Elena Kats-Chernin: Ancient Letters (CD)
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Elena Kats-Chernin: Ancient Letters (CD)

Artists: 
Johannes Fritzsch,  
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra,  
Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Product Code: 0199538033588

$21.99

From ARIA Award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska: music by Australia’s favourite composer, Elena Kats-Chernin. Two new concertos: Ancient Letters, inspired by personal letters written 1700 years ago by an abandoned woman on the Silk Road near Samarkand, and Lebewohl, imagining the grief experienced by the great composer Bach when he returned home from a 6-week trip to find his wife, Maria Barbara, dead and buried. Plus a new version of Elena’s most popular track, "Eliza Aria", for piano and orchestra.

Tracklist

PAUL STANHOPE b. 1969
Requiem
I. Introit
II. Tree Grave (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
III. Kyrie / The Rain of Merciful Cloud (Neela Nath Das)
IV. Song (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
V. Sanctus
VI. Agnus Dei / Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Attrib. Mary Elizabeth Frye)
VII. Dawn Wail for the Dead (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
VIII. Lux aeterna
IX. In paradisum / Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson)

Chloe Lankshear soprano
Richard Butler tenor
Sydney Chamber Choir

Nicola Bell / Matthew Tighe oboe / cor anglais
David Rowden clarinet / bass clarinet
Andrew Barnes / Laura Brown bassoon
Euan Harvey horn • Emily Granger harp • Jess Ciampa percussion

Sam Allchurch conductor

Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano)

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)