Songs for the Shadowland – vocal music of Paul Stanhope
Cantillation, Jane Sheldon, Ironwood, Sydney Chamber Choir, Gondwana Voices & Southern Cross Soloists
ABC 476 3870

Exquisite, evocative vocal music from a rising star in Australian music. Paul Stanhope is a Sydney musician who is Musica Viva’s Featured Composer for 2010. This album brings together some of his loveliest works for choir and for solo voice, with a variety of accompaniments. As Gordon Kerry writes in the CD booklet, ‘He does not seek to ‘paint’ or evoke specific locales, so much as to give a powerful sense of being at ocean’s margin, in the hush of a rainforest, or by a lagoon shimmering in the moonlight, and to explore human emotions and feelings in those geographical contexts.’

Sea Chronicles
Songs for the Shadowland
Lux aeterna
Three Geography Songs
Songs of Innocence and Joy
Steal Away (arr. Paul Stanhope)

Bach Album – Oboe Concertos, Sinfonias & Sonatas
Diana Doherty oboe with Ironwood
ABC 476 3673

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote sublime music for the oboe; here it is performed by Australia’s leading early music experts Ironwood, featuring our own world-renowned Diana Doherty, one of our most charismatic performers (and one of ABC Classics’ best-selling artists!).

This uplifting album is enhanced by a bonus DVD. Interspersed with footage of the recording sessions is an interview with Diana Doherty in which she talks about the music and her experience of playing and recording it.

Concerto in D minor for Oboe, BWV1059R
Concerto in D major for Oboe d’amore, BWV1053R
Concerto in A major for Oboe d’amore, BWV1055R
Sinfonia in F minor from Cantata BWV12, ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’
Sinfonia in C minor from Cantata BWV21, ‘Ich hatte viel Berkummernis’
Sonata in G minor, BWV1030b

"You can well understand that they have performed internationally with some of the most distinguished period ensemble in existence when you hear their world class accompaniment in this recording."

Critic's Pick *****
Fine Music 2MBS

W.A. Mozart Quintet in C minor KV406 (516B)

In 2006, Ironwood presented an exciting Mozart Festival at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, celebrating the chamber music of Mozart. The programs featured Mozart’s string quartets and quintets, Mozart’s famous piano quartet and arrangements of the Sinfonia Concertante and the Wind Quintet for strings as well as a special treat for the opera lovers, with excerpts from “The Magic Flute”!

Rachael Beesley violin
Julia Fredersdorff violin
Nicole Forsyth viola
Valmai Coggins viola
Daniel Yeadon cello

Live and unedited from the Mozart Festival, December 2006
Recording and Mastering: Patrick Mullins