Nigel Butterley

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.

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1-4Laudes

I. Basilica of Sant’ Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna
II. The Apse, Norwich Cathedral
III. King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
IV. The Church of Reconciliation, Community of Taizé, Burgundy

 

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Sydney Alpha Ensemble.

From the album Silbury Air (ABC Classics, 2000).

5-6String Quartet No. 1

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Kreutzer Quartet.

From the album Unfold (Move Records, 2014).

7-11Meditations of Thomas Traherne

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6:37

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson (conductor).

From Nigel Butterley: From Sorrowing Earth (ABC Classics, 1992).

12From Sorrowing Earth25:49Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson (conductor).

From Nigel Butterley: From Sorrowing Earth (ABC Classics, 1992).

13-15Orphei Mysteria

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Halcyon.
From Waves III (Halcyon, 2021).

More excerpts from Apple Music

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1Uttering Joyous LeavesStephanie McCallum (piano).

From the album There Came a Wind Like a Bugle (Tall Poppies, 2001, TP142).

2-7There 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).

8The 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

In the Head the FireStreamable and/or downloadable podcast recording: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/read-and-watch/classic-australia/nigel-butterley-in-the-head-the-fire-1966/10448884