CD: Celebrating twenty years / Melbourne Composers' League. [2017] : Product : Australian Music Centre

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Celebrating twenty years / Melbourne Composers' League.

Published by Melbourne Composers' League — 2017 — 3 CDs
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Featured Australian works

Work	Composer	Performers	Duration
Earth tones (2014) for toy piano Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney Recording Studio, Sydney, on Dec 16.	Diana Blom	Antonietta Loffredo	5 mins, 24 sec.
My feet want to dance but my eyes want to sleep — septets: flute, clarinet, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello Recorded/performed at: Oaklands Studio, Melbourne, on Dec 12.	Brenton Broadstock	Syzygy Ensemble	11 mins, 20 sec.
Gentleness-suddenness (2012) for mezzo-soprano, violin, percussion and piano — Spirit Recorded/performed at: Performance Space, Western Sydney University, Sydney, on 27 Jun 13.	Bruce Crossman	Lotte Latukefu, James Cuddeford, Claire Edwardes, Michael Kieran Harvey	10 mins, 26 sec.
The Arc of the Day (2007) for piano quintet Recorded/performed at: Move Studios, Melbourne, on 2008.	Eve Christina Duncan	Silo String Quartet, Danae Killian	4 mins, 11 sec.
Meditation on Satie (2001) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: Australian Institute of Music, Sydney, on 23 May 16.	Houston Dunleavy	Dewi Liu	3 mins, 52 sec.
Moments pour piano (1984) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: 'Two New Hours' program, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Canada, on 27 Jan 85.	Peter Graham	Angela Hewitt	9 mins, 8 sec.
Sighting Silence, Sounding Image : a suite of pieces accompanying visual art works by Flossie Peitsch (2013) — solo piano — I, II, V, VI Recorded/performed at: Hughie's Hideout, Melbourne, on 2016.	Christina Green	Christina Green	8 mins, 1 sec.
Kyrie : for piano, vibraphone and percussion (2015) for piano and percussion duo Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University Recording Studio, Sydney, on 27 Nov 15.	Clare Maclean	Bernadette Harvey, Claire Edwardes	9 mins, 3 sec.
The Beauty of Now (2016) for violin with piano Recorded/performed at: Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, Melbournre, on 16 Apr 16.	Caerwen Martin	Aaron Barnden, Peter Doomsday	9 mins, 52 sec.
Returning (2012) for electronics Recorded/performed at: Studio Silonics, Melbourne, on Jan 12.	Gary McKie		3 mins, 8 sec.
Binary system (2016) for flute duet Recorded/performed at: Andrián Pertout Studio, Melbourne, on 18 Mar 17.	Paul Moulatlet	Johanna Selleck, Peter Sheridan	6 mins, 27 sec.
Entasis (2002) for solo trumpet Recorded/performed at: Sheila Street Studio, Northern College of the Arts & Technology, Melbourne, on 20 Apr 16.	Peter Myers	Tristram Williams	12 mins, 53 sec.
The elements (2009) for violin Recorded/performed at: Giuseppe Curci Studio, Barletta, Italy, on Jan 15.	Andrián Pertout	Carmine Marcello Rizzi	6 mins, 5 sec.
Interplay (2003) for guitar and electronics Recorded/performed at: University of Melbourne, on 2003.	Haydn Reeder	Geoffrey Morris, David Collins	13 mins, 52 sec.
Spindrift (2008) for solo harp Recorded/performed at: Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Auditorium, Monash University, Melbourne, on 15 Dec 15.	Johanna Selleck	Jacinta Dennett	7 mins, 19 sec.
Music for solo flutes (2008) for flute solo Recorded/performed at: Move Records studio, Melbourne, on 11 Nov 16.	Peter Tahourdin	Johanna Selleck	6 mins, 10 sec.

Also includes: Out-Takes (amplified string quartet and tape) / Antonio Tenace -- Rhapsody (solo viola) / Stephen Lebsanfte -- Snake Belly Medicine Music (bass flute and double bass) / Colin McKellar -- Rainforest (soprano and piano) / Natalya Vagner -- Six Short Pieces (flute and piano) / David Henderson -- Elegy (for tape) / Howard Dillon.

Product details

'Celebrating Twenty Years' is a collection of contemporary classical works by twenty-three Australian composers based in both Melbourne and Sydney, Australia's two largest cities. Melbourne, the home of the Melbourne Composers' League (MCL), is acknowledged as one of the most multicultural cities in the world, with more than 30 percent of its population born overseas and its 251 distinct 'spoken' languages being a number greater than the number of countries in the world. Demographic surveys state that a language other than English is spoken at home by three in ten of its residents. This represents a multicultural linguistic diversity that also serves as an analogy for the aesthetic diversity found in the music styles of its composers, who draw inspiration from an either modernist, postmodern, neoromantic or pluralist sensibility.

This MCL triple compact disc celebrates twenty years since the founding of the composer organisation - a collegial group of artists committed to championing the aspirations of the individual within the collective in an effort to reflect the eclecticism evident in contemporary-classical music composition in Australia today.