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CDOrchestral works / Bruce Cale.
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Featured Australian works
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Cello concerto (1988) for cello with orchestra Recorded/performed at: Brisbane, on Oct 90. |
Bruce Cale | David Pereira, Helen Donaldson, Queensland Symphony Orchestra | 24 mins, 33 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Valleys and mountains suite, op. 64 (1987) for full orchestra Recorded/performed at: Hobart, on Sep 89. |
Bruce Cale | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Dobbs Franks | 22 mins, 47 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Violin concerto (1984) — violin with full orchestra Recorded/performed at: Brisbane, on Oct 85. |
Bruce Cale | Leonard Dommett, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas | 19 mins, 14 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
Product details
Tall Poppies is delighted to present this CD of Australian
orchestral works that might very well have slipped from view
forever but for the archives of its composer, Bruce Cale. He has
retained high quality copies of these works since their
performances, and these recordings have been mastered to create
this first release of Cale's excellent compositions.
That they sound so well is also a tribute to the original ABC
engineers.
Bruce Cale is possibly best known in Australia as a brilliant
jazz bassist who has worked with all of Australia's jazz
luminaries. His work with the Bruce Cale Quartet represented one
of the peaks of Australian jazz performance and is remembered in
an archival recording released by Tall Poppies (TP175) last year
to great acclaim. Cale is also a composer with a wide-ranging
oeuvre who studied with George Russell in the US in 1981. Russell
says of Cale:
"Bruce Cale is a marvellously imaginative, compelling musician. I
have followed his work over several decades, and have observed
with pleasure his evolution. Informed by the great nature of his
native Australia, his compositions are lyrical and elegant. His
use of the harmonic palette is uniquely his own, and draws on his
early training as a jazz musician. He is unafraid of beauty; his
work is thrilling in its complexity and scope. If I have had any
affect on Mr. Cale's work, I am humbled. He has become a
distinguished composer of his generation, and I look forward to
his continued contributions."
George Russell May 2006
Duration: 67 min.
Liner notes include programme notes and notes on the composer and performers.
Recording level: DDD.
Related products
Score: Cello concerto, op. 65 / Bruce Cale.
Score: The valleys and mountains suite, op.64 / Bruce Cale.
Score: Violin concerto, op. 43 / Bruce Cale.
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