CDWomen of Note : A Century of Australian Composers, Volume 2.
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Featured Australian works
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Punch (2013) fanfare for brass ensemble Recorded/performed at: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne VIC, on 14 Dec 14. Performers: Geoff Payne, Shane Hooten, Joel Walmsley, Saul Lewis, Jenna Breen, Alden Cai, Melissa Shirley, Jessica Buzbee, David Farrell, Mike Szabo, Tim Buzbee, Robert Cossom, Brett Kelly. |
Katy Abbott | 2 mins, 22 sec. | |
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Dancing on Tiptoes (2017) but never falling Recorded/performed at: Trackdown Studios, Sydney, on 2018. |
Rachel Bruerville | ACO Collective | 3 mins, 8 sec. |
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Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace — multiple choirs with full orchestra — IV. Kooyeen-wanoong (Liber scriptus), V. Tyookooyong-ee (Agnus Dei) |
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Consort of Melbourne, Dhungala Children's Choir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Don Bemrose, Linda Barcan, Benjamin Northey | 6 mins, 8 sec. |
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Glocken blocken for percussion | Amanda Cole | Claire Edwardes | 4 mins, 53 sec. |
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Lake Ice (2013) (Missed Tales No.1) Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall Angel Place, NSW, on 29 Aug 13. |
Mary Finsterer | Kees Boersma, Sydney Symphony, Jessica Cottis | 22 mins, 2 sec. |
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Kudikynah cave (1987) for string quartet Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on 2013. |
Moya Henderson | Acacia Quartet | 6 mins, 19 sec. |
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Sonata : for violin and piano (1937) for violin with piano Recorded/performed at: Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, on Aug 01. |
Dulcie Holland | Asmira Woodward-Page, Scott Davie | 14 mins, 53 sec. |
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Village fair (1943) a ballet for orchestra |
Miriam Hyde | Miriam Hyde, Sydney Symphony, Dobbs Franks | 11 mins, 18 sec. |
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Wild swans suite (2004) — soprano with full orchestra — Eliza Aria only Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart TAS, on Aug 04. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Jane Sheldon, Ola Rudner | 3 mins, 22 sec. |
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The Space Between Stars for orchestra Recorded/performed at: Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, NSW, on 8 May 19. |
Ella Macens | Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Cottis | 13 mins, 21 sec. |
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We won't let you down (2018) for string orchestra | Natalie Nicolas | ACO Collective | 4 mins, 17 sec. |
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Exaltation chassidic air and dance, for oboe, violin, cello and piano Recorded/performed at: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne VIC, on 6 Jun 99. |
Linda Phillips | Anne Gilby, Isin Cakmakcioglu, Rachel Atkinson, Robert Chamberlain | 13 mins, 35 sec. |
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Wilga’s Last Dance : Last melody of the area (2019) for saxophone quartet Recorded/performed at: Studio 200, ABC’s Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on 5 Dec 19. Performed by members of the Royal Australian Navy Band |
Nardi Simpson | Royal Australian Navy Band | 3 mins, 36 sec. |
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Haunted hills (1950) symphonic poem | Margaret Sutherland | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins | 15 mins, 24 sec. |
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The Quickening (2004) A tribute to Jonathan Kramer; for flute and piano. Recorded/performed at: Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Dec 14. |
Katia Tiutiunnik | Laura Chislett, Stephanie McCallum | 6 mins, 2 sec. |
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Time and Tide : Echoes of Sydney Harbour (2018) for brass trio, percussion and fixed media Recorded/performed at: Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney, on 24 Sep 18. |
Miriama Young | Sydney Symphony Fellows | 10 mins, 19 sec. |
Product details
Building on the success of their first Women of Note album in 2019, ABC Classic is thrilled to be releasing the second volume in their now annual celebration of Australia's female composers.
This 2 CD album, released in time for International Women's Day (8 March), begins with music from pioneers of Australia's musical heritage: Margaret Sutherland, Miriam Hyde, Dulcie Holland, and introducing Linda Phillips, whose work as a critic and as chief adjudicator of the prestigious Sun Aria competition across three decades helped to shape this country's musical landscape, but whose compositions - prized by such artists as Dame Joan Sutherland - have been unjustly neglected in Australia's recorded music catalogue. Her quartet Exaltation, a swirling mixture of melancholy and exuberance, shows the composer exploring the musical legacy of her family's Jewish background.
Five other world premiere recordings feature on the album. Multiple award-winning composer Mary Finsterer is represented by a live concert recording of her double bass concerto Lake Ice, an exploration of music as storytelling and as journey, guided by the beautiful yet rarely heard sonorities of the bass as solo instrument. From Miriama Young we have a re-imagination of the historical soundworld of Sydney Harbour in Time and Tide, blending field recordings ancient and modern with brass and percussion instruments. We are also delighted to be presenting the first commercial recording of music by rising star Ella Macens: her soaring orchestral work The Space Between Stars.
The other two world premiere recordings are by Indigenous Australian composers. From Yorta Yorta woman, opera singer, composer and educator Deborah Cheetham comes Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace: a powerful and poignant response to the resistance war fought by the Gunditjmara people in southwest Victoria and to the troubled spirits of all who fell in those battles, on both sides. And Yuwaalaraay composer Nardi Simpson gives us Wilga's Last Dance, honouring the only traditional melody from her people that was ever recorded.
Moya Henderson takes us to the Tasmanian wilderness with her
transcendent string quartet Kudikynah Cave, evoking
moments of ecstatic stillness during the raft journey to the
cave's entrance, along the Franklin River. Katia Tiutiunnik draws
inspiration from the moment a mother first feels her baby move
inside her womb for her flute and piano duet The
Quickening. Katy Abbott, always alert to the quirks and
foibles of human existence, applies wit and humour to the
multiple meanings of the word Punch in a work for brass ensemble.
Amanda Cole marries marimba and cowbells in her energetic
percussion solo Glocken Blocken. Rachel Bruerville (Dancing
on Tiptoes) and Natalie Nicolas (We Won't Let You
Down) worked with teenagers in hospital mental health wards
to create music of joy and profound optimism. And Elena
Kats-Chernin's beloved Eliza Aria is presented in its
original version for quizzical soprano solo over delicately
plucked strings.
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Duration: 139 min.
Liner notes include program notes and biographical notes on the composers.
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Score: Village Fair : a ballet for orchestra / by Miriam Hyde.
Score: Haunted hills : symphonic poem / M. Sutherland
Score & Part: Sonata : for violin and piano / Dulcie Holland.
Score: Kudikynah Cave : string quartet / by Moya Henderson.
Score & Part: Wild swans suite : for violin and piano / Elena Kats-Chernin.
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