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Complete music for solo piano / David Lumsdaine ; Mark Knoop, piano.
- Published by Tall Poppies — December, 2008 [TP198] — 1 CD (80 min.)
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Featured Australian works
featuring Mark Knoop (performer)
Duration: 31 mins, 2 sec.
Recorded/performed at: Opera Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Aug 06.
featuring Mark Knoop (performer)
Duration: 24 mins, 14 sec.
Recorded/performed at: Opera Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music., on Aug 06.
featuring Mark Knoop (performer)
Duration: 19 mins, 23 sec.
Recorded/performed at: Opera Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Aug 06.
featuring Mark Knoop (performer)
Duration: 4 mins, 33 sec.
Recorded/performed at: Opera Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Aug 06.
Product details
Tall Poppies Records is proud to release this important recording
of the Complete Works for Solo Piano by Australian composer David
Lumsdaine. The music, spanning nearly 30 years of Lumsdaine’s
compositional life, contains important markers of his compositional
concerns and how they have changed through the years. It reveals
David Lumsdaine as one of our most important compositional voices,
and how important Australia is to him, especially during his
residence in the UK. He is clearly fascinated with Australian
birdsong, and has a profound relationship with the music of
Bach.
In this recording he has the perfect advocate in Australian pianist
Mark Knoop. Knoop’s performances are astonishing in their
virtuosity and their respect for the music. It is hard to imagine a
more perfect rendition of this tough but immensely rewarding
music.
This recording has been funded by the Australia Council.
Duration: 80 min.
Liner notes include programme notes and biographical notes on performer.
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A review of the CD
Posted by Michael Hooper on 4 June, 2009
Tim Rutherford-Johnson's review of this CD can be found here:
In part:
'An Australian landscape and a national hero. One is tempted to uncover an underlying nationalism, but to do so would be to miss the point. Despite his titles, Lumsdaine doesn’t deal in musical representations – or at least, not in any straightforward, unmediated way. He avoids parochialism by unearthing from such stories and locations structures that speak to universal experience: the tensions between freedom and a determined society, the sensation of open space and one’s own environment. It is such steadfast belief in the power of technical abstraction to articulate human concerns that gives Lumsdaine’s music its profound beauty.'
review
Posted by Michael Hooper on 15 May, 2009
Peter McCallum's review from the Sydney Morning Herald is available here:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tallpoppies/t2.cgi?tp=cd&val=198