Making Waves is delighted to share this month’s playlist, String Quartet Waves!
As an ensemble, the string quartet has been codified such that is a genre unto itself. Perhaps this is due to its typical designation for the most intimate and considered of thoughts, from Beethoven to Shostakovich, and Schoenberg to Crumb. Yet despite its age, it is a genre that is ever contemporary. Championed by quartets such as Kronos Quartet and JACK Quartet, the genre is filled with brilliant new compositions.
In Australia, the string quartet has found another home, in the creations of Sculthorpe and Westlake, and in the work of ensembles such as the Australian String Quartet, Flinders Quartet and Acacia Quartet. As such we are excited to share a collection of contemporary Australian string quartets, filled with contrasting moods, energies and complexities. We hope you can sit back and enjoy this months playlist.

String Quartet Waves (March 2019)

String Quartet No. 1 in D minor by Connor D'Netto
recorded live @ Melancholia 2 - 19 Oct 2014

violin 1 Annabelle Swainston
violin 2 Matilda Watkins
viola Kieran Welch
violoncello Joshua Rivory

String Quartet No. 1 in D minor

HYPHAE (2024) for full orchestra. Performed by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dmitry Matvienko. Recording provided courtesy of ABC Classic.

Hyphae(2024)

Commissioned by the Silo Collective and performed by the Enigma Quartet, this is my recording of the world premiere performance of my String Quartet, "The First Movement" on November 17, 2015. 

String Quartet: The First Movement [Live recording]

Selected songs from our new album 'Life' - OUT NOW

iTunes: apple.co/1nGrN8t
Spotify: spoti.fi/1Ku8CsY
THE GOVT. KNOWS : youtu.be/4zH9Zca1vRM

Pizza

'The Fine Art of Conversation' (2015) for string quartet performed by the Huon Quartet.

More info and sheet music at: https://angusdavison.com/

'The Fine Art Of Conversation' for string quartet (2015)

14/08/2017 - Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia
Performed as apart of ‘Scratching the Surface: A selection of works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection’

Performed by:
Jennifer Barrington - Soprano
Shaun Lee-Chen - Violin I
Jasmine Middleton - Violin II
Rachel Hicks - Viola
Jeremy Garside - Violoncello
Conducted by: James Ledger.

Recipient of the Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize for Music Composition - 2017

Stephen de Filippo's Album

Two Pieces - Soprano & String Quartet

Points of Infinity (2017)
For viola and playback

Performer: Beth Meyers

Points Of Infinity

What is 'space'? Where is 'nohwere'? How do we understand these concepts? How do we cultivate 'nowhere' and 'space'? These are questions that I considered when approaching this work. Into Ethereal Space responds to the exhibition title 'Nowhere=Space' by exploring contrasting peaceful, meditative sections and flurried rhythmic sections. This piece invites you to enter into a space of contrasts and to explore, contemplate and consider what 'nowhere' and 'space' might mean.

This piece was commissioned for the opening of 'Nowhere=Space' at 107 Projects. This is a live recording of the premiere performance, 11 July 2018.
Performed by Quart-Ed: Caitlin Sandiford, Sarah Qiu, David Tocknell and Karen Cortez.

July 2018.

Inside the Mosaic

Into Ethereal Space

3. You Cannot Be Serious

Recording of world premiere performance of Biome, by Alex Turley, commissioned and performed by Forest Collective, conducted by Evan Lawson.
Recorded at the Australian Institute of Music, November 15 2018.

http://www.forestcollective.com.au/gala
http://alexturley.com/

Alex Turley - Biome

A new album from Third Coast Percussion and Devonté Hynes. Available October 11 from Cedille Records

Perfectly Voiceless

Inspired by the way colours refract and separate as light passes through glass, reflected in the slow movement and close harmonies of the four voices.  

Voices - Ffion Edwards, Ana Isabel Beard Fernandez, Alice Bell, Emma Roberts
Conductor - António Breitenfeld Sá Dantas

Performed in the Unheard Concert Series at Burley Fisher Books, 5th July 2019.

Shaded Glass - Four Voices [2019]

Weeds

All Star but They Don't Stop Comin' but It's a Phasing Piece a la Steve Reich

BUBBLES (2019)
For Double Bass and Ensemble

Composed by: Valentin Jost
Commissioned by: Network For New Music, Philadelphia, USA
Performed by: Robert Black and Network For New Music Ensemble


Program note:

This work, dedicated to Robert Black, explores a light, fun, playful, innocent, and childlike musical space. The entire Solo Double Bass part, as well the rest of the sound world in general, is filled with many kinds of unique bubbles, floating and popping all around.

JOST - BUBBLES

Performed at Canberra Symphony Orchestra's "Power of One" Concert, 2019 National Portrait Gallery

Clapham, Rhyan - Drum Dreamer (WP)*written for Claire Edwardes

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String Quartet No. 1 in D minor

Connor D'Netto

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