Peter Jenkin
Peter Jenkin puts the clarinet through its modern paces: multiphonics, quarter-tones, glissandi and multi-tracked polyphony, equally at home in Xenakis and Berio, klezmer freylekhs, tango and electronics.
On A Day in the Life of a Clarinet he moves from Vella’s flamboyant Tango, built on improvisation and contemporary techniques, through Xenakis’s Charisma with cello into a multi-tracked Bach ricercar that blends like a pipe organ. Berg’s Four Pieces bring echo tones and flutter-tonguing; a traditional bulgar with accordion turns slippery and bright; Berio’s Sequenza IX stands alone; tape and sampler pieces by Rue, Dean and Wesley-Smith sit beside Sitsky’s Armenian-inflected Vartarun. With AustraLYSIS he anchors chamber programmes that pair Xenakis with Cresswell, Bright and live electronics. He brings the same focus to Edwards’s Binyang with percussion and to Benjamin’s virtuoso Tombeau de Ravel.
Peter Jenkin is featured on the following titles
A Day in the Life of a Clarinet
Peter Jenkin presents the clarinet in its many modern guises, equally at home with Alban Berg, multi-tracked Bach, klezmer, tango, jazz and electronics.
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Peter Jenkin also appears on
Icarus
The Icarus myth has long drawn Andrew Ford, and this disc gathers the works it inspired. The Kowmung Music Festival Players appear alongside Terra Australis, recorded at the Aspen Festival.
Jamaican Rumba, Vol. 2
Pianist Ian Munro's devotion to Arthur Benjamin drives this second volume of chamber music, recorded with colleagues from the Tall Poppies Ensemble. Major and long-neglected works for violin, viola, cello and clarinet finally receive their due.
Raft Song at Sunrise: Chamber Music, Vol. 2
Following the best-selling first volume of Ross Edwards’s chamber music (TP051), this disc gathers some of his most enduring works, recorded here for the first time.
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.
Windows in Time
austraLYSIS is the brainchild of Roger Dean, and exists in several incarnations, including a live electronics band. Here they are in their standard chamber music format and have chosen a programme in which the linchpins are Xenakis and the music of New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell.