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The Offering\u00a0<\/em>is a new album release from the\u00a0Flinders Quartet and pianist Benjamin Martin.<\/p>\n Flinders Quartet is one of Australia\u2019s most poplar and highly respected chamber music ensembles. One of its aims is to further the development of Australian chamber music by commissioning and premiering new works by Australian composers: all four pieces on this disc were commissioned or premiered by the quartet in pursuit of this goal.<\/p>\n Elena Kats-Chernin\u2019s The Offering<\/em> is the composer\u2019s first piece for piano quintet. A kaleidoscopic work, it draws on elements and forms from different musical eras including the Baroque and Ragtime. Richard Mills\u2019 quartet Glimpses from My Book of Dada<\/em> is full of idiosyncratic observations of life from neighbours dancing in the rain to wombats, from composer\u00a0Dulcie Holland\u2019s aversion to fifths, to a surreal dream of Graham Koehne\u2019s mother; it is a piece vivid in imagination and vivid in its descriptions.<\/p>\n Peter Sculthorpe\u2019s eighteenth and final string quartet is arguably his most poignant, an evocative depiction of the Australian landscape that he loved so well and its suffering under a changing climate. Considered one of the greatest modern chamber works, it is by turns, dramatic, heroic and filled with longing. Like Sculthorpe’s piece, Tom Henry\u2019s Scenes From a Poet’s Life<\/em> pushes the possibilities of the string quartet form, as the poet of the title struggles to attain the paradise tantalisingly glimpsed in the process of writing.<\/p>\n The tracks:<\/p>\n Elena Kats-Chernin:\u00a0The Offering \/I. Allegro con spirito\/\u00a0\u00a0II. Andante\/\u00a0\u00a0III. Vivace scherzo\/\u00a0\u00a0IV. Tranquillo\/\u00a0\u00a0V. Allegro energetico<\/p>\n Richard Mills:\u00a0String Quartet No. 4:\u00a0Glimpses from My Book of Dada\/\u00a0\u00a0I. The Circumspect Ibis\/\u00a0\u00a0II. The Rise of the Airheads in Public Life\/\u00a0III. R\u00eave circulaire du wombat\/\u00a0\u00a0IV. Rare Umbrella Dance of Molly Hourigan\/\u00a0\u00a0V. Scheming and Latt\u00e9 Drinking\/\u00a0. VI. The Octopus Quadrille\/\u00a0\u00a0VII. Dulcie Holland Says No\/\u00a0\u00a0VIII. Anti Tango from Berlin as\u00a0Premonition of Invasion by\u00a0Russian Herbalists\/\u00a0\u00a0IX. Prayer for Nonna Thora<\/p>\n Peter Sculthorpe:\u00a0String Quartet No. 18\/\u00a0\u00a0I. Prelude\/\u00a0\u00a0II. A Land Singing\/\u00a0\u00a0III. A Dying Land\/\u00a0\u00a0IV. A Lost Land\/\u00a0\u00a0V. Postlude<\/p>\n Tom Henry:\u00a0Scenes from a Poet\u2019s Life<\/p>\n The musicians:\u00a0Flinders Quartet –\u00a0Shane Chen violin\/Nicholas Waters violin\/\u00a0Helen Ireland viola\/\u00a0Zoe Knighton cello\u00a0with Album available 12 October 2018 | Digital album | ABC 0028948176311<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Offering\u00a0is a new album release from the\u00a0Flinders Quartet and pianist Benjamin Martin. Flinders Quartet is one of Australia\u2019s most poplar and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-25465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"\n
\nBenjamin Martin piano [tks 1-5]<\/p>\n