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The Night Sky Glory: Songs and Choral Works by Lachlan Brown

Vocal works by Lachlan Brown: songs on poems by Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine and Rainer Maria Rilke, with wordless vocalises and choral meditations for multi-tracked voices.

Lachlan Browntenor, bass No photograph: Jenna Roubos Jenna Roubossoprano Len Vorsterpiano Holly Hainessoprano, alto
  • CatalogueMCD 650
  • Released24 Apr 2024
  • Playing time47 minutes 56 seconds

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4 of 13 tracks have a preview · 10 works · 47:56

  1. 1 Frühling ist wiedergekommen Lachlan Brown 4:36
  2. 2 Hier au soir Lachlan Brown 3:34
  3. 3 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges Lachlan Brown 3:05
  4. 4 Vocalise No. 1 for soprano and harp Lachlan Brown 4:12
  5. 5 Vocalise No. 5 for treble and organ Lachlan Brown 5:26
  6. 6 Schon horch Lachlan Brown 5:50
  7. 7 The Night Sky Glory Lachlan Brown 3:10
  8. Meditations for choirLachlan Brown 3 movements10:37
    1. 8 iii. 3:13
    2. 9 iv. 2:37
    3. 10 v. 4:47
  9. Forest VoicesLachlan Brown 2 movements5:31
    1. 11 i. 1:56
    2. 12 ii. 3:35
  10. 13 Night Falls in the Forest Lachlan Brown 1:55

Legendary accompanist Len Vorster joins tenors Lyndon Green, Timothy Reynolds and Alastair Cooper-Golec and soprano Jenna Roubos in Brown’s settings of Hugo, Heine and Rilke.

The music tracks the poetry closely, by turn joyful, sensuous and melancholy.

The rest of the album is wordless: vocalises for Roubos with harp and for treble Jimmy Hilton with organ, then choral meditations and forest pieces sung by Brown with Elspeth Bawden, Alison Rae-Jones and Holly Haines.

Reviews

This first offering features pianist Len Vorster, soprano Jenna Roubos, soprano/altos Holly Haines and Alison Rae-Jones and Elspeth Bawden, treble Jimmy Hilton, tenors Timothy Reynolds and Alastair Cooper-Golec and Lyndon Green, the composer himself doubling as tenor and bass, harp Megan Reeve, violins George Vi and Marianne Rothschild, viola Karen Columbine, cello Michelle John, and organ Lachlan Redd. As you can see, some of these participants have been (and continue to be) significant members of the country’s (mainly Melbourne’s) musical community. Brown’s music is not impressive for its inventiveness but moves along well-trodden paths, compositional tropes that are very common territory. Much of it is pleasant and deft in its organization but it ignores most of what has happened in Western music over the last 120 years.

— Clive O'Connell, O'Connell the Music

Artists

Photograph of Lachlan Brown

Lachlan Brown

tenor, bass

Lachlan Brown is an Australian composer of Impressionist and Romantic music, shaped by Mahler, Debussy and Delius. He writes especially for harp, soprano, chamber ensembles and wordless choir.

 No photograph: Jenna Roubos

Jenna Roubos

soprano

Jenna Roubos is a soprano who performs art song and wordless vocal music on Move. Her recordings include settings of German Romantic poetry and a song cycle drawn from ancient Chinese poems.

 Photograph of Len Vorster

Len Vorster

piano

Len Vorster is one of Australia's finest accompanists, and artistic director of Classical Palette (a Naxos series devoted to contemporary music), of the Schirmer Ensemble, and of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.

 Photograph of Holly Haines

Holly Haines

soprano, alto

Holly is a high-soprano singer. She has been involved in choirs, musical theatre (both in New York and Australia) and has recorded works for a local composer in Melbourne.

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Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
47 minutes 56 seconds
Release date
Category
Classical
Genres
Contemporary Classical, Choral & Sacred, Vocal & Opera
Musical work copyright
© 2024 Lachlan Brown
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2024 Move Records
Catalogue
MCD 650
EAN
9314574065022

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