Threnody

murchitt: a daydream

"Achilles Falls...": Wolpe, Webern, Beethoven, and Brahms

The Astra Choir with soloists and ensemble, conducted by John McCaughey (Astra concert archive - Astra CD 6)

First and last things

From 3 Nocturnes for choir, piano and instruments (ad lib)

Keith Humble - Nocturne 1

The final Chorus Mysticus from Liszt's Faust Symphony, arranged for The Astra Choir, soioists and chamber ensemble and conducted by John McCaughey. Recorded at a performance on 4 Dec 2011 at Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne.

Franz Liszt - Chorus Mysticus from Faust Symphony

Bagatelle I

Toccata DNA

Bagatelle 3

Bagatelle II

Bagatelle III

Bagatelle IV

Eight Bagatelles - I

anna murchitt entered heaven

what fresh hell is this (until again)

and he, hanging by a thread

mister murchitt woke up short

Flee Off On Gentle Vessels

Solo Piece For Trumpet

Melodrama_ Agmont In Prison

Piece For Trumpet & 7 Instruments

Second Piece For Violin Alone

Holderlin Song No.1

Nenia - Song Of Lament

LA-Menatzeach - To The Dancemaster

Ferruccio Busoni (1922) - Variations on the Chorale Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' and quadruple fugue on the last two Contrapunctus from Bach's Art of Fugue Two Pianos

Fantasia Contrappuntistica

Kyrie

Mark Pollard - Krebs 1983 II

Lawrence Whiffin - Piano Sonata No.3 2011 I.

Keith Humble - Sonata No1 1959 Scherzando Adagio Molto

Tom Henry - Piano Sonata 2006 Moto Perpetuo

CHORAL SCENES - THE WESTERN FRONT, WORLD WAR I (1999) - Helen Gifford

Lou Harrison - A SOLEMN PROCESSIONAL (1963)

Schoenberg - Chamber symphony no. 2, Op. 38b II

Jeffrey Pressing - CONSTELLATION (1987)

Schoenberg - Chamber symphony no. 2, Op. 38b I

Martin Friedel - DANCE OF THE BEE (2015)

Buciu - Aidi Nani, Puiu Mami (Astra concert, Bucharest, 2014)

Astra: First and last things ... Bach, Busoni, Kagel, Hindemith, Celan, Lechner

Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' (J.S. Bach)

Der Gerechte kommt um (J.S. Bach, c. 1725)

Engführung/Stretto, opening (Paul Celan, 1958)

Apparebit repentina Dies Part 1 (Paul Hindemith, 1947)

St John Passion part 1 (Leonhard Lechner, 1593)

The Mutation (Mauricio Kagel, 1971)

Resonet in Laudibus (School of Turku, 1582)

From Mass in F major.
The Astra Choir with soloists and ensemble, conducted by John McCaughey (Astra concert archive - Astra CD 6)

Kyrie & Agnus Dei (J.S. Bach, c. 1740))

Epigramm (Wolfgang Hufschmidt, 2001)

What is best in the new (Martin Friedel, 2001)

Cat Pieces for piano solo by Lawrence Whiffin. Played at an Astra concert on 5 May 2013 by Joan Pollock. http://www.astramusic.org.au/archive/browse/concert/5099

Astra concert: 2013-05 Whiffin

Lawrence Whiffin - Cat Pieces (1988)  4. Catophony

Keith Humble Piano Sonata no 3 played by Michael Kieran Harvey at an Astra concert 21 Aug 2005, www.astramusic.org.au/archive/browse/concert/5136

Keith Humble - Piano Sonata No.3

Contemporary Romanian choral music performed by The Astra Choir, Erkki Veltheim (violin), Elizabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano), Kim Bastin (organ), directed by John McCaughey.
Concert performance on 2nd June 2019 at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church, Middle Park, Melbourne, Australia.
Texts and full program notes at www.astramusic.org.au/sites/default/…tes/2019-3.pdf

Choral Poem 12 From Eminescu by Radu Paladi

ASTRA IS MUSIC - for voices, instruments and other media. 
From a long history over 80 years in choral and orchestral music, the journey continues through music of the times, its relation to other forms of art and to the wider world.

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