Dark Love

Date: 23 November 2004
Venue: Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

PROGRAM
John Harbison - Mirabai Songs (1982)
George Crumb - Night of the Four Moons (1969)
Rosalind Page - Sonetos del amor oscuro (2004) *
Gabriel Erkoreka - Bizitza (1998) ^
* World premiere  ^ Australian premiere

ARTISTS
Roland Peelman  conductor Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Laura Chislett Jones  alto flute, piccolo  Diana Springford   clarinet  Vanessa Souter  harp Michael Hooper  banjo  Daryl Pratt  percussion  John Douglas  percussion  Sophie Cole  violin  Nicole Forsyth  viola  Deborah Coogan  cello  Helen Cosgrove  double bass 

Broadcast on ABC Classic FM on Wednesday 9 February 2005 8pm
 

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CONCERT RECORDING

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Sirens: The Allure of the Female Voice

Date: 17 July 2004
Venue: Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Date: 26 September 2004
Venue: Federation Hall  Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne

PROGRAM
Dan Walker - King Ludwig's Swans (2004) *
Edward McGuire - Celtic Knotwork (1994) ^
Ruth Lee Martin - Carmina Gaedelica (1999)
Kaija Saariaho - Nej och inte (1979) ^
Kahlevi Aho - Rakkaus aus musta leona (2003) ^
Kerry Andrew - luna-cy (2001) ^
Graham Hair - O Venezia (2004) ^

• World premiere  ^ Australian premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Belinda Montgomery  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano 
Jo Burton  mezzo soprano  Genevieve Lang  harp

*Jo Burton appears courtesy of The Song Company

Recorded for future broadcast by ABC Classic FM

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Close Ups

Date: June 10 2004
Venue: Trackdown Scoring Studio

PROGRAM
Kaija Saariaho - Du gick, flög (1982)
Rachel Clement - Fracture (2000) ^
Sally Beamish - Buzz (1993) ^
Edison Denisov - Archipel de songes (1994)
Libby Larsen - Do you know and Liebeslied from Beloved, Thou hast brought me many flowers (1994) ^
Jonathan Harvey - Lullaby for the Unsleeping (1982)
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki - Good Night (movt 2 & 3) (1990)
David Bedford - Come in here child (1968)
Dai Fujikura - Still sweet... (1998) ^
Earl Kim - Now and then (1982)
Fung Lam - Amitabha (2002) *
Ross Harris - ...inside the rainbow air... (2002) ^
John Peterson - The Return (2004) *

* World premiere ^ Australian premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Steven Meyer  flute  Alexandre Oguey  cor anglais Alison Eddington  percussion  Lucy O’Shea  harp Sally Whitwell  piano  Nicole Forsyth  viola  Sally Maer  cello 

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LISTEN to selected tracks from the performance HERE

Raising Sparks

Date: 7 November 2003
Venue: Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

PROGRAM
Jane Stanley - Maiden Aunts (2003) *
James Macmillan - Raising Sparks (1999)
Paul Stanhope - Shadow Dancing (2001)
Harrison Birtwistle - 9 Settings of Celan from Pulse Shadows (1996)
* World premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Matthew Wood  conductor  Steven Meyer  flute  Diana Springford  clarinet   David Bull  clarinet  Genevieve Lang  harp  Sally Whitwell  piano  Sophie Cole  violin  Alex Norton  violiin Nicole Forsyth  viola  Deborah Coogan  cello  Andrew Meisel  double bass 

Broadcast by ABC Classic FM Monday 8 January 2007 8pm

Earth Jewels

Date: 6 September 2003
Venue: St Aidan's Church, Annandale

PROGRAM
Christine McCombe - Halcyon (1994)
Elizabeth Maconchy - Sun, Moon and Stars (1978)
Ross Edwards - The Hermit of Green Light (1979)
Oliver Knussen - Whitman Settings (1991)
Ross Edwards - Maninya V (1985)
Kerry Andrew - fruit songs (2003) ^
Somei Satoh - The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights (1979)

