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CDGardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams / Penelope Thwaites.
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Featured Australian works
| Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Lambeth Garland (1987) for SATB voices and one piano, four hands |
Penelope Thwaites | 10 mins, 2 sec. | ||
| Jan Palach's Theme for chamber ensemble |
Penelope Thwaites | 2 mins, 45 sec. | ||
| Vijay's fable (1994) for piano trio |
Penelope Thwaites | 4 mins, 16 sec. | ||
| For Irina for string quartet | Penelope Thwaites | 7 mins, 47 sec. | ||
| To The Hills (2023) — string music | Penelope Thwaites | 3 mins, 17 sec. | ||
| The Selfish Giant — duos: 2 pianos | Penelope Thwaites | 18 mins, 34 sec. | ||
| Mazurka : au Tombeau de Chopin (2020) for violin, cello and piano | Penelope Thwaites | 6 mins, 5 sec. | ||
| To The Hills (2018) for string quintet | Penelope Thwaites | 3 mins, 20 sec. |
Also includes: In a Summer Garden.
Product details
SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the release of Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams, eight first recordings of music by Penelope Thwaites paying homage to "the heroes, the witty wordsmiths, the dancers, the poets and the visionaries; and two great composers" who have influenced her musical life.
Thwaites is joined by fellow pianist Benjamin Frith for the exuberant six-part A Lambeth Garland, the enchanting eight-part retelling of Oscar Wilde's fable The Selfish Giant and Thwaites' arrangement of Delius's In a Summer Garden, the first to be made for two pianos.
She is heard with John Mills (violin) and Bozidar Vukotic (cello) on Vijay's Fable, drawn from her culture-fusing score for Indian choreographer Vijaylakshmi Subramaniam, and the atmospheric Mazurka: au Tombeau de Chopin.
The Tippett Quartet contribute three memorable performances: Jan Palach's Theme, recalling the self-immolating student protestor against the Soviet Union's 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; For Irina, a tribute to dissident Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya who survived imprisonment but died of cancer in 2017; and with double bassist Laurence Ungless for To the Hills, a string quintet version of Thwaites' earlier choral setting of Psalm 121.
Duration: 66 min.
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