This is a landscape in music. Gomersal lies on the edge of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, just west of Tanunda. Its gently rounded hills and valleys, shaped by Gomersal Creek, are overlooked by the higher hills of the Barossa Range to the southeast, which curve away further south to the distant Adelaide Hills. The sky feels unusually large and close here, particularly when bobs of fluffy cloud are floating overhead.

The piece is in 6 connected movements:

1. Sky and Land
2. Ngadjuri Country
3. German & Prussian Settlers
4. Pastorale
5. Bitumen
6. The Sky and the Land Endure

'Gomersal' was commissioned by Nat Schmaal in memory of her husband Ian, a direct descendant of the first German settlers of Gomersal in the 1850s.

This demo recording was made by Jakub Jankowski (cello) and David John Lang (piano).

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