Notations

Stephanie McCallum

Stephanie McCallum brings formidable technique and real character to Alkan’s transcendental études and to the sharp edges of Boulez, Xenakis and Australian new music. Thunderous drama sits beside poised colour and clarity.

Nigel Butterley

Nigel Butterley (1935–2022) was an Australian composer and pianist. His catalogue ranges from radiophonic and choral scores to chamber, vocal and orchestral works, and as a pianist he was closely identified with contemporary music and the prepared piano.

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.

Margaret Sutherland

Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984) was an Australian composer whose work ranged across almost every form, with a particular gift for chamber music. She remains one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Australian composition.

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez’s music is tightly argued and often brief, yet full of sudden colour, rhythmic snap and hard-edged attack. His Douze Notations for piano pack twelve distinct characters into a few concentrated minutes.

Chris Dench

Chris Dench is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. His two-movement piano work Two Phase Portraits pairs Helical (1976) with Esperance (1985/86).

Moya Henderson

Moya Henderson's music is warm, sincere and distinctively Australian: chamber works such as G'Day Africa and Cross Hatching, art songs and carols, and scores that remember Gallipoli and the land with directness.

Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis writes music of fierce architecture and physical force: piano works that demand absolute mastery, chamber pieces that scrape and glissando into eerie space, and percussion grooves that build from simple cells into relentless drive.

Liner Notes [Annotations]

Peter McCallum