interesting australian compositions

[Tash]

haha this is typical, an aussie asking an international forum about aussie piano music. but anyway, i want to look at some contemporary (ie. not percy grainger!) pieces i can play that aren't too easy or too difficult (we're looking at an Amus/Lmus level)- i'm in love with carl vine (sonatas are the bomb), so is nigel westlake's sonata, and i'm getting into elena kats-chernin at the moment, but there's so much out there and i don't know what's good!!! ie. aussie's can you give me a hand?!!

[astroboy]

Carl Vines 5 Bagatelles are quite nice.. Also, Djillilie (sp?) by Peter Sculthorpe is beautiful and not overly difficult. And anything by Miriam Hyde usually sounds quite noice too.

[thalbergmad]

I would suggest you look at the works of Rolf Harris.

He is probably the best of the Australian composers.

Look at "sunrise" and "two little boys", as they are his best compositions IMO

Checkit.

Thalx

[Waldszenen]

Sculthorpe's Piano Concerto 

[jre58591]

carl vine - 1st-3rd sonatas
word on the street is that the 3rd has been recorded already

[ted]

Margaret Brandman played some of her pieces for me when she was holidaying here last year; I thought they were very good.

How far back is allowable ? Sefton Daly wrote many nice pieces, e.g. Brief Candles.

[Tash]

vine has a 3rd sonata? coooool

sculthorpe's piano concerto is too long!! dudes we're thinking solo, i'm currently looking at the vine bagatelles they're the bomb. anything is really allowable that's just my choice, maybe not more than 40yrs ago...

[jre58591]

vine has a 3rd sonata? coooool

yeah, someone at my school, a faculty member or former student, i dont know, was commissioned to record it.

[tds]

how about collin spears' sonatas?

[galonia]

I'm not into Carl Vine, don't know why, his music just doesn't speak to me, I guess.

I'm really into Peter Sculthorpe's work though.  For LMusA, I played Mountains, which is a lovely piece - and not very long either.

And yes, Miriam Hyde wrote some beautiful stuff.

[Tash]

wow galonia you'relike the first person i've heard who likes peter sculthorpe- i don't mind him, but i know a lot of people who really don't

[mikey6]

wow galonia you'relike the first person i've heard who likes peter sculthorpe- i don't mind him, but i know a lot of people who really don't

Lol- I was just gonna say that
Personally I think the Vine bagatelles are BORING! but that's just me.
There's Twilight Rains by Koehne, Coruscations by Richard Meale I think (if not, it's Richard Mills - always get them mixed up), Uttering Joyous Leaves by Butterley, there's come crap by Brumby and Sitsky as well.  a bit older but 'reedwarbler' by Brewster-Jones is fun, I did it for my 8th grade so might be a bit easy.
There's a lot of Miriam Hyde if you want to play her - a sonata was recently revived by Geoffrey Tozer.  'Valley of rocks' is played fairly often, or 'wet night on the Highway' which is nice.

[galonia]

Hey, thanks mikey6, that was the piece I was thinking of - Hyde's Valley of the Rocks.  Absolutely beautiful piece.  i've been thinking of giving that a go myself.

[Tash]

MAN have any of you heard elena kat-chernin's 'stur in dur'?!! it's the coolest! i totally want to play that for my 3rd yr recital or something, that'd knock the socks off the audience, yelling away whilst singing hahaha