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Ghosts, fools and seers

CD

Ghosts, fools and seers / Katja Webb, David Wickham, Aaron Wyatt, Michael Waye.

  • Published by Stone Records — 2017 [5060192780703] — 1 CD (80 min.)
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
    Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.
  • Library Availability: CD 2846 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
On Betelgeuse (2010) — unspecified voice with viola
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Geoffrey Allen Katja Webb, Aaron Wyatt 4 mins, 17 sec.
On the inland sea (2010) for voice and viola
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Geoffrey Allen Katja Webb, Aaron Wyatt 3 mins, 30 sec.
Shakespeare settings for voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Dorian Le Gallienne Katja Webb, David Wickham 8 mins, 7 sec.
Three songs for voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Dorian Le Gallienne Katja Webb, David Wickham 6 mins, 25 sec.
Four songs for soprano (1973) for soprano voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Richard Peter Maddox Katja Webb, David Wickham 13 mins, 51 sec.
Crazy Jane (1969) for soprano voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Paul Paviour Katja Webb, David Wickham 17 mins, 14 sec.
Pastorals — unspecified voice with flute
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
James Penberthy Katja Webb, Michael Waye 17 mins, 28 sec.
Seven Zen songs (2005) for voice and viola
Recorded/performed at: Music Auditorium, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth
Larry Sitsky Katja Webb, Aaron Wyatt 7 mins, 9 sec.

Product details

Ghosts, Fools and Seers is a collection of Australian art songs performed by Katja Webb and David Wickham. Good songs need good characters; here are a gallery of strange, visionary people from fine poems given voices in exciting, bold music. Australian composers Dorian Le Gallienne, Larry Sitsky, Richard Peter Maddox, Geoffrey Allen and James Penberthy each have their own vivid styles and are becoming more widely known. Australian poets are well-represented - Mary Gilmore, Bruce Dawe and Gwen Harwood stand alongside Shakespeare, Yeats and Japanese and Persian writers in this eclectic, compelling recital. Highlights are Maddox's chilling evocation of a girl's premonition of death, Paviour's proud, passionate vagrant woman "Crazy Jane", Le Gallienne's setting of Shakespeare's adoring "How oft, when thou, my music", and Penberthy's muscular response to the harsh beauty of the Australian landscape. Rising talent Katja Webb has sung principal roles in Vienna, Germany and Australia. David Wickham continues his exploration of treasures of Australian songs in this fourth disc for Stone Records

Duration: 80 min.


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