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American Dream

SKU: 01336

Price:
AU $18.13

Label: Jade Cat. No.: JADCD1090 Medium: CD No. Discs: 1

Carson P. Cooman

has given live performances of a number of Allworth's organ works in the US, which have received favourable notices in the press, including:

"...The next offering was by Australian composer Robert Allworth and was an absolute aural treat. Lush and ravishing sonorities abounded in the slowly moving musical landscape of its two movements - melodies of diverse natures slowly unfolded. Cooman's loving interpretation brought out subtle nuances in the presentations of melodic and harmonic ideas that appeared and reappeared. A highly effective work leading to lucious polytonal climax. This is an excellent work by a talented composer. I look forward to hearing more of his work..." - Hal Mondrian, New Musica New York USA.

Artists:

Lawrence Bartlett (organ), Carson P Cooman (organ), Mary Mageau (piano), Barnaby Ralph (recorders).

Composers:

Robert Allworth, Lawrence Bartlett, Betty Beath, Ann Carr-Boyd, Carson P Cooman, Eric Gross, Mary Mageau, Ian Shanahan, Derek Strahan.

Tracks:

This is the first Jade CD featuring works by both American and Australian composers. Prolific US composer Carson P. Cooman, also a fine organist, performs two pieces written by Allworth in 2000 and dedicated to the memory of Oscar Wilde (A Dream of Decadence / Decay of Lying) as well as his own "Romanza For Organ" (2000), a meditative piece enriched by lush sonorities. The works were recorded in the USA and played on the Isham Memorial Organ (built 1967) in The Memorial Church, Harvard University. The title track, by Carr-Boyd (for flute and piano) was inspired by the composer's attendance in 1992 at a meeting at a large theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, held to commemorate Martin Luther King Day. Also for flute and piano is Strahan's "Et In Arcadia Ego" (1990), a Cantata from a larger work "Atlantis" (released on JADCD 1063, Voodoo Fire). This segment portrays a lovers' idyll on the balcony of a villa overlooking the ocean on a moonlit night in Atlantis.

Exciting counterpoint abounds in "Essay for Mandolin and Wind Quintet" (1996) by Gross and in his intriguing "Concertino for Button Accordion (Bayan) and Plectrum Ensemble" (2000). Allworth's "Study In Grey" for Mandolin and Wind Quintet (1997), a serial work, sustains lyricism through the use of surprising harmonies and melodic lines. Shanahan's "Solar Dust: Orbits and Spirals" (19988/99), a work for solo mandolin, employs a range of devices (including microtonal deviations) to paint a "spacescape" of the planet Saturn, observed through the ice crystals which comprise its rings. Mageau solos in her own piano work "Soliloquy" written in 1984 as a dance piece, and Barnaby Ralph ably conveys elemental quietude in Beath's Night Songs No. 1 and 2, for solo Recorder, Bass then Alto. Bartlett's celebratory "Procession for Elizabeth" provides organ sonorities recorded by himself in Sydney, Australia.

Medium:

No. of Discs:

SKU #:

01336

Label:

Jade

Catalog #:

JADCD1090

Price: AU $18.13

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