Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: ABC Classics
Release: 2019
Size: 1.33 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Hyde: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Minor
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Lento
03. III. Allegro scherzando
Holland: Piano Trio
04. I. Allegro non troppo
05. II. Fast
06. III. Allegro maestoso
Glanville-Hicks: Etruscan Concerto
07. I. Promenade
08. II. Meditation
09. 3. Scherzo
Sutherland: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
10. 1. Allegro
11. 2. Adagio
12. 3. Allegro
13. Boyd: As I crossed a bridge of dreams
14. Kats-Chernin: Russian Rag
Grenfell: Di Primavera
15. I. Lively and steadily
16. II. Rubato, espressivo
17. III. With energy and bounce
18. Whitwell: Road Trip
19. Moore: Fern
20. Murphy: Spinning Top
21. Gifford: Bardju (Footprints) (Arr. by Jessica Wells)
22. Davies: Crystalline
In celebration of International Women’s Day, ABC Classics released Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers – the first in a new series celebrating Australian female composers.
This 2CD mid price compilation is a fascinating journey through the history of Australian composition, highlighting just how much of that history has been written by women.
Australia has always punched above their weight musically, female musicians especially – Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland and Eileen Joyce in particular loom large among the finest musicians of the twentieth century. But beyond these celebrated performers, the history of Australia’s female composers is equally outstanding.
Miriam Hyde, Dulcie Holland and Margaret Sutherland were hugely influential in the early years of Australia’s musical development. Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Anne Boyd looked beyond their borders to the musical traditions of other cultures, and sought to find a place for Australia among the community of musical nations.
Elena Kats-Chernin is a phenomenon unto herself, arguably Australia’s most popular and best known composer. Yuin woman Brenda Gifford brings insights from her Indigenous culture to the Western classical tradition. And composers such as Sally Whitwell, Maria Grenfell, Kate Moore, Nicole Murphy and Olivia Bettina Davies represent the myriad ways in which classical music is developing in the 21st century.