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COMPACT DISCS SIMPLY SONGS Wendy Dixon - soprano and David Miller - piano AustralianComposers.com.au (listing the following composers) 1. Love Song ( R J Stove) 2. Lullaby ( R J Stove) 3. Ballade of a Talked-Off Ear (R J Stove) 4. The Fig Tree (Horace Keats) 5. White Wind (Horace Keats) 6. Nature's Changes (John Wayne Dixon) 7. Evening (John Wayne Dixon) 8. New Feet Within (John Wayne Dixon) 9. Epigram II (Stephen Yates) 10. Epigram IV (Stephen Yates) 11. Become Complete (Michael Hugh Dixon) 12. All Fall Down (Houston Dunleavy) 13. In Good Stead (Michael Hugh Dixon) 14. Elegy (Brennan Keats) 15. The Hour of the Parting (Brennan Keats) 16. Fascination (Hugh Dixon) 17. Tranquil Repose (Hugh Dixon) 18. Concentration (Hugh Dixon) 19. Motion (Hugh Dixon) 20. Mermaids (Horace Keats) 21. The Song of the Little People (Horace Keats) 22. My Heart was Wandering in the Sands (Horace Keats) 23. This Moment (Sylvia Rice) 24. Praise the Lord (Brett McKern) 25. Healed (Mark Matthews) 26. An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Stephen Yates) 27. The Trouble with Geraniums (Stephen Yates) ************************************************************************************** SONGS FROM AUSTRALIA Wendy Dixon - soprano and David Miller - piano AustralianComposers.com.au (listing the following composers) 1. Monkey and Turtle (Trad./Leek) 2. Love Me Sweet (Vine) 3. Come Sleep (Glanville-Hicks) 4. Morton Bay (Trad./O’leary) 5. Dinah’s Song (Rofe) 6. Bless This House (Brahe) 7. Waltzing Matilda (Cowan/O’Leary) 8. Lullaby (Stove) 9. An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Yates) 10. The Trouble with Geraniums (Yates) 11. Dreams at Eventide (Keats) 12. My Dark-eyed Acushla (Keats) 13. O Yellow, Yellow Sweet (Tregaskis) 14. I Will Build my House in the Water (Keats) 15. The Lamb (Keats) 16. Love’s Secret (Keats) 17. Plucking the Rushes (Keats) 18. Love Song (Stove) 19. Epigram I (Yates) 20. Epigram II (Yates) 21. Epigram III (Yates) 22. Epigram IV (Yates) 23. Nature’s Changes (Dixon) 24. Columbine (Keats) 25. Sea Wraith (Keats) 26. The Stars Turn (Sculthorpe) 27. Evening (Dixon) **************************************************************************** A LITTLE LOVELY DREAM All works composed by Hugh Dixon AustralianComposers.com.au Wendy Dixon -soprano, Lisa Wynn-Allen and Michael H Dixon - French horn, David Miller - piano. 1 A Little Lovely Dream (Sarojini Naidu) 2.57 2 My True Love Hath My Heart (Sidney) 1.49 3 Tiger, Tiger (Blake) 3.12 Five Shakespeare Songs 4 Sweet Music's Power 2.14 5 Fairy Song 1.08 6 Fear No More 3.28 7 Titania's Lullaby 3.29 8 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 3.24 9 Horses on the Camargue (Campbell) 9.06 10 The Blue Wrens and the Buther-bird (Wright) 5.21 Nocturnes 11 To-night the winds begin to rise (Tennyson) 2.42 12 High Tide (Untermeyer) 1.51 13 To the Moon (Shelley) 1.08 14 Nightingales (Bridges) 4.06 15 Tears (Wang Seng-ju) 1.03 16 Mad Song (Blake) 1.36 17 The Mystic's Prayer (Sharp) 1.18 18 Daybreak (Longfellow) 1.08 Songs of Mystic Jade (from "A Lute of Jade") 19 Return of Spring 2.54 20 Set Free 1.51 21 Fascination 2.32 22 Tranquil Repose 1.53 23 Despondent 3.53 24 Concentration 3.07 25 Motion 2.39 **************************************************************************** ECHO - The Songs of Horace Keats Wendy Dixon, soprano, John Pringle, baritone, Marina Marsden, violin, David Miller, piano. AustralianComposers.com.au 1 Yellow Bracken 1'3 2 In What Other Places Do You Live? 2'57 3 Love's Secret 2'20 4 The Orange Tree 5'05 5 Sea Wraith 2'48 6 Galleons 1'44 7 We Sat Entwined 5'08 8 Sun After Rain 3'43 9 I am Shut Out of Mine Own Heart 5'29 10 White Heather 2'14 11 Of Old, On Her Terrace at Evening 3'45 12 The Trespass 2'21 13 Echo 4'07 14 Columbine 2'05 15 The Point of Noon 3'19 16 Moonlit Apples 3'20 17 Spring Breezes 2'16 18 Fear 1'44 19 Heaven Haven 2'35 20 Versicle 1'10 21 Over the Quiet Waters 2'51 22 Goldfish 2'50 23 Plucking the Rushes 2'13 24 The Fishing Pools 2'24 25 Once I could Sit by the Fire Hourlong 3'12 26 The Roads Beside the Sea 2'27 27 Drake's Call 2'50 **************************************************************************** Grevillea Ensemble - The Seasons A selection of works performed during the 2002 Recital Series on the theme, The Seasons Summer Hutchens: 'A Summer Evening' (violin and piano) 6:02 Walton: 'Through Gilded Trellises' (soprano and piano) 3:30 Bernstein: 'Silhouette' (soprano and piano) 2:05 Kreisler: 'Lotosland' (violin and piano) 5:25 Autumn Faure: 'Automne' (soprano and piano) 2:11 Strauss: 'Allerseelen' (soprano and piano) 3:03 Strauss: 'Schön sind, doch kalt' (soprano and piano) 2:20 Poulenc: 'Air romantique' (soprano and piano) 1:19 Elgar: 'Allegro' from Violin Sonata (violin and piano) 8:22 All Seasons Sculthorpe: 'The Stars Turn' (soprano, violin and piano) 5:59 Winter Argento: 'Winter' (soprano and piano) 1:42 Rodrigo: 'Olas gigantes' (soprano and piano) 2:50 Hutchens: 'Elegy' (violin and piano) 7:13 Respighi: 'Nevicata' (soprano and piano) 3:02 Spring Schubert: 'Im Frühling' (soprano and piano) 4:01 Beethoven: 'Spring' Sonata in F, Op 24 Movement 1 (violin and piano) 7:25 Rachmaninov: 'Before my window' (soprano and piano) 2:04 Rachmaninov: 'Spring Waters' (soprano and piano) 1:56 Total time 1:10:41 Recording Engineer: Peter Bell **************************************************************************** Grevillea Ensemble Live 1999 - 2000 BRAHMS AND THE RUSSIANS - SEPTEMBER 1999 1. Brahms: Botschaft (soprano and piano) 2:11 2. Brahms: An die Nachtigall (soprano and piano) 3:27 3. Brahms: Regenlied (soprano and piano) 4:07 4. Brahms: Violin Sonata in G major Op. 78 Movement 3 (violin and piano)8:19 5. Prokofiev: Second Melodie for Violin and Piano Op. 35Bis (violin and piano) 2:39 6. Tchaikovsky: Nightingale (soprano and piano) 3:03 7. Prokofiev: Fifth Melodie for Violin and Piano Op. 35bis (violin and piano) 2:46 8. Musorgsky: A Joke (soprano and piano) 1:57 LATIN LEGENDS - MARCH 2000 9. Respighi: Mattino di Luce (soprano and piano) 3:59 10. Respighi: Pioggia (soprano and piano) 1:50 11. Respighi: Sonata in B Minor (1917) Movement 2 (violin and piano) 10:34 12. Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza (violin and piano) 5:05 13. Rodrigo: ¿Con qué la lavaré (soprano and piano) 2:11 14. Montsalvatge: Cuba dentro de un piano (soprano and piano) 3:58 15. Villa-Lobos: A Menina e a Cançâo (soprano and violin) 2:12 NORTHERN LIGHTS - AUGUST 2000 16. Grieg: Jeg elsker dig (I love you) (soprano and piano) 2:58 17. Grieg: Violin Sonata in G Major Op. 13 Movement 3 (violin and piano) 5:33 18. Sibelius: The First Kiss (soprano and piano) 1:54 19. Nielsen: Irmelin Rose (soprano and piano) 1:51 Recording Engineer: Kerry Joyner Recorded for 2MBS-FM