Kirsty McCahon
Kirsty McCahon's double bass anchors chamber scores that range from Elena Kats-Chernin's darkly playful Charleston Noir for four basses to the icy lyricism of Nigel Westlake's Antarctica film music and Andrew Schultz's vocal chamber works.
In Charleston Noir she is one of The Four Basses, driving dance rhythms through high-neck acrobatics and the instrument's deep whoom. The same low voice sits inside Westlake's Antarctic cues, where yearning lyricism meets the force of ice and comic penguin scherzos, and underpins Schultz's chamber songs for Halcyon, music built on word-painting, cross-rhythms and unusual instrumental colour.
Kirsty McCahon appears on
This Moment Must Be Sung: Chamber Songs of Andrew Schultz
A special recording of chamber vocal music by Australian composer Andrew Schultz. Halcyon—Alison Morgan and Jenny Duck-Chong with a fine instrumental ensemble—has championed his writing for one and two voices across two decades.
Chamber of Horrors
Tall Poppies presents chamber music by Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia’s most loved composers, in works written for the musicians who play them here.
Antarctica: The Film Music
Australia's first IMAX film, scored by Nigel Westlake with music that captures the awesome spaces of the ice and the delights of the local fauna. Soloists include David Pereira (cello), Dene Olding (violin), Timothy Kain (guitar) and Christine Douglas (soprano).
