Various Artists - Incantations: Chamber Music by Ross Edwards (CD DOUBLE SLIMLINE CASE)

Various Artists - Incantations: Chamber Music by Ross Edwards (CD DOUBLE SLIMLINE CASE)

One of Australia’s best known and most performed composers, Ross Edwards has created a distinctive sound world based on deep ecology and an awareness of the need to reconnect music with elemental forces and restore its traditional association with ritual.

Throughout a long and storied career, Ross has written music that celebrates Australia -its cultural diversity, its natural environment, and its connection to the vast and diverse Pacific Rim region. Perhaps nowhere is this better demonstrated than in his chamber music, which allows for rich, detailed musical textures as well as an intense, focussed intimacy.

Incantationscelebrates Ross’s 75thbirthday in December 2018 by presenting a collection of his chamber music performed by some of Australia’s finest musicians, many of whom commissioned or premiered the pieces included here. It contains four previously unreleased recordings and a number of others making their CD debut, as well as highlights from the ABC Classics catalogue.

It features a tremendous array of Australian musicians, including the Goldner String Quartet, Riley Lee, Claire Edwardes, Karin Schaupp, New Sydney Wind Quintet, Apollo Trio, Enigma Quartet, Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo, Jason Noble, Melissa Doecke, Mark Isaacs, The Seymour Group, Alexandre Oguey, Bernadette Harvey, and the Australia Ensemble @UNSW.

Tracklistings:

CD1

1-5 Animisms*

Australia Ensemble @UNSW

6-7 Sea Star Fantasy

Bernadette Harvey piano

8-11 String Quartet No. 2 'ShekinaFantasy’*

Goldner String Quartet

12 Djanaba

Claire Edwardes marimba, Karin Schaupp guitar

13-15 Incantations

New Sydney Wind Quintet

16-18 Piano Trio

Apollo Trio

*Previously unreleased recordings

CD2

1-5 The Laughing Moon

New Sydney Wind Quintet

6 Voice of the Rain*

Riley Lee shakuhachi, Enigma Quartet

7-9 Piano Sonata

Bernadette Harvey piano

10 Water Spirit Song*

Alexandre Oguey coranglais

11-19 A Flight of Sunbirds

Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo

20 Binyang

Jason Noble clarinet, Claire Edwardes claves

21-23 Nura

Melissa Doecke flute, Mark Isaacs piano

24-28 Laikan

The Seymour Group