Coady Green, Justin Kenealy, Linda Barcan – Linda Kouvaras: Instrumental Music, Chamber Works & Songs, Vol. 1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:24 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of wide-open spaces, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling Lisztian piano textures and atmospheric echoes of French Impressionism. In this first album of a series presenting all of her instrumental works, chamber music and songs written since 1991, she also addresses two major contemporary issues, with a duo for saxophone and piano exploring the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a song-cycle confronting domestic violence from a woman’s viewpoint.
Tracklist:
1-01. Coady Green – 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 1, Andante (05:02)
1-02. Coady Green – 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 2, Dark, Manic, Turbulent (02:52)
1-03. Coady Green – 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 3, Animato (04:22)
1-04. Coady Green – Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”: No. 1, Shelter in Place (04:44)
1-05. Coady Green – Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”: No. 2, Isolation (06:03)
1-06. Coady Green – Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”: No. 3, Reach-Out (04:42)
1-07. Coady Green – Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”: No. 4, Elegy (04:26)
1-08. Coady Green – Night Pieces “Reflections After COVID-19”: No. 5, Hope (05:35)
1-09. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 1, Sleeping Girl (04:09)
1-10. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 2, Lullaby for Kyle (02:32)
1-11. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 3, Woman’s Predicament (06:36)
1-12. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 4, Party Lines & Deaf Ears (01:43)
1-13. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 5, Art & Life (06:53)
1-14. Coady Green – Art & Life: No. 6, Distant Lullaby (02:05)
1-15. Coady Green – Shoalhaven Nightpainters (12:35)
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