Recorded at Trackdown Scoring Stage, Sydney Sept 2013 and July 2014
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Daniel Brown
Produced by Halcyon
Cover photo: Michael Chetham
Cover graphic: Elizabeth Duck-Chong
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Also available in CD format from the Australian Music Centre
Now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services
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Released by Halcyon on 29 November 2016
Review
“Halcyon’s Waves III …is an important record of the pioneering work that Halcyon has accomplished in substantially broadening the canon of contemporary Australian song.”
Shamistha de Soysa
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Live performances
The third of Halcyon’s EP releases, Waves III features two new song cycles by Australian composers Raffaele Marcellino and Nigel Butterley.
Commissioned by Halcyon, both works focus on a figure from Greek mythology and feature texts by contemporary Australian poets. A Strange Kind of Paradise (2010), for four female voices and harp, by Raffaele Marcellino centres on abandoned Ariadne, with poems by Jordie Albiston. Scored for mezzo-soprano, soprano, flute, clarinet, oboe, violin, viola, cello and guitar, Nigel Butterley’s Orphei Mysteria (2008), sets poems by Patricia Excell which explore elements of the Orpheus myth.
TRACK LIST
Nigel Butterley Orphei Mysteria (2008)
Raffaele Marcellino A Strange Kind of Paradise (2013)
ARTISTS
BUTTERLEY: Matthew Wood conductor, Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano, Alison Morgan soprano, Sally Walker flutes, Peter Smith clarinets, Alexandre Oguey oboe/cor anglais, Giuseppe Zangari guitar, Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich violin, James Wannan viola, Geoffrey Gartner cello
MARCELLINO: Alison Morgan soprano Belinda Montgomery soprano Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo-soprano Jo Burton mezzo-soprano Genevieve Lang harp