Essential listening to compositions by Butterley, as selected by Elliott Gyger, author of The Music of Nigel Butterley, Volume 3 in Wildbird’s Australian Composers series.
Spotify playlist
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Track details
1-4 | Laudes
I. Basilica of Sant’ Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna |
6:16 |
Sydney Alpha Ensemble.
From the album Silbury Air (ABC Classics, 2000). Get it on iTunes. |
5-6 | String Quartet No. 1
I. |
10:08 |
Kreutzer Quartet.
From the album Unfold (Move Records, 2014). Get it on iTunes. |
7-11 | Meditations of Thomas Traherne
I. |
5:10 |
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson (conductor).
From Nigel Butterley: From Sorrowing Earth (ABC Classics, 1992). Get it on iTunes. |
12 | From Sorrowing Earth | 25:49 | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson (conductor).
From Nigel Butterley: From Sorrowing Earth (ABC Classics, 1992). Get it on iTunes. |
More excerpts from iTunes
Track details
1 | Uttering Joyous Leaves | Stephanie McCallum (piano).
From the album There Came a Wind Like a Bugle (Tall Poppies, 2001, TP142). |
2-7 | There Came a Wind Like a Bugle |
The Song Company, Roland Peelman (artistic director).
From the album There Came a Wind Like a Bugle (Tall Poppies, 2001, TP142). |
8 | The wind stirs gently |
Geoffrey Collins (flute), David Pereira (cello).
From the album There Came a Wind Like a Bugle (Tall Poppies, 2001, TP142). |
Podcasts from ABC Classic FM Rewind
In the Head the Fire | Streamable and/or downloadable podcast recording: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2013/01/10/3667040.htm |
Orphei Mysteria |
Streamable and/or downloadable podcast recording: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2013/01/10/3667039.htm |