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Kouvaras - Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs Vol.2 | Toccata Classics TOCC0734

Kouvaras - Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs Vol.2

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0734

Barcode: 5060113447340

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 17th January 2025

Contents

Artists

Jane Magao (soprano)
Karen Van Spall (mezzo-soprano)
Tiriki Onus (narrator)
Coady Green (piano)
Georgina Lewis (piano)
Roger Alsop (sound design)

Works

Kouvaras, Linda

Herring Island Piano Sonata
Winter Came Early

Artists

Jane Magao (soprano)
Karen Van Spall (mezzo-soprano)
Tiriki Onus (narrator)
Coady Green (piano)
Georgina Lewis (piano)
Roger Alsop (sound design)

About

As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of space, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures. The two substantial works on this second Toccata Classics album of her music demonstrate her concern that her compositions engage with the outside world: the epic Herring Island Piano Sonata adds narrator and recorded sound – not least of local birds – to the piano to bring alive the Indigenous history of a small hidden paradise in downtown Melbourne, and the poems set in Winter Came Early reveal a mother and daughter coming to terms with a fatal diagnosis of cancer.

‘this album should be considered definitive. It is certainly beautifully performed by Green. […] the excellent mezzo Linda Barcam brings these powerful and moving settings very much to life. Three St Kilda Sketches, written in the mid-1990s, evoke the vibrant character of the Melbourne suburb, making for an attractive introduction to Kouvaras’s sound world.’ – Steve Moffat, Limelight (Vol.1, TOCC0729)

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