Heaven to Earth Border House
Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Timothy Phillips (percussion), Anna Fraser (soprano), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Linda Yim (piano), Chiu Tan Ching guzheng, Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and Yi Ji-young (gayageum), Ian Stevenson (sound design), Kate Fagan (poetry), Lindy Li Mark (translations)
Shy like Blushing Flowers (‘Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love’, ‘Interlude 1’, ‘Garden of Fire’, ‘Interlude 2’, ‘Strange Invisible Perfume’), Heaven to Earth Border House
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Review
The Australian composer Bruce Crossman brings east and west together on this highly modern effort, where a poetic and worldly delivery brings in some unique instruments that illuminate his innovative vision…The traditional Korean and Chinese instruments pair well with the Western percussion and chilling soprano here, and it makes for an extremely atypical and exciting listen.
TAKE EFFECT Review: 9/10; December 3, 2021
Living Colours: Pacific Sounds & Spirit
Lotte Latukefu, James Cuddeford, Claire Edwardes, Michael Kieran Harvey, Peter Neville, Tristram Williams; Navona Records NV6095, 2017; Double Resonances, Not Broken Bruised-Reed, Gentleness-Suddenness, Where Are the Sounds of Joy?
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Reviews
Crossman allows the music of the Pacific, specifically of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Filipino traditions, to influence his more or less high modern attention to sound color and sound space…something spaciously Asian but with an effectively communicative vocabulary of Western new music…Crossman is a real force for the present-future.
Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review, USA, May 18, 2017
The wealth of musical activity in Pacific rim countries is clearly a source of inspiration to Crossman, adding a fascinating dimension to music from a European heritage. His discerning blend of East and West creates an intriguing, kaleidoscopic sonic world, one that carries a strong emotional impact… Gentleness-Suddenness is described by Crossman as a “meditation on love and creativity”, settings of texts from Chinese opera tradition of Kunqu (The Peony Pavilion) and Judeo-Christian Biblical texts from Genesis, Psalms, Song of Songs and Revelation. Given those inspirational sources, it is not surprising that this piece is a tour-de-force.
The Music Trust, Australia, July 3, 2017
Gentleness-Suddenness (DVD)
Lotte Latukefu (mezzo-soprano), James Cuddeford (violin), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Ian Stevenson (sound diffusion), David Cubby (photographs), Simon Killalea (live-projection/pixel slicing of photographs), Matt Dewey and Andrew Dixon (sound recording), Iqbal Barkat (director) and Vincent Tay (cinematography); Filigree Films: ISBN: 978-0-646-93017-6, 2014; Gentleness-Suddenness; Distribution: Australian Music Centre
Double Resonances
Lotte Latukafu, Merlinda Bobis, Ian Munro, Jim Franklin, New Asia String Quartet, Jeanell Carrigan, Tom McGrath, Bernadette Balkus, Claire Edwardes Wirripang: Wirr017, 2008; Daragang Magayon Cantata, In Gentleness and Suddenness, Fierce Tranquillity, Back to the Centre, After-Resonance Blues, Double Resonances
Resophonica
Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman; Wirripang, Wirr026, 2009; Spotify 2015; Bunyip Blues, Resophonica, tik tik, Water Dragon (palimpsest), Snajo for Jylee, Pentaphonica, Off-the Rail Blues
Breath by Breath
Katia Beaugeais (saxophone); ABC Classic, 2021, Spotify 2021; Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter
Melbourne Composers’ League: Celebrating Twenty Years
Lotte Latukefu, James Cuddeford, Claire Edwardes, Michael Kieran Harvey; Melbourne Composers’ League, 2017, Spotify 2017, Spirit
Shadows and Silhouettes
Antonietta Loffredo; Wirripang, Wirr 047, 2012; Spotify 2015; Qi Colour from Hidden Resonances
Creative Explosion
Claire Edwards, James Cuddeford, Zubin Kanga (Offspring Ensemble); Wirripang, Wirr, 2009; Spotify 2015; Not Broken Bruised-Reed
Music of the Spirit
Claire Edwardes and Bernadette Balkus; Wirripang, Wirr011, 2008; Double Resonances
Jo-Wha (Oneness)
Ian Munro, Lotte Latukefu, Merlinda Bobis; Wirripang, Wirr004, 2006; Daragang Magayon Cantata
The Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music, Volume 1: A Violin and Piano Recital
Mark Menzies and Dan Poynton; Waiteata, 1999; Expression in Blue
Hammered: Australian Post-1970 Solo Piano
Jeanell Carrigan; Vox Australis, VAST027-2, 2000; …Back to the Centre
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