28 October 2010
Australian Music on ABC Classic FM in November 2010
In November we're celebrating Australian Music Month on ABC Classic FM. We're bringing you a series of special programs including weekend broadcast premieres of six new Australian operas, a weekday afternoon series of programs with music selections from the archives, and tribute programs to the memory of Ken Tribe. Check out the highlights below for more details.
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Opera in Performance
Sunday 14 November 7.05pm - OZ OPERA: The Children's
Bach
Andrew Schultz - The Children's Bach. Chamber Made
Opera: Kathryn Grey, soprano; Tess Duddy, soprano; Dimity
Shepherd, mezzo-soprano; Jackson Cairnduff, treble; James
Christensen, treble; James Egglestone, tenor; Andrea Carcassi,
baritone; Hannah Kostros, child soprano; Alexa Madden, child
soprano; Mitchell Berick, clarinet; Susannah Ng, violin; James
Cowell, cello; Nick Synot, double-bass; Mark Kruger, piano;
Eugene Ughetti, percussion; Nicholas Carter, conductor
Sunday 21 November 7.05pm - OZ OPERA: Through the Looking
Glass
Alan John - Through the Looking Glass. Performers:
Dimity Shepherd, soprano; David Hobson, tenor; Margaret Haggart,
mezzo-soprano; Suzanne Johnston, contralto; Kanen Breen, tenor;
Gary Rowley, bass-baritone; Emilia Bertolini, child soprano;
Stephanie Pidcock, child soprano; Jacqueline Bathman, child
actor; Francesca Côdd, child actor; Hayley Heath, child actor;
Dana Hehir, child actor; Timothy Hook, percussion; Delyth
Stafford, harp; Nicholas Carter, harmonium; David McSkimming,
piano; Richard Gill, conductor
New Music Up Late
With Julian Day
Saturday 2 November 10.30pm - OZ OPERA: Crossing
Live
Bringing you the first in a month of special Australian chamber
opera broadcast premieres. Presented by Melbourne's Chamber Made
Opera, Crossing Live by composer Bryony Marks thrusts us
into the on-and-off camera world of a current affairs TV studio
with the anchor presenter as the diva.
Performers: Steve Adams, actor; Chloe Armstrong, actor; Luke
Elliot, actor; Evelyn Krape, actor; Stewart Morritt, actor; John
O'May, actor; Greg Stone, actor; Dimity Shepherd, mezzo-soprano;
Zoe Black, violin; Leigh Raymond, violin; Erkki Veltheim, viola;
Josephine Vains, cello; Miranda Hall, bass; Jane Robertson,
clarinet; Graeme Leak, percussion; Brett Kelly, conductor
Saturday 13 November 10.30pm - OZ OPERA: The
Navigator
Liza Lim's opera The Navigator is another Australian
music month broadcast premiere. Presented by ELISION, The
Navigator is a contemporary opera full of the ancient themes
of desire and death that have been the stuff of opera since the
creation of the form more than 400 years ago.
Performers: Elision Ensemble; Genevieve Lacey, recorder; Deborah
Kayser, soprano; Talise Trevigne, soprano; Andrew Watts,
counter-tenor; Omar Ebrahim, baritone; Phillip Larson,
bass-baritone; Manuel Nawri, conductor
Saturday 20 November 10.30pm - OZ OPERA: Exile
Iphigenia in Exile by Helen Gifford uses an ensemble of
reeds, percussion and plucked strings to conjure an archaic sound
world as the backdrop to soloist Deborah Kayser's exploration of
Iphigenia's interior worlds. Composed in 1986 but receiving its
broadcast première tonight, Exile is on its way to
becoming the world's first iPad opera in the hands of Chamber
Made Opera and their collaborators Aphids.
Performers: Helen Gifford, speaker; David Young, speaker; Deborah
Kayser, soprano; Chris Clark, piccolo, clay flute; Nicole Canham,
clarinet; Aviva Endean, clarinet; Karen Heath, bass clarinet; Ken
Murray, mandolin; Peter Neville, percussion; Matthias
Schack-Arnott, percussion; Eugene Ughetti, percussion; Brett
Kelly, conductor
Saturday 27 November 10.30pm - Artefacts of Australian
Experimental Music
Coming to you almost live from the ABC's Iwaki auditorium, this
concert is the launch event for a new double CD release in the
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music series from
Clinton Green's Shame File Music. On the bill tonight are Golden
Fur performing Ron Nagorcka's 1977 tape recorder opera Atom
Bomb, plus sets by Jon Rose, Browning Mummery and Sarah
Hopkins.
