Kats-Chernin - Blue Silence, Complete Works for String Quartet (2012) [24bit FLAC]

BLUE SILENCE

Blue Silence is the first ever recording of the complete works for string quartet by Elena Kats-Chernin. Elena Kats-Chernin is possibly Australia's most popular composer. In a recent public poll of music from the past 100 years conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, her Eliza Aria was one of the highest-ranking Australian compositions. Eliza Aria is included on this new release. In the UK, it is particularly well-known as the theme music for Lloyds TSB's television campaign For The Journey that began in 2007 and continues today. As you can hear on this album, Elena's tuneful music combines lightheartedness with melancholy, blended with elements of cabaret, tango, ragtime, klezmer and Bach.

Acacia Quartet met Elena at a concert in 2011 and a great rapport was struck up. Acacia decided to learn all of Elena's quartet music (so far about 90 minutes, and counting), rehearse it extensively with her and perform it in concerts, then recording it under her supervision. Blue Silence was nominated for an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award in 2013.

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Product Description

Blue Silence features popular Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin's much-loved Eliza Aria for string quartet, which helped her win the 2003 Green Room and Helpmann Awards for her score to Wild Swans, a production by the Australian Ballet. The opening track 'Fast Blue Village 2' is based on Village Idiot her work about her son with schizophrenia, who also inspired the heartfelt, uplifting title track. Also featured is her well known Russian Rag (for years the theme music to Late Night Live on ABC Radio National with Philip Adams), as well as her tributes to Astor Piazzolla 'Mezmer' and 'Moody Tango'. Formed in Sydney in 2010, the Acacia Quartet comprises four remarkable musicians with diverse careers playing in orchestras and chamber ensembles the world over.

Elena Kats-Chernin:
Fast Blue Village

Eliza Aria

Moody Tango

Mezmer

Road To Harvest

Kwong Song

Luke's Painting

Second Door on the Left

From Anna Magdalena's Notebook
I. Polonaise 1
II. Musette
III. Aria
IV. Menuet 1
V. Polonaise 2
VI. Menuet 2

Russian Rag

Butterflying

Pink-Breasted Robin

Blue Silence

Blue Rose

Silver Suite
I. Burnished Silver
II. Silver Pearls
III. Silver Poetry
IV. Silver Eucalypt

Grotesk

Drinking Song

Charleston Noir

Naive Waltz

Slicked Back Tango