CDPsychosonata / Michael Kieran Harvey.
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Featured Australian works
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City of snakes (2013) for B flat clarinet, piano, bass, and drums Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey, Eugene Ughetti, Ashley William Smith | 5 mins, 15 sec. |
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Etude for trumpet in C and piano (2011) for trumpet with piano Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne, on 20 Aug 13. |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Tristram Williams, Michael Kieran Harvey | 6 mins, 14 sec. |
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Fear (2011) for violin and piano Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey, Natsuko Yoshimoto | 10 mins, 31 sec. |
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Homage to Liszt (2011) for the 200th birthday of Liszt Ferenc Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey, Arjun Von Caemmerer | 6 mins, 19 sec. |
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Kursk (2007) for cello and piano Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey, Saxby Pridmore | 8 mins, 19 sec. |
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Makzurka (2011) for Stephen McIntyre's 70th Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey | 3 mins, 2 sec. |
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Psychosonata (2012) Piano sonata No. 2 Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne |
Michael Kieran Harvey | Michael Kieran Harvey | 27 mins, 41 sec. |
Product details
A collection of Michael Kieran Harvey's compositions from 2007-2013 ranging in mood from the relatively serious to cheerful pastiche. Harvey is joined by the very brightest young instrumentalists Australia has to offer.
The CD includes various short works for piano and cello, piano and violin, piano and percussion, piano and trumpet and piano and bass clarinet.
The longest work is "Psychosonata" about which Michael Kieran Harvey wrote:
"I was always fascinated with the work of Francis Bacon, and my
musical choices and interpretations gravitated to works that had
a similar primeval anarchy, but within a highly rigorous
discipline. The cover art of Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho
I found very compelling as an allegory of the respectably dressed
Ayn Rand corporate monster. In this sonata I had also in mind
something of the dark thickly-layered use of colour of Frank
Auerbach, especially his paintings of heads, where he tries to
depict psychological intensity with a veritable catatonia of
lines and colour. The structure, the head, is the sonata form -
in three distinct sections - but the storm engulfing it is a
restless sequence of numbers, occasionally shot through with
scarifying lightning and abrupt silences.
There is no narrative. The entire work is constructed on the
bijective numeration system, that is, all nine Hindu-Arabic
numerals without the concept of zero. There is an obsessive
exploration of these numerals which constrains and controls the
musical terrain in an artificial and additive fashion - almost
robotic - rather like what I understand to be the unsympathetic
thought processes of the psychopath, or the seemingly disordered
thought of the psychotic."
Duration: 69 min.
Booklet includes program notes and biographical notes on composer and performers.
Related products
Score & Part: Kursk : for cello and piano / Michael Kieran Harvey.
Score & Part: Fear : for violin and piano / Michael Kieran Harvey.
Score: Makzurka / Michael Kieran Harvey.
Score: Psychosonata : for piano / Michael Kieran Harvey.
Score & Part: Etude for trumpet in C and piano / Michael Kieran Harvey.
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