ABC Classics celebrates the 60th birthday of pre-eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin with a 10-CD boxset, bringing together iconic works with pieces recorded especially for this collection. Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan composers working today, with a prolific catalogue of works for theatre, ballet, orchestra, chamber ensemble and piano. Her dramatically vivid, brilliantly scored and often propulsive music communicates a mixture of lightheartedness and lingering melancholy, combining strong rhythmic figures with elements of cabaret, tango, ragtime and klezmer.
This 10-CD collection celebrates more than two decades of iconic recordings, starting with Elena Kats-Chernin’s first album of the ABC Classics label, released in 1996.
Composer featured on the long-running Lloyds Bank advert, Elena Kats-Chernin has been variously described as: ‘Vibrant and seductive’ (The Guardian), ‘Magical’ (Berliner Morgenpost), ‘Kats-Chernin’s characteristic imaginative space might be likened to an old dance, heard in a surreal dream, interrupted by outbursts of outrageousness.’ (Sydney Morning Herald)
Artists
Stephanie McCallum (piano), Jane Sheldon (soprano), Ian Munro (piano), Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Elena Kats-Chernin (piano), Sally Whitwell (piano), Peter Morrison (cello), Brett Dean (viola), Anna McDonald (violin), Alice Evans (violin), Claire Edwardes (marimba, percussion), Jason Noble (bass clarinet), Viney–Grinberg Piano Duo (piano duet), David Montgomery (percussion), Stephen Phillips (violin), Justine Favell (piano), Laura Chislett (flute), Thomas Jones (violin), Daniel Del Pino (piano), Janice Preece (harp), Anna Stoddart (flute), Louise King (cello), The Idea Of North (vocals), Nick Begbie (percussion), Lior (vocals), Diana Doherty (oboe), Goldner String Quartet (string quartet), Alexandre Oguey (cor anglais), Leila Winsbury (narrator), Matilda Rintoul (narrator), James Crabb (accordion), Genevieve Lacey (descant recorder, tenor recorder, bass recorder, sopranino recorder), Flinders Quartet (string quartet), Donna Coleman (piano), Marshall McGuire (harp), Robert Nairn (double bass), Caro Vigilante (double bass), Kees Boersma (double bass), Matthew McDonald (double bass), Timothy Dunin (double bass), Kirsty McCahon (double bass), Alex Henery (double bass), Max McBride (double bass), Catherine Hewgill (cello), Frank Celata (clarinet), Christina Leonard (saxophone), Mark Robinson (percussion), Julian Smiles (cello), Dale Barltrop (violin), Daniel Yeadon (cello), Lisa Stewart (violin), Rachael Beesley (violin), Nicole Forsyth (viola), Lorelei Dowling (bassoon), Amelia Farrugia (soprano), Guy Noble (narrator), Samuel Merrick (bass), Patrick Baker (baritone), Adele Kozak (soprano), Chloe Lankshear (soprano), AJ America (mezzo-soprano), Elias Wilson (tenor)
Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Gondwana Voices, The Birralee Blokes, Carisma, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburg Choir, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian World Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ironwood, Luminescence Chamber Choir, David Stanhope, Ola Rudner, Benjamin Northey, Lyn Williams, Paul Holley, Richard Tognetti, Paul Dyer, Alexander Briger, Bram Tovey
