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William Barton: Birdsong at Dusk | ABC Classics ABC4810962

William Barton: Birdsong at Dusk

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Label: ABC Classics

Cat No: ABC4810962

Barcode: 0028948109623

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 6th October 2014

Contents

Artists

William Barton (didgeridoo, guitar, vocals)
Delmae Barton (vocals)
John Rodgers (violin)
Kurilpa String Quartet

Works

Barton, William

7/8 Not Too Late
Birdsong at Dusk
Didge Fusion
Dreamtime Duet (Delmae Barton)
Improvisation
Petrichor

Artists

William Barton (didgeridoo, guitar, vocals)
Delmae Barton (vocals)
John Rodgers (violin)
Kurilpa String Quartet

About

Accolades have been poured on Australia’s leading didgeridoo player and composer William Barton on a global basis. William’s release of Sculthorpe’s Requiem (ABC4765692) in 2007 garnered a Gramophone Editors Choice, whilst his last release in 2012, Kalkadungu (ABC4764834), was listed by ArtsDesk in the UK as one of their top 12 classical releases for 2012 and in the same year won the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album in Australia.
 
Barton’s new offering, 'Birdsong at Dusk', presents an album that seamlessly fuses Aboriginal indigenous music and classical music. William explains: “I was inspired to write Birdsong at Dusk at a friend's beach house in Mango Avenue in Mackay, in far north-western Queensland. The waves of the ocean were floating upon the sand while the birds were singing their song. With a piano close to the verandah, I began to write: overlooking the inlet on a low tide, the sun drifting to meet the sky, I listened to the birdsong at dusk.
                                                                                               
William has a regular presence in the Northern Hemisphere as a performer. He premiered Sculthorpe’s Requiem at the Litchfield Festival in 2007, performed at the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, has jammed with violinst Lara St John on the chaconne from Bach’s second partita and appeared as a soloist with the London and Berlin Philharmonic after which conductor Sir Simon Rattle said ‘It's a sound I had heard before, but never with that sort of technique. The possibilities are extraordinary. This is a great man’.
 
William played his first classical concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through his collaborations and projects, William aims to present the virtuosic potential of his instrument and the richness of his heritage and Australian culture to audiences throughout the world. William hopes that by infusing indigenous aboriginal sounds with ‘western’ music, audiences will look beyond the exotic antiquity of the instrument and respect the considerable technique, stamina and study, equal to that demanded of any conventional classically trained professional musician.

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