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Sydney 2000, the Games of the XXVII Olympiad

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Sydney 2000, the Games of the XXVII Olympiad : official music from the Opening Ceremony.

  • 1 CD
  • Sales Availability: This item is out-of-print. We regret that it cannot be purchased from the Australian Music Centre.
  • Library Availability: CD 695 — Available for loan

Out of Print

This item is out-of-print. We regret that it cannot be purchased from the Australian Music Centre.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
FIRE (2000) Composed for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics Michael Askill 2 mins, 42 sec.
Deep sea dreaming (2000) — treble choir with full orchestra — Excerpt
Recorded/performed at: Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, Sydney., on 2000.
Elena Kats-Chernin Sydney Children's Choir, Sydney Symphony, Simone Young 4 mins, 7 sec.
Countdown fanfare for full orchestra Richard Mills 1 mins, 7 sec.
Man from Snowy River (Olympic version) Bruce Rowland 3 mins, 29 sec.
Games 2000 fanfare David Stanhope 37 sec.

Product details

Contents note: The flame / by John Foreman -- Dare to dream / by Paul Begaud, Vanessa Corish & Wayne Tester -- Heroes live forever / by John Gillard & Trevor White -- Under southern skies / by Damien Halloran and Maria Millward -- Countdown fanfare / by Richard Mills -- The man from Snowy River: Olympic version / by Bruce Rowland -- Fanfare / by James Morrison -- Advance Australia fair / by Peter Dodds McCormick -- Deep sea dreaming / by Elena Kats-Chernin -- Awakening / by Djakapurra Munyarryun ... [et al.] -- Fire / by Michael Askill -- Nature / by Chong Lim -- Tin Part 1 / by Ian Cooper & John Frolich -- Tin part 2 / by Paul Grabowsky -- Arrivals (movts I-V) / by Peewee Ferris -- Eternity / by David Hirschfelder -- Games 2000 fanfare / by David Stanhope -- Olympic hymn / by Spiros Samara -- Tibi omnes, from the Te Deum / Berlioz.

Capture session: Mills, Kats-Chernin and Stanhope recorded in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House ; Rowland and Askill recorded at Studio 301, Sydney.

Performers: Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Mills, Rowland, Kats-Chernin, Stanhope) ; Richard Mills (conductor: Mills) ; Bruce Rowland (conductor: Rowland) ; Sydney Children's Choir (Kats-Chernin) ; Simone Young (conductor: Kats-Chernin) ; Michael Askill (percussion: Askill) ; Fire Percussion (Askill) ; David Stanhope (conductor: Stanhope).


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