The Australian Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) – pianist and musicologist as well as composer – adopts an explicitly feminist viewpoint in her work. She describes She, Who Should Have Been a Queen as a song-cycle, but in fact the text, by Antoinette Halloran, presents a series of dramatic scenas that radically re-assess the fates of a series of female characters from famous operas, the edgy humour and familiar musical language only slightly softening the implied social commentary. To the Lighthouse for brass quintet has, improbably, both a feminist subtext and the engaging buoyancy of a Baroque canzona. As with many other Australian composers, Kouvaras’ piano music has a strong sense of space and place, and her expansive Bundanon Suite uses virtuosic piano-writing to present a series of sketches of the landscapes around the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales, with lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures.
Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works And Songs Vol.3
She, Who Should Have Been a Queen for Soprano and Piano (2024)
I Lady Macbeth on a Soapbox at Last (after Verdi’s Macbeth)
II The Nurse’s Curse (after Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet)
III Pinkerton’s Lament (after Puccini’s Madama Butterfly)
IV Buttercup and the Cruel Stomp of Time (after Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore)
V Just Gilda (after Verdi’s Rigoletto)
VI Musetta’s Schmaltz (after Puccini’s La bohème)
VII The Snake’s Persssspective: A Revisionist Commentary on The Drover’s Wife (after Mills’ The Ghost Wife)
To the Lighthouse for Brass Quintet (2022)
Bundanon Suite for Piano (1999)
I Secrets of the Amphitheatre
II Shimmering Haze on the Shoalhaven
III Lament for Helen
IV Haunted Point
V Bundanon Rhapsody
VI Old Forest Growth
Antoinette Halloran, Coady Green, Lyrebird Brass, Joel Brennan, Joel Walmsley, Carla Blackwood, Don Immel, Nelson Woods
15,90€
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