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Work Overview
"A painting perfectly caught in music, an alluring reflection of a unique part of Australia." - Rob Kennedy, City News
An homage to one of Australia's most significant impressionist landscape paintings, Greenaway's piece for string quartet, The Murray And The Mountain evokes the dynamic flow of Australia's high country.
Streeton had a deep appreciation of Australia's land and environment, and its conservation.He considered this painting crucial to Australia's national identity, depicting the unique scenery nearby to Corryong, with snow-capped ranges and Mount Kosciuszko in the distance and idyllic farm land flanking the Murray River.
The music video features a recreation of Streeton's painting, by award-winning Queanbeyan painter Paul Martin, whose brushstrokes are captured stroke-by-stroke in stop motion by animator and film director Marisa Martin.
The compelling performance of Greenaway's The Murray And The Mountain, by Canberra Strings (violinists Barbara Jane Gilby and Pip Thompson, violist Lucy Carrigy-Ryan, and cellist Samuel Payne), filmed by Luke Patterson, captures both the movement and energy of Greenaway's music and Streeton's painting.
Conjuring images of rugged snowy peaks and rocky outcrops, open areas rich with wildflowers and heath, expanses of white gnarly limbs of gums - this ancient Yerto landscape is known most intimately by the Jaithmathang, Dhudhuroa, Ngarigo and Wolgalu first nations peoples, who have known its beauty and treacherousness for many thousands of years. The surrounding grazing land and townships punctuate the rich historic tapestry of this unique environment.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
Duration: 6 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Commission note: Commissioned by Lucy Carrigy-Ryan for the closing of the Streeton exhibition (Feb 2021), Art Gallery of NSW.
First performance: by Nora Clench Quartet — 14 Feb 21. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
Canberra Strings, Arthur Streeton, Australian Oil Painting, Murray River, Mount Kosciuszko, Australian High Country, Landscape Painting, Nature and Music, Women Composers, Female Composer, Sally Greenaway, Barbara Jane Gilby, Ngunnawal Country, Ngambri Country, Jaithmathang Country, Dhudhuroa Country, Ngarigo County, Wolgalu Country
Videos
The Murray And The Mountain |
Performances of this work
14 Feb 21: Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW . Featuring Nora Clench Quartet.
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