Ken Martin
Ken Martin is a photographer whose cover and artist photographs appear on Tall Poppies recordings from the 1990s.
Credits
Bach: The Cello Suites, BWV 1007–12
David Pereira gives a personal view of Bach’s six solo cello suites, works that remain the cornerstone of the cellist’s repertoire. He is only the second Australian to have recorded the complete set.
Romancing the Oboe
Oboist David Nuttall and guitarist Timothy Kain turn romantic miniatures into a warm chamber programme. Familiar favourites sit beside Brazilian sambas and Nielsen’s incidental music.
Cello Rhapsody
Pereira's main strength is his passion, heard here in repertoire that ranges from the simplicity of songs to the dramatic nuance of the Hispanic rhapsodies.
Clare Maclean: Complete Choral Music
Maclean began her choral life as a singer in this choir, and her writing shows an intimate grasp of its style. The result is gorgeous listening: music inspired by the spiritual, and a distinctive voice amid the noise of contemporary composition.
Wattamolla Red
By the mid-1990s Wesley-Smith had been composing electronic music for more than twenty-five years. The work stays accessible and human; anyone who thought electronics belonged only to specialists will find that view overturned here.
Spinning: New Australian Flute Music
Geoffrey Collins has single-handedly shaped the Australian flute repertoire, and this is his third solo recording. Five of these works were written for him, and they show how freely composers respond to his playing.
On Our Way: Haza is Kéne Már Menni
If you like Hungarian and Romanian folk music and dance, this is your CD. The Transylvaniacs play traditional Hungarian music from Transylvania, with Romanian and Gypsy tunes among the twelve tracks. Violin, cimbalom, viola, double bass and voice lead the ensemble’s own arrangements.
Night People
An unusual disc and a claimed world-first: an entire album for solo five-string electric bass. Steve Hunter’s instrument gives him wide creative range, and this is a true solo recording, with some pieces multi-tracked.
Horn Concertos
Hector McDonald, then Solo Principal Horn of the Vienna Symphony, joins the Academy of Melbourne under Brett Kelly in a programme of horn concertos by Haydn, Förster, Telemann and Teyber.