Kouvaras: Instrumental Music, Chamber Works and Songs Vol. 1

Kenealy, Justin;
Barcan, Linda;
Green, Coady

TOCC 0729

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.

Works:

•Linda Kouvaras: Three St Kilda Sketches for solo piano
• Linda Kouvaras: Night Pieces: Reflections after COVID-19 for soprano saxophone and piano
• Linda Kouvaras: Art and Life, Song-Cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Linda Kouvaras: Shoalhaven Nightpainters for solo piano

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Toccata Classics

30-04-2024

5060113447296