Georges Lentz
Georges Lentz’s music answers the starry Outback sky with brittle austerity, long silences and a shimmering sense of space. His Caeli enarrant cycle turns galaxies and nebulae into fragile string writing, cymbals and prepared piano.
A violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for many years, he writes sparingly from a vast personal cycle shaped by astronomy, the desert and Aboriginal art. Textures move between polyphonic intricacy and bare monody; bars sit on odd rhythmic grids that make the surface twinkle; harmony can turn microtonal, then brush a chorale that feels half-remembered. Later work opens into electronics, improvisation and sound art: the hour-long electric-guitar solo Ingwe, the Blake-haunted orchestral Jerusalem, and the multi-day digital string quartet permanently projected in the Cobar Sound Chapel. It is music of awe and existential quiet, unearthly yet genuinely moving.
Georges Lentz is featured on the following titles
"Caeli enarrant..." IV & V
Georges Lentz, then a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, had already won the Paul Lowin Award for Orchestral Composition for another work in this series. His music draws on astronomy and carries a vast sense of space.
Composer
Georges Lentz also appears on
Carl Vine: Chamber Music, Vol. 2
World premiere recordings of Carl Vine's Second Piano Sonata, played by Michael Kieran Harvey, and Third String Quartet, by the Tall Poppies Quartet (John Harding, Georges Lentz, Esther van Stralen and David Pereira).
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.
