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Astra 60

CD

Astra 60 / Michael Kieran Harvey.

  • Published by Move Records — August, 2012 [MD 3357] — 1 CD (57 min.)
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  • Library Availability: CD 2386 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Aardvarks II (1971) Mr. Natural encounters Flakey Foont!, piano solo
Warren Burt Michael Kieran Harvey 5 mins, 16 sec.
Three pieces (1966) — solo piano
Helen Gifford Michael Kieran Harvey 6 mins, 8 sec.
Piano Sonata No. 1 (2006) — solo piano
Tom Henry Michael Kieran Harvey 14 mins, 6 sec.
Sonata No. 1 (1954) — solo piano
Keith Humble Michael Kieran Harvey 3 mins, 49 sec.
Krebs (1983) — solo piano
Mark Pollard Michael Kieran Harvey 6 mins, 37 sec.
Piano sonata no. 3 (2011) — solo piano
Lawrence Whiffin Michael Kieran Harvey 16 mins, 1 sec.

Also includes: Two miniatures / Marguerite Boland.

Product details

This CD captures a concert of Australian piano music given in celebration of Astra's support of Australian music and artists. For 60 years the Astra Chamber Music Society has presented new Australian music and Australian performers within a context of international new music developments, always informed by cultural perspectives. The program notes for the CD are written by John McCaughey, Astra's visionary and inspiring Artistic Director, and describe the connections and influences in this program of piano music especially selected to reflect Astra's unusual ethos and presentation.

The selection of pieces represent each of the decades since the 1950s with an array of six piano works - including a guard of welcome in this century to Lawrence Whiffin's Piano Sonata No.3 in its first performance, composed for Michael Kieran Harvey in 2010, the composer's eightieth year. The seven composers of the program are linked in a web of musical and personal ties, through their multiple contributions to Astra concerts, their relations to the performer, and their connections with Lawrence Whiffin and with the former Music Department at La Trobe University, where he spent a substantial part of his life as teacher.

At the same time, the works show a spectrum of changing times in the wider musical world. The sonata with its discursive tradition is heard in three different guises, as a frame around other approaches to sound and form in the other three pieces -the piano as vehicle for individual or aphoristic utterances, or for more continuous, monolithic energies.

Duration: 57 min.

Liner notes include program notes and biographical note son the performer.


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