Coady Green, Justin Kenealy, Linda Barcan - Linda Kouvaras: Instrumental Music, Chamber Works & Songs, Vol. 1 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 1, Andante
02. 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 2, Dark, Manic, Turbulent
03. 3 St. Kilda Sketches: No. 3, Animato
04. Night Pieces "Reflections After COVID-19": No. 1, Shelter in Place
05. Night Pieces "Reflections After COVID-19": No. 2, Isolation
06. Night Pieces "Reflections After COVID-19": No. 3, Reach-Out
07. Night Pieces "Reflections After COVID-19": No. 4, Elegy
08. Night Pieces "Reflections After COVID-19": No. 5, Hope
09. Art & Life: No. 1, Sleeping Girl
10. Art & Life: No. 2, Lullaby for Kyle
11. Art & Life: No. 3, Woman's Predicament
12. Art & Life: No. 4, Party Lines & Deaf Ears
13. Art & Life: No. 5, Art & Life
14. Art & Life: No. 6, Distant Lullaby
15. Shoalhaven Nightpainters

As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of wide-open spaces, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling Lisztian piano textures and atmospheric echoes of French Impressionism. In this first album of a series presenting all of her instrumental works, chamber music and songs written since 1991, she also addresses two major contemporary issues, with a duo for saxophone and piano exploring the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a song-cycle confronting domestic violence from a woman’s viewpoint.

Justin Kenealy, saxophone
Linda Barcan, mezzo-soprano
Coady Green, piano

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