And on Fridays...
5, 12, 19 and 26 November 10.30pm
During Australian Music month you'll hear broadcast premieres of
a selection of recent ABC concert recordings of new Australian
music.
In Performance
Monday 1 November 8.00pm - Southern Cross Soloists
St Peters Chorale; Alexis Kenny, flute; Monique Latemore,
soprano; Gregory Messingham, narrator; Graeme Morton, conductor.
Program: Mozart arr. Paul Dean - Ch'io scordi di te,
K505; Stephen Leek - The Future; Paul Stanhope -
Pirramimma, garden of dreams; Mendelssohn arr. Paul Dean
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday 5 November 8.00pm Amir Farid, piano; David Pereira, cello;
Bonnie Smart, cello.
Includes Ross Edwards - Koto Dreaming: Water Spirit
Song; Hindson - Jungle Fever
Thursday 11 November 7.05pm Australian String Quartet
Includes Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No 6
Friday 12 November 8.00pm - OZ OPERA: Love in the Age of
Therapy
Paul Grabowsky - Love in the Age of Therapy. Orchestra
Victoria: Christine Douglas, soprano; Roxane Hislop,
mezzo-soprano; Dimity Shepher, mezzo-soprano; Kanen Breen, tenor;
Richard Greager, tenor; Lyndon Terracini, baritone; Jon Jackson,
vocalist; Julia de Plater, conductor
Tuesday 16 November 7.05pm - TrioZ LIVE fromCity Recital Hall,
Sydney
Performers: Kathryn Selby, piano; Dimity Hall, violin; Emma-Jane
Murphy, cello.
Includes Peter Sculthorpe - String Quartet No 6
Thursday 18 November 8.30pm - The 12 Cellists of the Berlin
Philharmonic LIVE fromQueensland Conservatorium Theatre,
Brisbane.
Includes Brett Dean - Twelve Angry Men
Monday 22 November 7.00pm - Musica Viva Australia: Atos Trio LIVE
fromCity Recital Hall, Sydney.
Includes Paul Stanhope - Piano Trio Dolcissimo Uscignolo
Monday 22 November 9.30pm - Ferry Road Chamber Players
Includes Piazzolla arr. Alice Giles - L'Histoire du
Tango
Afternoon Concerts
Tuesday 9 November 1.05pm - Australia Ensemble
Includes Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Concertino da camera;
Nigel Butterley - Spindles of the stars
Saturday 20 November 1.00pm - Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Includes Paul Stanhope - Fantasia on a theme by Vaughan
Williams
Thursday 25 November 1.05pm - Musica Viva Australia: Pavel Haas
Quartet
Includes Paul Stanhope - String Quartet No 2
On Our Selection
at 4.05pm, special selections by Gregory Dobbs for Australian Music Month
Monday 8 November
Includes William Garnet James - The Debutante; Roy Agnew
- The Breaking of the Drought; works by Elena
Kats-Chernin and Alfred Hill
Tuesday 9 November
Includes Esther Rofe - Terra Australis; Peter Sculthorpe
- Mangrove
Thursday 11 November
Includes Frederick Septimus Kelly - Elegy for Strings
In Memoriam Rupert Brooke; Nigel Westlake - The
Glass Soldier Suite; Peter Sculthorpe - Gallipoli
Symphony: 'Thoughts of Home'
Monday15 November
Matthew Hindson - Violin Concerto: III 'Grand Final Day'; Ross
Edwards - Veni Creator Spiritus; Don Banks - Meeting
Place: Movement III
Tuesday 16 November
Includes Dorian Le Gallienne - Sinfonietta; Richard
Meale - Symphony No. 1
Thursday 18 November
Phillip Houghton - From the Dreaming: II 'Wildflowe'r;
III G'ecko'; William Lovelock - Concerto for trumpet and
orchestra; Martin Wesley-Smith - Oom Pah Pah
Monday 22 November
Vincent Plush - Pacifica; Malcolm Williamson arr. Brian
Brown - Azure; Moya Henderson - G'Day Africa:
III
