Roger SMALLEY: Piano, Vocal and Chamber Music
Roger Smalley (1943–2015) made his mark, first in his native Britain and then in Australia, as composer, pianist, conductor, writer, academic and teacher. Although as performer and commentator he was at the forefront of musical modernism, he was also very fond of nineteenth-century Romanticism, and much of his music bridges the gap between old and new, retaining its roots in the past while reflecting the concerns of his own time, as the works on this album demonstrate.
Taryn Fiebig, soprano (Tracks 2–10)
Darryl Poulsen, horn (Tracks 22)
James Cuddeford, violin (Tracks 11)
Daniel Herscovitch, piano (Track 1)
Scott Davie, piano (Tracks 2–10)
Roger Smalley, tam-tams (Track 22)
Listen To This Recording:
- Albumblatt (1990)*
- I With slow and confidential pace
- II In a dim corner of my room
- III A cat tinkles on a piano
- IV Of a noble race she came
- V I am the cat of cats
- VI One of the clock, and silence deep
- VII The cat has a nervous nervous nervous ear
- VIII I shall go I shall go I shall go into a cat
- IX Observe the cat upon this page
- Capriccio No. 1 (1966)*
- Barcarolle (1986)
- Morceau de Concours (2008)*
- I [crotchet] = 66
- II [quaver] = 100
- III [quaver] = 84
- IV 1/2 = [crotchet] = 60
- V [crotchet] = 200
- No. 1 Gamelan: for the left hand alone
- No. 2 Moto perpetuo (with interruptions): for the right hand alone
- No. 3 Dialogue: for both hands
- Lament for the Victims of Natural Disasters for horn and four tam-tams (2005)*
Nine Lives – A Song-Cycle about Cats for soprano and piano (2008)*
Piano Pieces I–V (1962–65)
Three Studies in Black and White for piano (2002–4)*
*FIRST RECORDINGS
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