CDNew Music for Multiple Keyboards : piano, toy piano, harpsichord, MIDI piano / works by Diana Blom, Michael Hannan, Andrián Pertout, Paul Smith and Felicity Martin.
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Featured Australian works
Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
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After the rain (2010) for four pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Diana Blom, Paul Smith, Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes | 8 mins, 43 sec. | |
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Braided river (2017) for electronics | Diana Blom | 15 mins, 3 sec. | |
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Calder's surprise (2015) — duos: 2 toy pianos — Take 1 Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Diana Blom, Michael Hannan | 2 mins, 17 sec. |
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Calder's surprise (2015) — duos: 2 toy pianos — Take 2 Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Diana Blom, Michael Hannan | 2 mins, 17 sec. |
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Drawing firewheels (2016) for piano and toy piano (one player) Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Antonietta Loffredo | 6 mins, 47 sec. |
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Freefall (2016) for two pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo | 4 mins, 4 sec. |
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The Green man dances (2006) piano duet Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes | 2 mins, 24 sec. |
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River circles (1997) for electroacoustic — Shorter version |
Diana Blom | 10 mins, 55 sec. | |
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Two Chinese folk songs (1988) for piano duet — Fisherman's Joy Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes | 2 mins, 30 sec. |
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Two Chinese folk songs (1988) for piano duet — Little Cabbage Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Diana Blom | Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes | 2 mins, 53 sec. |
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Cloudcatcher I (2016) for two pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Michael Hannan | Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo | 13 mins, 40 sec. |
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Impromobile (2016) piano for four hands — Take 1 Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Michael Hannan | Michael Hannan, Diana Blom | 3 mins, 30 sec. |
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Impromobile (2016) piano for four hands — Take 2 Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Michael Hannan | Michael Hannan, Diana Blom | 15 mins, 3 sec. |
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Landscape/soundscape I (2017) — duos: 2 pianos | Michael Hannan | Michael Hannan, Diana Blom | 11 mins, 25 sec. |
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Landscape/soundscape II (2017) — site specific live performance | Michael Hannan | 12 mins, 24 sec. | |
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Riff madness III (2016) for two toy grand pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Michael Hannan | Michael Hannan, Antonietta Loffredo | 6 mins, 24 sec. |
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Musica battuta (2016) double toy piano étude for one soloist Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Andrián Pertout | Antonietta Loffredo | 6 mins, 14 sec. |
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Clutter (2016) for two pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Paul Smith | Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo | 7 mins, 9 sec. |
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Holding Masks (2016) — duos: 2 pianos Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University |
Paul Smith | Paul Smith, Antonietta Loffredo | 8 mins, 4 sec. |
Also includes: Sunshower / Felicity Martin.
Product details
Diana Blom and Michael Hannan, the curators and producers of this
double CD of new music for multiple keyboards, were students
together at the Department of Music of the University of Sydney
in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both were also studying
harpsichord with Dorothy White in this period.
When she was on the staff of ABC music in the mid-1970s, Diana
Blom produced recordings of Michael Hannan playing Peter
Sculthorpe's Koto Musics and Landscape, works that
involve multitracking of extended technique piano parts. These
recordings were subsequently released on a Move Records LP and
later re-released on several Move Records CDs. In 2006 Diana and
Michael presented concerts of a dozen or so of their solo piano
works in both Sydney where Diana lives, and in Nimbin where
Michael lives. The concerts included performances by them of
Diana's The Green Man Dances for piano duet. This piece
was included on the Multiple Keyboards project but played, on
this occasion, by Jennifer MacRitchie and Pablo Puentes.
Since that piano performance project, Michael and Diana have
collaborated on several composition repertoire-creation projects,
notably the Shadows and Silhouettes performance at the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2010. This project, initially
involving Australian composers writing piano pieces influenced by
Chinese culture, was eventually taken up by Italian pianist,
Antonietta Loffredo, resulting in the Shadows and
Silhouettes CD (Wirripang, Wirr 047, 2012) which includes
Chinese culture-inspired works from Australia, Italy, Singapore
and Malaysia.
The idea of the "Multiple Keyboards" project sprang from these
earlier experiences. In discussion, Diana and Michael felt they
would like to create an album of new works that fitted the
general principle of two or more keyboardists playing on one or
more keyboard instruments. The instrumentation is dominated by
pianos and toy pianos (and combinations thereof), but there is
one work for multi-tracked harpsichords and another for
multi-tracked MIDI electric pianos.
Duration: 135 min.
Liner notes include program notes and biographical notes abut the composers and performers.
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