Waye Meyer Walpole Wickham: Music for Woodwinds - COMPACT DISCS

Waye Meyer Walpole Wickham: Music for Woodwinds - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Music for Woodwinds

Artist:

Waye Meyer Walpole Wickham

Label:

Metier

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

809730860720

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2020-09-11

Number of Discs:

1

Geoffrey Allen was born in the UK in 1927 and after studying at Oxford moved to Australia where he set up a music publishing imprint and facilitated recordings of Australian music. He is still very active and is busy with several projects and compositions. His chamber music is widely neo-Romantic and rhapsodic, repeating motifs indifferent ways, constantly evading fixed tonality but retaining a soft and mellifluous melodic flow. Thus: his music is distinctive and strongly constructed but very attractive-post-modernist in the best sense. This collection of woodwind works begins with the 1964 Bassoon Sonata-more edgy, redolent of Prokofiev or Hindemith-through to the 2007 Fantasy Trio, polytonal, rhapsodic with beautiful textures. All works are receiving their first commercial recording. The four musicians are among Australian's finest-among many other activities, Waye and Meyer are principals with the West Australian Symphony; Walpole is an internationally-known freelance and Wickham is acknowledged to be among Australia's most pre-eminent accompanists.

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