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CLAIRE EDWARDES
PERCUSSION
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DISCOGRAPHY
photo Greg Barrett
Recordings by Claire Edwardes include
concertos, chamber works and solo repertoire. Some of her most prominent
recordings appear below:
2008 releases
*CD
Rosalind Page's Cool Black with Halcyon
www.move.com.au
*CD
Bruce Crossman Double Resonances
WIRR017 www.amcoz.com
*CD
Music of the Spirit WIRR011
www.australiancomposers.com.au
*CD
HUSH Volume 8 A Castle for All Music by Andrea Keller
www.birdland.com.au
Past
releases
*CD
COIL - Australian Solo Percussion
Music
www.tallpoppies.net
Coil is Claire's debut solo CD - it sparkles with the energy and vitality that characterise her live performances.
The centre-piece of the repertoire Claire has chosen for this recording is
Ross Edwards’
More Marimba Dances. His earlier Marimba Dances has become one of the world’s
most-played and most-loved percussion works. This second work contains all the
qualities that made the earlier piece such a favourite with both performers and
audiences alike.
Middle-generation Australian composers are further represented here by
substantial works from Gerard Brophy,
Andrew Ford
and
Andrew Schultz.
The individual compositional and rhythmic styles of these three composers is
very evident when they write for solo percussion. Each has written a strong
piece, with elements of both virtuosity and emotion.
Claire has also encouraged composers of her own age to write for her, and we see
this results in the works by Damien Ricketson and Dominik Karski - not wildly
outlandish works but pushing the conceptual and musical boundaries just far
enough.
When all that is done we can relax with the gentle minimalism of Mark Pollard’s
two short works - better than an aspirin!
This CD has been funded by the Music Fund of the Australia Council.
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Released in June 2006
on the Karnatic Lab label - the CD features works by Australian, Dutch and American composers.
"Over the past few years, award-winning Duo Vertigo has become famous for its
riveting and energetic performances, inspiring the creation of imaginative and
innovative new works by composers from all over the world. This disc of world
premiere recordings offers a selection of the strongest, strangest and most
gripping of those pieces, including urban tunes, exotic sound fields,
labyrinthine toccatas and sexy-pick up lines...."
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*The
Axe Manual is Gramophone's Critic's Choice for 2005.
Arnold Whittall has chosen The Axe Manual as one of his two
best discs of 2005. "For those of you who don't associate Sir Harrison
Birtwistle with the piano, or who've so far missed out on some of his best
recent music, I'm choosing a technically immaculate disc on which Nicolas Hodges
is the peerless executant. Perhaps the highlight of the disc is The Axe Manual
in which Hodges is joined by percussionist Claire Edwardes:
if dedicatee Emmanuel Ax ever records it he will have his work cut out to match
this version."
*The Axe
Manual was listed in Sunday Times (UK) as a "CD of the Year" for 2005.
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ABC Classics recording of Claire
Edwardes' solo and concerto repertoire to celebrate her winning Australia's
most prestigious classical music award in 1999. Composers include -
Schwantner, Donatoni, Ford & Klatzow. This CD is not available in shops but
promotional copies are available from Claire directly.
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Claire Edwardes
Percussion 