We're celebrating Australian music with the release of two albums featuring the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra – recorded in Federation Concert Hall.
Both albums have been released by ABC Classic and are available on major streaming platforms.
Spin Dances: Orchestral Music by Paul Stanhope
A sharp-witted, colour-rich new orchestral album that blends satire, Baroque echoes and atmospheric lyricism. Performed by the TSO under the baton of Benjamin Northey, the album brings together three major works that demonstrate composer Paul Stanhope’s flair for orchestral colour, rhythmic bite and vivid musical storytelling.
The music uses humour to explore the notion of ‘political spin’: the art of storytelling, deflection and reinvention.
The album closes with Cloudforms, a work of striking atmospheric beauty. Strongly impressionistic in character, the piece follows in the lineage of Debussy’s Nuages and Takemitsu’s A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden. Slow-moving, ethereal and hypnotic.
Women of Note – Volume 8
The centrepiece of this album is the TSO's recording of Elena Kats‑Chernin’s concerto Ancient Letters, with pianist Tamara‑Anna Cislowska. Inspired by personal letters written 1700 years ago by an abandoned woman on the Silk Road near Samarkand, Kats‑Chernin creates vivid scenes of trade, travel, longing and distant love.
'We're very pleased to see the release of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Ancient Letters as part of the excellent Women of Note series,' says TSO Director of Artistic Identity Simon Rogers.
'The TSO was proud to be involved in the process of developing the work from a piece for solo harpsichord to a piece for solo piano and orchestra, alongside soloist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and the composer. Ancient Letters was a hit with our audience and we look forward to this being heard by an even wider audience across Australia on ABC Classic.'
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