Composer: Linda Kouvaras
Performer: Justin Kenealy, Coady Green, Linda Barcan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0729
Release: 2024
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
3 St. Kilda Sketches
01. No. 1, Andante
02. No. 2, Dark, Manic, Turbulent
03. No. 3, Animato
Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”
04. No. 1, Shelter in Place
05. No. 2, Isolation
06. No. 3, Reach-Out
07. No. 4, Elegy
08. No. 5, Hope
Art & Life
09. No. 1, Sleeping Girl
10. No. 2, Lullaby for Kyle
11. No. 3, Woman’s Predicament
12. No. 4, Party Lines & Deaf Ears
13. No. 5, Art & Life
14. No. 6, Distant Lullaby
15. Shoalhaven Nightpainters
As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of wide-open spaces, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling Lisztian piano textures and atmospheric echoes of French Impressionism. In this first album of a series presenting all of her instrumental works, chamber music and songs written since 1991, she also addresses two major contemporary issues, with a duo for saxophone and piano exploring the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a song-cycle confronting domestic violence from a woman’s viewpoint.