CDTime is a river / Graeme Koehne.
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Featured Australian works
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Between two worlds : suite from the ballet 1914 for orchestra Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on 2014. |
Graeme Koehne | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | 26 mins, 34 sec. |
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Divertissement : trois pièces bourgeoises (1983) for string orchestra Recorded/performed at: TSO Rehearsal Studio, Hobart, on 20 Apr 04. |
Graeme Koehne | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | |
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Forty reasons to be cheerful (2013) festive fanfare for orchestra Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on 2014. |
Graeme Koehne | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | 6 mins, 43 sec. |
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The persistence of memory (2014) elegy for oboe and string orchestra Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on 2014. |
Graeme Koehne | David Nuttall, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | 9 mins, 47 sec. |
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Time is a river — clarinet with string orchestra Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on 2014. |
Graeme Koehne | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Dean, Richard Mills | 16 mins, 55 sec. |
Product details
The disc opens with the joyous fanfare Forty Reasons to Be Cheerful, commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the Adelaide Festival Centre and inspired by the open-hearted optimism of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'. The short elegy The Persistence of Memory is a haunting and poignant tribute to Guy Henderson, former principal oboist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a work inspired by what Koehne describes as a "language of emotions". "Music is part of how we communicate: it's what humans do - not an abstract series of sounds. [This piece] reflects an attempt to return to the fundamental elements of musical 'language'." Divertissement: Trois Pièces Bourgeoises expresses Koehne's desire "to give simple pleasure to my fellow-citizens."
Between Two Worlds is a reflective work inspired by David Malouf's novel Fly Away Peter, which traces the journey from innocence to bitter experience of a young man enlisting in the First World War; the six-movement suite is taken from the full-length ballet score commissioned from Koehne by The Australian Ballet. The album closes with Time is a River: "The string quartet is the 'river', pursuing its relentless course, by turns gentle, swirling, turbulent and free-flowing. The clarinet represents some form of persona - a soul, if you like - that is carried along by the flow of the strings, pursuing its own diverse range of characters: melancholic, reflective, playful, ecstatic, capricious, finally reaching a state of acquiescence or acceptance."
Duration: 74 min.
This product forms part of the following series: TSO Australian composer series.
Library reference copy includes liner notes include programme notes.
CD is out of print & not available for purchase from the AMC.
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