Home Thoughts from Abroad

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"HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD" JADCD 1028
Works by: Robert Allworth, Lawrence Bartlett, Betty Beath, Ann Carr-Boyd, Dulcie Holland, Eric Gross, Mary Mageau.
Duration: 69.10

Track list and performance details:

Track 1. Ann Carr-Boyd - HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD (1987)
words by Jean Delbridge (see below for lyrics)
Macquarie Baroque Players: Sue Elliott, Mezzo Soprano; Heather Stewart & Anita Beuthien, Violins; David Jackson, Viola, Tenor Viol; Ted Granlund, Philippa Jackson, Cello; Belinda Webster, Flute; Susan Erickson, Harpsichord.

HOME THOUGHTS
Lawrence's maquis of gods and ghosts
Have held the headland at Thirroul
Since I was three...

FROM ABROAD
Tinker, trader, traveller, crusader,
Emissary, king: every weary pilgrim knows
That loneliness turned homeward lonelier grows.

The flooding tide that stormed their headland every year
Tore rotting timbers from the jetty on south beach.
And Lawrence's dark gods took cover in the cold coast
rosemary

Did Richard 's Christian heart, like mine,
Find solace in the beat
Of lonely Arab music in a midnight Paris street?

Traveller, you knew the best, and worst, of East and West,
And all their rich diversity of silence and of sound;
What did you feel you'd found of either, in Thirroul?
Or did those empty sunny days sink through your hearts
Like ripples in a pool?
Extracts from "Home Thoughts From Abroad" - Poem by Jean Delbridge

Track 2. Robert Allworth - PASTORALE (1992)
Ann Carr-Boyd - Harpsichord
Recorded At The Summer Home Of Rosemary Parle, Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia.

Track 3. Mary Mageau - CONCERT PIECES (1984)
The Darling Downs Trio: Andrew Lorenz, Violin; Gary Williams, Cello; Wendy Lorenz - Piano

Track 4. Ann Carr-Boyd - SUITE FOR FLUTE & HARPSICHORD (1992) Comprising: Prelude, Badinerie, American Dream, Toccata.
Edgars Kariks, Flute; Ann Carr-Boyd - Harpsichord.
Recorded At The Summer Home Of Rosemary Parle, Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia.

Track 5. Lawrence Bartlett - SEARCHLIGHTS & BONFIRES (1988)
Lawrence Bartlett - Organ of St. Andrews Cathedral, Sydney.

Track 6. Betty Beath - POEMS FROM THE CHINESE
Poems by Kenneth Rexroth from "100 Poems From The Chinese" (1979)
A cycle of four songs with instrumental interlude. Settings of poems by Kenneth Rexroth from "100 Poems From The Chinese" (1979)
1.BANQUET AT THE TSO FAMILY MANOR, Tu-Fu (713-770)
2. AN EXCUSE FOR NOT RETURNING THE VISIT OF A FRIEND, Mei Yao Ch'en (1002-1060)
3.MORNING, Chu Shu Chen (c1200)
4. INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE
5. MOON, FLOWERS, MAN', Su Tung P 'o (1036-1101)
English translations, Kenneth Rexroth. Copyright 1971 by Kenneth Rexroth.
AII Rights Reserved. Used with permission of the Publisher, New Directions Publishing Corp.
Jan Delpratt - Soprano; Floyd Williams, Clarinet; Gary Williams, Cello; Betty Beath, Piano.

Track 7. Robert Allworth- PRELUDE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST (1991)
Lawrence Bartlett - Organ Church Of All Saints, Woollahra, Sydney.

Track 8. Dulcie Holland - IN THE DREAMTIME (1973) & THE HUNT (1973)
Muriel Cohen, Piano.

Track 9. Eric Gross - MUSIC FOR WILTON (1991) Occasional Music For A Horse Named Wilton, commissioned by & dedicated to Dr. Margaret Evans.
Christine Sattler,Flute; Ingrid Penrson,Clarinet; Fiona McNamara,Bassoon; Susan Blake,Cello; Adrian Hooper, Mandolin; Paul Hooper, Mandolin, Joyce Bootsma, Mandola, Barbara Hooper, Guitar. Conducted by Eric Gross

Track 10. Robert Allworth -- THE LONE WRECK (1990) for solo Mandolin - Paul Hooper, mandolin