Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Vol. 2
As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of space, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures. The two substantial works on this second Toccata Classics album of her music demonstrate her concern that her compositions engage with the outside world: the epic Herring Island Piano Sonata adds narrator and recorded sound – not least of local birds – to the piano to bring alive the Indigenous history of a small hidden paradise in downtown Melbourne, and the poems set in Winter Came Early reveal a mother and daughter coming to terms with a fatal diagnosis of cancer
Coady Green, piano
Georgina Lewis, piano
Jane Magão, soprano
Karen Van Spall, mezzo-soprano
Tiriki Onus, narrator
Roger Alsop, sound design
Listen To This Recording:
Herring Island – Piano Sonata for Piano, Narrator and Recorded Sound
- I. Ngargee Tree (2:05)
- II. Introit (6:50)
- III. Long Island/Spiritus (10:50)
- IV. Waterways (6:10)
- V. Heartbeat (5:12)
- VI. Tanderrum (7:22)
- VII. Life Force (6:26)
Winter Came Early – Song-Cycle for Two Female Voices and Piano
- I. The World is so Beautiful (4:14)
- II. In the Garden of Makomp (7:31)
- III. My Anger, My Friend (8:51)
- IV. Winter Came Early (3:07)
- V. Hope (2:20)
- VI. Coming Home (4:13)
- VII. Epilogue. To David (3:32)
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