Michael Smetanin
Michael Smetanin's music hits hard and thinks sideways: Stroke is a driving, percussive piano assault that also knows how to caress, while Finger Funk asks two players to work a marimba with bare fingers for eight relentless minutes.
Compositions by Michael Smetanin appear on
Bright Vessel
Tall Poppies is proud to release Bright Vessel, an important collection of Australian works for solo oboe and oboe d’amore, gathered and performed by Stephen Robinson.
Water Settings: Australian Music for Percussion Duo
Match is a new Australian percussion duo featuring two of the country’s finest players: Daryl Pratt, Head of Percussion at the Sydney Conservatorium and a prolific composer, and Alison Eddington of Synergy Percussion. Most of the programme is by Pratt.
Stroke
A striking programme of contemporary Australian piano music, superbly played by New York–based Australian pianist Lisa Moore. Smetanin's formidable title work, among the most demanding in the repertoire, was captured here in a single take.