^ Australian Premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Janet Agostino  guitar  Sally Whitwell  piano  Leigh Giles  percussion

WORKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAM

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The Bold Concert

Date: 12 October 2002
Venue: St Andrew's Cathedral School

Date: 17 October 2002 
Venue: John Lingard Hall Canberra Grammar School

PROGRAM
Albert Roussel - Deux Poemes de Ronsard (1924)
Rosalind Page - Apollinaire Songs (2002 version)**
Andrew Robbie - Damp Leaves and Conversation (2002) *
Jacques Ibert - Deux Steles Orientees  (1925)
Sharon Calcraft - Stephanos (2002) *
Kaija Saariaho - Grammaire des Rêves (1988-89) ^

* World premiere   ^ Australian premiere
** includes new movement l'univers

ARTISTS
Matthew Wood  conductor  Alison Morgan soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo-soprano Kathleen Gallagher flutes  Balinese gong  Steven Meyer  flute  Diana Springford  clarinet  Nicole Forsyth  viola  Deborah Coogan  cello  Genevieve Lang  harp  Alice Giles  electro-acoustic harp  Andrew Robbie  piano

WORKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAM

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Lush: Songs of the 20th Century

Date: 10 August 2002
Venue: St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney

PROGRAM
Claude Debussy - Ariettes oubliées (1903)
Ned Rorem - You, the young rainbow (1948)
Ned Rorem - The lover in Winter plaineth for the Spring (1951)
Ned Rorem - O you whom I often and silently come (1957)
Elliott Carter - Voyage (1943)
Manuel de Falla - Les colombes (1909)
Francis Poulenc - Carte-Postale (1931)
George Crumb - Apparition (1980)
Xavier Montsalvatge - Canciones para niños (1964)

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Jeanell Carrigan  piano  Andrew Robbie  piano

Concert 3

Date: 10 November 2001
Venue: St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney

PROGRAM
Margaret Sutherland - Midnight, Winter Kestrel, Woman’s Song from Six song settings to the poems of Judith Wright (1967)
Joseph Schwantner - Black Anemones from Two Poems by Aguedo Pizarro (1980) ^
Jack Beeson - Two Sonnets of Edna St Vincent Millay (1992)
John Harbison - Mirabai songs (1982)
Melita White - Song (Amores II) (1998)
Melissa Hui - Three Songs on poems by Longfellow (1985-88) ^
Claire Jordan - Memory (2001) *
* World premiere   ^ Australian premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Sally Whitwell  piano  

WORKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAM

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Concert 2 - In Collaboration with Ensemble Offspring

Date: 29 September 2001
Venue: St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney

Presented in collaboration with Ensemble Offspring

PROGRAM
Ross Edwards - Maninya I (1981 rev. 1985)
Melissa Hui - Lacrymosa (1996) ^
Anne Boyd - Cycle of love (1981)
Elisabeth Lutyens - The Valley of Hatsu-se (1965)
Kaija Saariaho - Cendres (1998)
Maurice Ravel - Chansons madécasses (1926)
John Tavener - Akhmatova songs (1993)
^ Australian premiere

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo soprano  Geoff Gartner  cello  Kathleen Gallagher  flutes  David Bull  clarinets  Kerry Yong  piano

Concert 1

Date: 9 June 2001
Venue: St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney

PROGRAM
Claude Debussy - Trio-Sonate (1915)
Gillian Whitehead - These Isles Your Dream (1983)
George Crumb - Federico's Little Songs For Children (1986)
Samuel Barber - Hermit Songs (1952-53)

ARTISTS
Alison Morgan  soprano  Jenny Duck-Chong  mezzo-soprano  Alison Mitchell  flute  Nicole Forsyth  viola  Marshall McGuire  harp  Sally Whitwell  piano