Smalley - Piano, Vocal and Chamber Music | Toccata Classics TOCC0501

Smalley - Piano, Vocal and Chamber Music

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0501

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd August 2019

Contents

About

Roger Smalley (1943–2015) made his mark, first in his native Britain and then in Australia, as composer, pianist, conductor, writer, academic and teacher. Although as performer and commentator he was at the forefront of musical modernism, he was also very fond of nineteenth-century Romanticism, and much of his music bridges the gap between old and new, retaining its roots in the past while reflecting the concerns of his own time, as the works on this album demonstrate.

The artists appearing in this recording are some of Australia’s finest musicians. The soprano Taryn Fiebig has performed with all the major Australian opera companies and orchestras. She is also an accomplished cellist, and appears in concert as singer and cellist. A distinguished academic, the horn-player Darryl Poulsen has also held principal-horn positions in European and Australian orchestras and performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia and toured nationally and internationally as a soloist. James Cuddeford is currently Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Scott Davie is known to audiences as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2012, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy, he gave the Australian premiere of the original version of Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the Sydney Opera House. And Daniel Herscovitch is currently Associate Professor of Piano at The University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he has also lectured for many years in chamber music and piano pedagogy.
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