Tuesday 23 November
Robert Hughes -Essay; Edgar Bainton - Concerto
Fantasia
Thursday 25 November
Hubert Clifford - Symphony 1940: I 'Moderato con anima';
Arthur Benjamin - Symphony No 1: I. 'Largo'; Peggy
Glanville-Hicks - Etruscan Concerto
Afternoons at Home
at 4.05pm
Wednesday 10 November
Richard Mills - Trumpet Concerto; Mark Clement Pollard
- Piano Sonata No. 1: 2nd movement
Friday 12 November
Carl Vine - Microsymphony; Eric Gross -
Dusekiana; Gerard Brophy - charm
Wednesday 17 November
Nigel Westlake - Winter In the Forgotten Valley; Sean
O'Boyle - Concerto for shakuhachi and orchestra; Anne
Boyd - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Friday 19 November
Richard Charlton - Surface Tension; Philip Bracanin
- Symphony No 2: 'Andante con tempo rubato';
Graeme Koehne Divertissement: Trois pièces bourgeoises
Wednesday 24 November
Percy Grainger - The Warriors; Maria Grenfell - Di
Primavera; Kate Adam, Dean Frenkel, Ariel Valent -
Summer Waves
Friday 26 November
Philip Czaplowski - Concerto for clarinet and strings;
Elena Kats-Chernin - Charleston Noir; Stuart Greenbaum
- But I Want the Harmonica
Afternoons
Monday 29 November 4.05pm - Ken Tribe - A Tribute Program: Part
1
Includes works by Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine, Ross Edwards and
Lyn Williams
Tuesday 30 November 4.05pm - Ken Tribe - A Tribute Program: Part
2
Includes works by Lyn Williams, Ross Edwards Peter Sculthorpe and
Nigel Westlake
Music Makers
Saturday 27 November 12.05pm - Ken Tribe: A Celebration
Ken Tribe exerted an enormous influence on Australian music,
composers and musicians. He died on July 16 this year, aged 96,
and in August, Musica Viva Australia hosted a concert to
celebrate his extraordinary life. This celebration featured
tributes from family, friends and former colleagues, together
with performances by Australian artists with whom he was closely
associated throughout his life. It honoured the extensive
contribution he made to the arts in Australia and for which he
had such a love.
Saturday Session
Saturday 13 November 3.00pm - Maria Okunev, soprano; Louise Scott
Houghton, piano
Includes Betty Beath - Towards the Psalms; Alan John -
The Eighth Wonder: When English ships; George Palmer -
Aimons-nous et dormons
Saturday 20 November 3.00pm Ashley Hribar, piano
Includes Gershwin arr Ashley Hribar Rhapsody in Blue;
Grainger In Dahomey (Cakewalk Smasher); Roy Agnew
Capricornia (Sonata Legend); Roy Agnew Poem No
1
Saturday 27 November 3.00pm - John Cran, bassoon; Ludinda Cran,
bassoon; Akemi Schubert, piano; Sumiko Yamamura, piano
Includes Colin Brumby - Bassoon Sonata
At Home
Saturdays at 7.05pm with Julian Day
2 November
Graeme Koehne - Tivoli Dances: 'Santa Ana Freeway';
Margaret Sutherland - Violin Sonata; Stephen Leek -
Glasshouses
13 November
Alan Banks - Cubasso; Peggy Glanville-Hicks -
Sappho: Final Scene; Nick Tsiavos - run rabbit
run...: Sequenza 3; Paul Stanhope - Three Geography
Songs; Ross Edwards - Koto Dreaming
20 November
John Williams - Slow Dub; Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild
Swans Concert Suite: 'Green Leaf'; Eliza Aria;
Brothers; Carl Crossin - Dance for the Daughters of
Eve; Carl Vine - Piano Sonata; John Williams -
Extra Time
27 November
Nigel Westlake - Flying Fish; Sean Rigney -
Chamber Concerto; Eduard Grigoryan - Day Dreams
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