Australian Youth Orchestra
The Australian Youth Orchestra brings disciplined, exuberant force to Australian orchestral writing, from Christmas carols reimagined by living composers to concertos and dance scores that sit at the heart of the national repertoire.
On Christmas under Capricorn they treat nineteen carols arranged by Australian composers as proper repertoire: Vine, Sculthorpe, Edwards, Butterley, Schultz and others, played with style, fine solo colour and real conviction under Graham Abbott. Elsewhere they give committed, high-energy accounts of Carl Vine’s Oboe Concerto, Peter Sculthorpe’s stark Piano Concerto and David Lumsdaine’s large-scale cello concerto A Garden of Earthly Delights, and they drive the powerful orchestral landscapes of Barry Conyngham’s Vast. The sound is clean, athletic and fully engaged: a training orchestra that plays as if the music already belongs to them.
Australian Youth Orchestra is featured on the following titles
A Garden of Earthly Delights
Three Australian concertos in exuberant performances by the Australian Youth Orchestra, conductor Diego Masson, and soloists David Nuttall, Ian Munro and David Pereira.
Christmas under Capricorn
The Australian Youth Orchestra, conducted by Graham Abbott, plays nineteen Christmas carols arranged for orchestra by Australian composers. Two carols appear in paired settings, inviting comparison. Listenable festive music, easy to give as a gift.
Australian Youth Orchestra also appears on
Graeme Murphy's Body of Work: A Retrospective
For 25 years the Sydney Dance Company under Graeme Murphy dominated Australian dance. Murphy made it a mission to commission new Australian scores; this disc gathers some of the most successful, issued to mark a national tour celebrating his work.
An Australian Collection
Nineteen tracks drawn from the Tall Poppies catalogue, chosen to show the range and depth of Australian composition and performance across the label’s first decade.