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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1-4 Laudes

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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3:28
4:32
4:06

Sydney Alpha Ensemble.

From the album Silbury Air (ABC Classics, 2000). Get it on iTunes.

5-6 String Quartet No. 1

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10:08
6:01

Kreutzer Quartet.

From the album Unfold (Move Records, 2014). Get it on iTunes.

7-11 Meditations of Thomas Traherne

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5:10
3:59
4:59
3:32
6:37

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