The drama takes centre stage in J. S. Bach’s powerful and richly layered St John Passion, composed for Good Friday in 1724. Read more.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Red Desert SandCSO 2023: CHROMAPeople
Aaron Wyatt: The Coming Dawn
Aaron Wyatt has been a participant in the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program, writing for Ensemble Offspring. He has also written a number of electro-acoustic works, using a mix of traditional and animated graphic notation, for Decibel, GreyWing Ensemble and Ensemble Dutala.
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Composer Katy Abbott is forensically curious about what makes us tick. Her music explores our passions, fears and motivations using contemporary musical flavours in traditional musical settings.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Red Desert SandCSO 2023: CHROMAPeople
Peter Sculthorpe: String quartet no. 7
Sculthorpe composed over 350 works, almost all influenced by the social climate and physical characteristics of Australia. He had a deep love for his country and for its landscape, which he regarded as sacred.
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Dr Ros Bandt SoundingSpaces is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and scholar. She is a pioneering designer of new forms of musical art, sound sculptures, interactive music, sound installations and spatial electroacoustic symphonies.
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Australian MusicAustralian Series: Red Desert SandCSO 2023: CHROMAPeople
William Barton: Square Circles Beneath the Red Desert Sand
William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a composer, instrumentalist and vocalist.
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Kinds of Blue bathes in a palette of blue sonorities and bluesy, suspended textures, drawing inspiration from works by Mark Rothko and also from the blue renderings in Derek Jarman’s ‘Chroma’.
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Beyond the ridge, the ranges far is a tone poem composed by Harry Sdraulig for cello and orchestra and inspired by mountain landscapes. It was commissioned by Gisela Püllen and Karl Gordon, and is dedicated to Gisela.
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Rimsky-Korsakov had taken the idea of Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights as his starting point…the end result, he said, was a ‘kaleidoscope of fairytale images and designs of Eastern character’, more concerned with the connotations of the East it brings to mind than with literal storytelling.
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CSO 2023: CHROMALlewellyn Two: Electric BlueProgram note
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Scriabin’s Piano Concerto, which he composed in 1896, follows in the footsteps of Chopin rather than Tchaikovsky.
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