.

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.

Sonny Chua

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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

composer

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.