Women Of Note - A Century of Australian Composers - Vol. 2

Building on the success of our first Women of Note album last year, ABC Classic is thrilled to be releasing the second volume in our now annual celebration of Australia’s female composers. This 2CD album, released in time for International Women’s Day (8 March), begins with music from pioneers of Australia’s musical heritage: Margaret Sutherland, Miriam Hyde, Dulcie Holland, and introducing Linda Phillips, whose work as a critic and as chief adjudicator of the prestigious Sun Aria competition across three decades helped to shape this country’s musical landscape, but whose compositions – prized by such artists as Dame Joan Sutherland – have been unjustly neglected in Australia’s recorded music catalogue. Five other world premiere recordings feature on the album. Multiple award-winning composer Mary Finsterer is represented by a live concert recording of her double bass concerto Lake Ice. From Miriama Young we have a re-imagination of the historical soundworld of Sydney Harbour in Time and Tide, blending field recordings ancient and modern with brass and percussion instruments. We are also delighted to be presenting the first commercial recording of music by rising star Ella Macens: her soaring orchestral work The Space Between Stars. From Yorta Yorta woman, opera singer, composer and educator Deborah Cheetham comes Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace: a powerful and poignant response to the resistance war fought by the Gunditjmara people in southwest Victoria and to the trouble

Tracks

1~1~ Dulcie Holland Sonata For Violin And Piano
1~2~Linda Phillips Exaltation (Chassidic Air And Dance)
1~3~Miriam Hyde Village Fair
1~4~Margaret Sutherland Haunted Hills
1~5~Moya Henderson Kudikynah Cave
1~6~Katia Tiutiunnik The Quickening
1~7~Elena Kats-Chernin Eliza Aria
2~1~Katy Abbott Punch
2~2~Mary Finsterer Lake Ice: Missed Tales No. 1
2~3~Amanda Cole Glocken Blocken
2~4~Miriama Young Time And Tide
2~5~Rachel Bruerville Dancing On Tiptoes
2~6~Natalie Nicolas We Won’T Let You Down
2~7~Ella MacEns The Space Between Stars
2~8~Deborah Cheetham Eumeralla, A War Requiem For Peace – Excerpts
2~9~Nardi Simpson Wilga’S Last Dance

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 05 July 2021
Genre: Classical Music
Label: Abc Classic
Distributor: Rocket Group