A skilled pianist himself, Carl Vine has created a body of piano music which occupies a central place in the contemporary repertoire through its scintillating command of sonority and space as well as its versatility and wit. All these characteristics are evident in this stylish 22-minute sonata from 2007, commissioned by the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and constructed in four vivid sections: fantasia, rondo, variations and presto.
A skilled pianist himself, Carl Vine has created a body of piano music which occupies a central place in the contemporary repertoire through its scint...
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine's secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work, written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese, is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s) and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an...
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine's secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a ...
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine's secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work, written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese, is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s) and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an arc...
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine's secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a ...
Inspired by Oliver Sacks's fascinating exploration of atypical mental states Five Hallucinations, Carl Vine's Trombone Concerto was premiered in October 2016 by Michael Mulcahy and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan. Each movement of the 20-minute concerto is based on a different hallucination, from the ominous `Doppelganger' to the rather absurd `The lemonade speaks.'
Inspired by Oliver Sacks's fascinating exploration of atypical mental states Five Hallucinations, Carl Vine's Trombone Concerto was premiered in Octob...
Full score Carl Vine's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind - the others being his first two piano sonatas. Its composer describes it as `a conscious and continuous tribute to the Piano Concerto as a medium and historical entity', a fact most apparent in the slow movement, with its long melodic lines evoking both Ravel and Bach. This 25-minute concerto is cast in the familiar three-movement form, with fast outer movements framing a central slow movement. The outer movements share some material (particularly...
Full score Carl Vine's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind - the ...
Carl Vine's Concerto for Orchestra was premiered to critical acclaim by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in October 2014. Its composer describes the way the 20-minute work (like his recent Piano Trio The Village) `evolves organically through a chain of episodes to create a web of melodies and harmonies that are related but not identical. This network of ideas is tied together by strong lateral bonds but remains fluid and flexible, creating a series of fleeting glimpses - what Prokofiev called visions fugitives - abstract patterns glimpsed in the half-light or imagined behind clouds.'
Carl Vine's Concerto for Orchestra was premiered to critical acclaim by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in October 2014. Its composer describes...
Carl Vine's Piano Sonatas are a crucial contribution to the piano repertoire. Each one carries the essence of pianistic traditions through Vine's own stylistic voice. The latest in the series, his Piano Sonata No.4 is comprised of three seamless movements of high character. Aphorisms opens the sonata with strings of fast lines and arpeggios articulating a set of materials that don't seem to interact as much as coexist. This leads straight into the pensive second movement, Reflection, and finally Fury which closes the sonata with relentless and violent energy. The premiere was...
Carl Vine's Piano Sonatas are a crucial contribution to the piano repertoire. Each one carries the essence of pianistic traditions through Vine's own ...