The Australian Horn, Volume One: A Century of Chamber Music
Classical music in Australia is barely two centuries old, and many of its riches remain as good as unknown, both at home and abroad. This album of chamber music featuring the horn – itself a largely unfamiliar genre – charts the evolution of Australian music in microcosm, from Romanticism via modernism to a sound suggesting the open space of the outback. This repertoire is as good as unknown at home and further afield, though all of it has personality and presence, and should prove a revelation to the international horn-playing community and to audiences more generally.
Carla Blackwood, horn
David Griffiths, clarinet
Elizabeth Sellars and Lucy Warren, violins
Caroline Henbest and Jenny Khafagi, violas
Rhodri Clarke, piano
Peter de Jaeger, piano
Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916)
- Quartet in E-flat major for Horn, Violin, Viola and Pianoforte(1904)* (2:38)
G.W.L. Marshall-Hall
Quartet in B major for Violin, Viola, Horn and Piano (1909)** (28:30)
- I. Allegro (7:40)
- II. Lento penseroso (6:51)
- III. Allegro grazioso (5:00)
- IV. Allegro animato (8:59)
Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)
Quartet in G Minor, House Quartet, for Clarinet, Viola, Horn and Piano (1942) (17:11)
- I. [no tempo marking] (4:15)
- II. [Adagio] (4:53)
- III. [Rondino. Allegro giocoso] (2:13)
- IV. [Allegro deciso] (5:50)
Don Banks (1923–80)
Horn Concerto (1965) (arr. Catherine Likhuta, 2023)* (22:04)
- I. Lento– (1:19)
- II. Adagio – (2:18)
- III. A tempo; drammatico – (4:33)
- IV. Tenero; a tempo – (2:51)
- V. Misurato; a tempo – (3:00)
- VI. Con spirito; ♩ = 76–80 – (2:17)
- VII. Tranquillo – (3:01)
- VIII. A tempo: ♩ = 69 (2:45)
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.