Antill - Corroboree, An Outback Overture | Naxos 8570241

Antill - Corroboree, An Outback Overture

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570241

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th June 2008

Contents

Artists

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

Works

Antill, John

An Outback Overture
Corroboree

Artists

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

About

Australian composer John Antill is best remembered for his exuberant, outstandingly successful and ever-popular ballet Corroboree. Drawing on material Antill notated in 1913 at an Aboriginal Corroboree (a type of ritual ceremony) in Botany Bay and on his subsequent research on Aboriginal music, Corroboree is widely recognized as a landmark in Australian music history.

Antill’s Outback Overture is a charming concert opener, reminiscent of Stravinsky’s rhythmic energy, British folk melodies, Copland’s harmonic influence and Grainger’s humour.

Corroboree:
1. Welcome Ceremony
2. Dance to the Evening Star
3. A Rain Dance
4. Spirit of the Wind
5. Rising Sun
6. The Morning Star
7. Procession of the Totems and Closing Ceremony

John Anthill’s ballet Corroboree (1946), is an Aboriginal dance-ceremony that celebrates--via a series of totemic dances--the inter-dependence of animals and Man…[it] shimmers with primitive energies we associate with Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos… [there is an ] elegance of line and manic authority in the percussion parts.” - Audiophile Audition

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