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Antarctica

CD

Antarctica : new music for toy piano and/or piano / Antonietta Loffredo.

  • Published by Wirripang — 2014 [Wirr 059] — 1 CD (56 min.)
  • Sales Availability: This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.
  • Library Availability: CD 2551 — Available for loan

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This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
The blue ice cave (2013) for piano and toy piano
Recorded/performed at: Performance Space, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW, on Aug 13.
Diana Blom Antonietta Loffredo 5 mins, 53 sec.
Iceberg variations (2012) — solo toy piano
Recorded/performed at: Performance Space, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW, on Aug 13.
Paul Smith Antonietta Loffredo 3 mins, 56 sec.
Heartbroken star in the dream winds of endless night (2013) for toy piano
Recorded/performed at: Performance Space, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood NSW, on Aug 13.
Nathan Wilson Antonietta Loffredo 3 mins, 11 sec.

Also includes: Inside silence / Sara Carvalho -- Impacable ice / Mercedes Zavala -- "A" as Antarctica / Francesco Schweizer -- Percorso A / Stefano Procaccioli -- Erebus / Chris Adams -- Isola di memorie / Paolo Longo -- Antarctica suite / Gian Paolo Luppi -- Icewhite (penguin's steps in the eternity of nothing) / Antonio Giacometti.

Product details

Another exciting University of Western Sydney project of newly composed works inspired by the landscapes and atmospheres of one of the most fascinating continents on the planet. Antarctica is considered an inhospitable continent but it has fascinated and inspired not only travellers, scientists, researchers but musicians and writers. This program of eleven composers from five countries draws on the sounds of the piano, and the clear, distinctive sound of two toy pianos, into their works. This music been performed by Antonietta in Australia and Italy.

Duration: 56 min.

Includes programme notes and biographical notes on performer and composers.


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