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.
David Stanhope piano
Ryszard Pusz percussion
Dimity Hall violin
Julian Smiles cello
David Morgan is an Adelaide-based composer who never thought he’d hear his percussion concerto. Andrew Ford wrote his piano concerto 30 years ago and has been seriously patient in the meantime. Robert Constable’s Medea has occupied a bottom drawer for over 30 years. And Eric Bryce will never hear his Concerto, but we all can.
Look what happens when you rummage in the archives. Come and have a rummage with David Stanhope and his marvellous Digital Orchestra, shining a light into some forgotten corners of the musical universe.
Get to know some forgotten Aussie masterpieces.
Artists
David Stanhope and his Orchestra
David Stanhope and his Orchestra is the digital orchestra the Australian composer and conductor uses to realise full orchestral scores in the studio. It brings unperformed concertos and neglected virtuoso piano works into recorded form.
David Morgan
David Morgan is an Adelaide-based composer. His orchestral works include Symphony No. 13 and a concerto for solo percussion and orchestra, scores that had gone unheard until digital performances brought them into the catalogue.
David Stanhope
David Stanhope is an Australian conductor, composer and pianist whose career also takes in horn and bass trombone. He has led opera, ballet, film scores and orchestras across Australia, and is widely known for his wind-band and brass writing.
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford is an Australian composer, writer and broadcaster whose work ranges from chamber and vocal scores to opera and piano cycles. He has won the Paul Lowin Prize for the song cycle Learning to Howl and a Green Room Award for the opera Rembrandt’s Wife.
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.
Tracks
David Morgan — Concerto (opus 77) for Solo Percussion and Orchestra
Ryszard Pusz: percussion
Andrew Ford — Imaginings
David Stanhope: piano
Robert Constable — Medea
Dimity Hall: violin • Julian Smiles: cello
Eric Bryce — Concerto for Marimba/Vibraphone
Ryszard Pusz: percussion
Performers
- David Stanhope and his Orchestra · digital orchestra
- David Stanhope · piano
- Ryszard Pusz · percussion
- Dimity Hall · violin
- Julian Smiles · cello
Where to listen
Australian Premières, Vol. 2 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
- TP264
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Category
- Australian Classics
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, Orchestral & Concerto
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