TALL POPPIES RECORDS New and classical music by Australian composers and performers

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was an Australian poet and short-story writer whose bush verse has long been sung and set to music. His words catch the hard beauty and melancholy of life inland.

His poems sit among Australian bush songs on The Fair Dinkum Matilda (MD 3175), among them Reedy River, The Bush Girl and Andy’s Gone with Cattle.

A later song cycle, Love, the Rover, sets seven of his poems for voice and guitar on Amatorios (TP241), with images of the bush and the force of inland life running through the songs.

Compositions by Henry Lawson appear on

Front cover art for Amatorios

Amatorios

Soprano Rebecca MacCallion joins Guitar Trek’s Bradley Kunda in a programme for voice and guitar. The pair made their ensemble debut on ABC Classic FM’s Sunday Live and took their work to audiences in Australia, Spain, Montenegro and Italy.

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