Australian Cello
Sydney-based Danish cellist Georg Pedersen’s first solo disc centres on three major Australian works for solo cello by Banks, Kos and Whitehead. The Kos and Whitehead pieces were written especially for him.
Pianist David Bollard joins Pedersen for Don Banks’s Three Studies and Keith Humble’s Five Short Pieces.
The programme also includes Banks’s Sequence for Solo Cello, Božidar Kos’s Evocations, and Gillian Whitehead’s The Journey of Matuku Moana, written for Pedersen.
Artists
Georg Pedersen
Georg Pedersen is a cellist whose Tall Poppies recordings range from Mozart’s complete piano trios, taped in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, to contemporary chamber works.
David Bollard
David Bollard is a New Zealand-born classical pianist who has made his career in Australia as a performer, teacher and adjudicator. He was a founding member of the Australia Ensemble from 1980 until 1998.
Tracks
- i. Andante 2:33
- ii. Lento espressivo 2:37
- iii. Allegro 2:06
- Pt. I 5:40
- Pt. II 5:39
- Coda 3:11
- Pt. I 2:11
- Pt. II 4:46
- Evocations Božidar Kos 21:49
- The Journey of Matuku Moana Gillian Whitehead 20:56
Three Studies for Violoncello and Piano Don Banks
Sequence for Solo Cello Don Banks
Five Short Pieces in Two Parts Keith Humble
Performers
- Georg Pedersen · cello
- David Bollard · piano · tracks 1–3, 7 and 8
Composers
Don Banks
Don Banks (1923–1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz and commercial music. Serial craft, electronics and a lifelong pull toward jazz shaped chamber works, concertos and scores central to mid-century Australian modernism.
Keith Humble
Keith Humble won the National Critics Award in 1977 as the most outstanding recitalist working in Australia, and was appointed AM in 1982 for services to music. He was a constant champion of Australian contemporary music and of Percy Grainger.
Božidar Kos
Božidar Kos is an Australian composer. His recorded works include a Piano Sonata and the substantial cello piece Evocations.
Gillian Whitehead
Gillian Whitehead writes chamber, vocal and orchestral music that can feel like weather over land and water: atmospheric, dreamy, and rooted in the sounds and seasonal cycles of Aotearoa. Manutaki and The Journey of Matuku Moana show how fully she can hold a landscape in instrumental colour.
Contributors
Piano Tuner
David Kinney
David Kinney is the piano technician whose preparation underpins a wide stretch of Tall Poppies piano sound, from late Beethoven and Debussy to Janáček, Schubert and contemporary Australian repertoire. The instrument arrives ready for the music’s full colour and weight.
Liner Notes
Graham Hair
Born in Geelong, composer Graham Hair has received numerous commissions from such organisations as Duo Contemporain and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1990 he took up the position of Gardiner Professor at the University of Glasgow.
Cover Art
Pat Cale
Cover Photography
Richard Hersey
Where to listen
Australian Cello is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Australian Cello is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP129
- Total playing time
- 71 minutes 28 seconds
- Venue
- ABC Studios, Sydney
- Credit
- David Kinney
Graham Hair
Pat Cale
Richard Hersey - Release date
- 7 Nov 1998
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © 1998 Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1998 Tall Poppies Records
- Category
- Australian Classics
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, Modernist Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9399001112920
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