The Domestic Sublime

Available as a CD from Katy Abbott and the Australian Music Centre, or digitally on iTunes

Released by Leeward Side Records 2013

Digital release by ABC Classics 2014

The Domestic Sublime - The Vocal Music of Katy Abbott (LS 1302)

Halcyon performs No Ordinary Traveller (2006) - song cycle for mezzo, clarinet, percussion and piano. Note: the full song cycle features on Sunburnt Aftertones.

CD also features performances by Greta Bradman, Leigh Harrold, and the Song Company.

Artists: Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano, Diana Springford clarinet, Daryl Pratt percussion, Jo Allan piano

Ye Banks and Braes

In a collection of folksong arrangements, this recording features Cantillation - an ensemble of fine voices with the speed, agility and flexibility of a chamber orchestra. The performance is accompanied by Sinfonia Australis and conducted by Antony Walker and Paul Stanhope.

Jenny sings with Cantillation and features as soloist on the tracks ‘Deep River’ and ‘The Minstrel Boy’

ABC 476 8036

Available on iTunes, Buywell and JB Hifi. A PDF of the liner notes is available here.

 

Monteverdi L'Orfeo

ABC 476 8030

Available on iTunes. To hear clips, including a clip of Jenny visit Pinchgut.

Orfeo is the often counted as the first true opera, though there were a number before this. Monteverdi chose a fitting subject for his masterwork, and it's a subject very dear to opera composer's hearts.

This recording is taken from a live Pinchgut performance in 2004.

Mark Tucker - Orfeo, Sara Macliver - La Musica / Messagiera / Proserpina, Damian Whiteley - Charon/Pluto, Paul McMahon - Pastore / Eco / Plutone, Brett Weymark - Pastore / Eco / Plutone, Penelope Mills - Euridice, Josie Ryan - Ninfa, Anna Fraser - Speranza, Philip Chu, Jenny Duck-Chong, Craig Everingham, Belinda Montgomery, Dan Walker, Raff Wilson - Pastores

Orchestra of the Antipodes
Conductor: Antony Walker

Fauré Requiem

For this ABC Classics recording, the Australian choral group Cantillation and the Sinfonia Australis, under the direction of Antony Walker, perform the 1893 chamber orchestra version of Gabriel Fauré's masterful Requiem, Op. 48, along with two less significant but beautiful choral works, the Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11, and La Naissance de Vénus, Op. 29.

Jenny features in the opening of La Naissance de Venus

  1. Requiem

  2. La Naissance de Venus (world premiere recording - orchestral version)

  3. Cantique de Jean Racine

Cantillation, Sara Macliver, Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Orchestra: Sinfonia Australis
Conductor: Antony Walker

ABC 472 045-2
Available on iTunes.