Carl Vine

Essential listening to compositions by Vine, as selected by Rhoderick McNeill, author of The Music of Carl Vine, Volume 4 in Wildbird’s Australian Composers series.

We also encourage you to visit the website of composer Carl Vine http://www.carlvine.com/ to peruse a comprehensive set of links to albums on iTunes, Spotify, Tall Poppies and Buywell. In the catalogue of works on Vine’s website there are brief sound excerpts for many of the works.

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Track details

1-12Symphony No. 1 ‘Micro Symphony’

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 3

Celebrare Celeberrime

Symphony No. 4.2

Symphony No. 5 ‘Percussion’
Part I
Part II (Tarantella)

Symphony No. 6 “Choral” (1996)
Introduction
I. Enuma Elish (When On High)
II. Eis Gen Metera Panton (To The Earth, Mother Of All)
III. Eis Selenen (To The Moon)
IV. Eis Helion

10:54

19:18

26:04

5:08

19:25

–
20:09
4:57

–
1:41
5:54
7:12

7:31
6:32

Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir, Synergy, Stuart Challender, Edo de Waart (conductor).

From the album Carl Vine: Complete Symphonies 1-6 (ABC Classics, 2005).

13-19String Quartet No. 3

String Quartet No. 2

String Quartet No. 4

Knips Suite
4. Deco Knips (A Tango)
3. Knips In Brixton (l’homme en colère: “Knips On Rye, Hold The Bread”)
6. Knips del Fuego (A Finale)

String Quartet No. 5

15:47

14:50

16:54

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4:12
2:43

4:24

22:00

Goldner String Quartet.

From the album Carl Vine: String Quartets (ABC Classics 2012).

20-22Piano Concerto No. 1
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement		–
6:26
7:19
9:35		Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano).

From Carl Vine: Choral Symphony (ABC Classics, 2000).

23-33Oboe Concerto
I.
II.
III.CanzonaSuite from The Tempest
I. Overture
II. Prospero and Miranda
III. The Conspirators
IV. Ferdinand and Miranda
V. Prospero Relents
VI. Finale

Smith’s Alchemy

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6:09
5:17
5:5412:01-
2:20
4:42
3:07
6:20
3:25
2:41

18:45

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ola Rudner (conductor), Diana Doherty (oboe).

From Carl Vine: The Tempest (ABC Classics, 2004).

34-38Sonata For Piano Four-Hands
I. Prelude
II. Waltz
III. Deuces
IV. Meditation
V. Toccata		–
6:14
3:31
4:04
4:36
4:29		Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo.

From Four Hands: Australian Music for Piano (ABC Classics, 2016).

More excerpts from iTunes

Track details

Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2
Five Bagatelles
Red Blues
The Anne Landa Preludes		Michael Kieran Harvey (piano).

From the album Carl Vine: The Piano Music (1990-2006) (Tall Poppies, 2006, TP190).

Love Song
Miniature III
Elegy
Various.
From the album Carl Vine: Chamber Music Vol 1 (Tall Poppies, 1992, TP013).
Inner World
David Pereira (cello).
Carl Vine: Inner World EP; also from the album Carl Vine: Chamber Music Vol 2 (Tall Poppies, 2000, TP120).

Video

This Vimeo video includes an interview with the composer.