Dean / Doric String Quartet / Brett Dean / Bell Chamber Works CD

Australian composer and violist Brett Dean has won many prizes for his orchestral and chamber compositions, including the most renowned of them in 2009, the Grawemeyer Award. Today his works are performed all over the world and highly praised for their aplomb and power of expression as well as their ready accessibility to listeners. The three works featured here were composed between 2003 and 2013 and are all Premiere Recordings. They highlight the empathetic side of Dean: if Eclipse is an evocation of the refugees saved during the 'Tampa Crisis', the five movements of Epitaphs are individual obituaries for lost friends of Dean's. A viola player with the Berlin Philharmonic for fourteen years, Dean joins the Doric String Quartet in the latter, a string quintet with two violas.

1. Only I Will Know... in Memory of Dorothy Porter. Gently Flowing, with Intimate Intensity - Brett Dean/Doric String Quartet 2. Walk a Little Way with Me... in Memory of Lyndall Holt. Moderato Scorrevole - Still, Pensive - Poco a Poco Crescendo - Tempo I -... - Brett Dean/Doric String Quartet 3. Der Philosoph... in Memory of Jan Diesselhorst. Quasi Cadenza. Slow and Spacious, Misterioso - Un Poco Agitato - Molto Rallentando, Calmando -... - Brett Dean/Doric String Quartet 4. Gy÷rgy Meets the Girl Photographer... in Memory of Betty Freeman; Hommage a Gy÷rgy Ligeti. Fresh, Energetic - Brett Dean/Doric String Quartet 5. Between the Spaces in the Sky... in Memory of Richard Hickox. Hushed and Fragile - Un Poco Pi? Agitato - Ancora Pi? Agitato -... - Brett Dean/Doric String Quartet 6. Slow and Spacious, Secretive - Wild, with Abandon, Raw and Overtone Rich - Emphatic and Energetic, Later Becoming Increasingly Dreamy -... - Doric String Quartet 7. Unlikely Flight. Presto Nervoso - Subito Pi? Mosso - Suddenly Slower, More Relaxed - Subito Tempo I, Molto Energico - Pi? Mosso -... - Doric String Quartet 8. Epilogue. Slow and Spacious - Flowing, Un Poco Pi? Mosso - Doric String Quartet 9. Fast, Breathless - Allison Bell/Doric String Quartet 10. Hushed, Distant - Flowing - Serene, Intimate - Broad, Exalted - Allison Bell/Doric String Quartet 11. Fast, Agitated - Suddenly Slow, Vacant - Allison Bell/Doric String Quartet 12. Extremely Still - Sparse, Distant - Allison Bell/Doric String Quartet 13. Slow, Austere - Allison Bell/Doric String Quartet