Bushfire Dreams
Four marvellous works by Melbourne composers appear here in superb performances by the Ormond Quartet, resident at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music between 2016 and 2018. Lotte Betts-Dean joins them for Katy Abbott’s work.
If you doubted that the string quartet is alive and well in Australia, this CD should reassure you. Listening to this fascinating music you’ll be wondering why it is not more often heard, and not more often recorded.
Artists
Barry Conyngham
Barry Conyngham, born in Sydney, has received numerous awards and fellowships for composition, among them Churchill, Harkness, Australia Council and Senior Fulbright grants. He holds an ARIA, two Sounds Australian Critics Awards and two Maggs Awards.
Stuart Greenbaum
Stuart Greenbaum’s sound has overt connections to jazz, pop and minimalism, yet is equally grounded in the Western art music tradition, across a large body of orchestral, chamber, choral and stage works.
Elliott Gyger
Elliott Gyger was born in Sydney, and has been writing music since about the age of ten. His compositional and research interests include the creation of a purely musical sense of drama and narrative, and the multilayered interplay of music and text.
Katy Abbott
Katy Abbott’s music is refreshingly genuine. She is part of a new wave of composers who emerged after the style wars that dominated Australian music in the nineties, and her work has no hint of either forced intellectualism or fluffy popularism.
Tracks
Barry Conyngham — String Quartet No. 3 – Bushfire Dreams
Stuart Greenbaum — String Quartet No. 7 – Recognition
Elliott Gyger — Soli
Katy Abbott — It Is Just The Heart
Performers
- The Ormond String Quartet · ensemble
- Lotte Betts-Dean · mezzo soprano
Where to listen
Bushfire Dreams 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
- TP263
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Genre
- Contemporary Classical
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