Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs Vol. 3

wykonawcy

Green, Coady, Halloran, Antoinette, Lyrebird Brass

nr katalogowy

TOCC 0794

opis

The Australian Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) – pianist and musicologist as well as composer – adopts an explicitly feminist viewpoint in her work. She describes She, Who Should Have Been a Queen as a song-cycle, but in fact the text, by Antoinette Halloran, presents a series of dramatic scenas that radically re-assess the fates of a series of female characters from famous operas, the edgy humour and familiar musical language only slightly softening the implied social commentary. To the Lighthouse for brass quintet has, improbably, both a feminist subtext and the engaging buoyancy of a Baroque canzona. As with many other Australian composers, Kouvaras’ piano music has a strong sense of space and place, and her expansive Bundanon Suite uses virtuosic piano-writing to present a series of sketches of the landscapes around the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales, with lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures.

Works:

•Kouvaras: She, Who Should Have Been a Queen for Soprano & Piano
•Kouvaras: To the Lighthouse for Brass Quintet
•Kouvaras: Bundanon Suite for Piano

nośnik

CD x 1

wydawca

Toccata Classics

data wydania

1.07.2026

EAN / kod kreskowy

5060113447944

58,00 zł