Don Banks: Vocal and Chamber Music

Jenny features on two pieces on this album of music of Australian composer Don Banks - Five North Country Folk Songs (1953) for voice and piano and Tirade (1968) for mezzo-soprano, percussion, piano and harp. Both works are recorded here for the first time.

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“The Australian Don Banks, who died prematurely at the age of 56, was a significant figure in the musical life of Britain as well as that of his native country, and it is with real enthusiasm that I welcome this new recording of works by him that will surely be unknown to most.”
Ivan Moody for Gramophone

Catalogue No: TOCC0591
EAN/UPC: 5060113445919
Release Date: 01.07.2022

Released through Toccata Classics
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Peter Dart: Chamber Music and Songs

Jenny features in two song cycles - Four Short Songs (2017) for voice and piano and of heaven and earth (2020) for voice, flute, percussion and piano

Released 6.8.21 by Toccata Classics
Catalogue No: TOCC0592

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Painters sometimes talk about the intensity of the light they encounter in Australia. Peter Dart, born in Sydney in 1953, brings something of that brightness to his compositions, which are further animated by buoyant rhythms and a lively sense of humour, even mischief. They are, at the same time, anchored in a secure command of counterpoint, and given a timeless quality by his fondness for modal harmony. Most important of all, the technical mastery that gives these works their surefooted appeal is suffused with straightforward human warmth.

Artists: Jenny Duck-Chong, Sally Walker, Daniel Herscovitch, Alison Pratt, Brad Gill, Clemens Leske, Geoffrey Gartner

Alison Pratt, Brad Gill, Clemens Leske, Daniel Herscovitch, Geoffrey Gartner, Jenny Duck-Chong, Sally Walker