Richard Meale

Essential listening to compositions by Meale, as selected by Michael Hannan, author of The Music of Richard Meale, Volume 2 in Wildbird’s Australian Composers series. We’ll be adding several more works to this list in the near future.

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1 Clouds now and then 7:51 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor).

From Richard Meale: Cantilena Pacifica (ABC Classics, 2006). Get it on iTunes.
2 Homage to Garcia Lorca 19:39 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Dobbs Franks (conductor).

From Richard Meale: Cantilena Pacifica (ABC Classics, 2006). Get it on iTunes.
3-8 Incredible Floridas

I. Prelude, “Voyelles”
II. Interlude I, “Fêtes de la faim”
III. Sonata I, “Le bateau ivre”
IV. Interlude II, “Phrases – Veillées – Génie”
V. Sonata II, “Une saison en enfer”
VI. Postlude, “Une saison en enfer – Matin – Adieu”

  

6:02
1:03
8:14
5:08
7:19
2:35

 Seymour Group.

From Incredible Floridas (ABC Classics, 1990). Get it on iTunes.
9-10 from Voss

“I Am Behind You, Voss… Nothing Could Happen”
“I Am Looking At The Map Of My Hand”

  

4:53
1:59

 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor), Clifford Grant, Geoffrey Chard, Heather Begg, Robert Gard (voices).

From From Melba To Sutherland: Australian Singers On Record (Decca, 2016). Get it on iTunes.

More excerpts from iTunes

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1 Coruscations Michael Kieran Harvey (piano).

From The School of Natural Philosophy (Move Records, 2008, MD 3324).
2-6 String Quartet No. 2
 I. Tempo comodo
II. Scherzo quasi una Toccata
III. Cantilena triste
IV. Ruvido
V Cantilena Pacifica		 Australia Ensemble: Dene Olding, violin; Dimity Hall, violin; Irina Morozova, viola; Julian Smiles, cello.

From Richard Meale: The Australia Ensemble (Tall Poppies, 1996, TP048).