Richard Miller
Richard Miller’s percussion colours Nigel Westlake’s Antarctica film score, from ice-force tuttis to the comic slap of Penguin Circus, and rings the four cymbals that map galaxies in Georges Lentz’s Caeli enarrant… IV.
On Westlake he helps the orchestra give the music a life away from the IMAX screen: yearning lyricism, wooden ships, tender threnody and the sudden fun of the penguin cues. With Synergy he joins the percussion quartet for Edwards, Westlake’s Malachite Glass with bass clarinet, Sculthorpe, Cage’s First Construction and Dave Samuels’s vibraphone-led pieces, music that cooks rather than decorates. In Lentz the cymbals sit inside the string quartet’s star maps, marking Pleiades, nebulae and Andromeda with an awesome sense of space.
Richard Miller appears on
"Caeli enarrant..." IV & V
Georges Lentz, then a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, had already won the Paul Lowin Award for Orchestral Composition for another work in this series. His music draws on astronomy and carries a vast sense of space.
Synergy With Samuels
This CD grew from a concert collaboration between Australia’s best-known percussion quartet and America’s finest vibraphonist, Dave Samuels. Together they cook up a storm.
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).
