Robert Constable
Robert Constable's piano anchors Australian violin-and-piano repertoire from Sculthorpe, Banks and Sutherland to his own Jewel, while Medea gives violin and cello a chamber drama held back for decades.
With violin he built programmes that treat Australian duo writing as living concert music, not archive filler: works shaped with the composers themselves, from Whiticker and Plush to Wesley-Smith's Beta Globin DNA. Jewel sits among those scores as his own contribution to the set. Medea, left in a bottom drawer for more than thirty years, finally speaks in spare violin-and-cello lines. The through-line is practical and musical: pieces meant to be played, argued over, and heard.
Robert Constable is featured on the following titles
Australian Premières, Vol. 2
This CD proves a concerto can be recorded with a soloist and a digital orchestra, and at the same time brings to light four remarkable works never recorded before, two of them never performed. Patiently languishing in archives, they can now see the light of day.
Other 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.
Horn Trios
A dazzling trio in horn trios by Banks, Berkeley and Brahms. Anyone who caught their Australian performances in 1998 will know how wonderfully these musicians work together.