astra publications

cds - scores

Astra compact disc series, numbering seven CDs to date, provides concrete and lasting documentation of Astra's work and that of associate artists. Astra has also produced a highly acclaimed CD for New World Records in the USA of works by Johanna Beyer. Other publications include the performance text Murchitt - a Daydream by William Henderson.

Astra has produced several scores in an ongoing critical edition of Keith Humble's music, prepared at a high research level by editors Kim Bastin and Allan Walker. Ten scores in this series have appeared, with more in preparation, which have made the music of this important composer available in libraries and private collections in Australia and internationally.

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Astra CD 1

Threnody

MICHAEL KIERAN HARVEY, piano

Australian piano compositions: Bagatelles by Keith Humble and Carl Vine with short piano works by James Anderson, Andrew Byrne, Stuart Campbell, Michael Kieran Harvey, John McCaughey

track listing    Running time: 71'12"

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus  handling + postage

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Astra CD 2

Bagatelles

KEITH HUMBLE, piano

Bagatelles by Humble (first performance), Bartók and Liszt.
Live concert recordings from La Trobe University.

track listing     Running time: 39'54"

cost: $15 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

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Astra CD 3

murchitt, a daydream

Composed by LAWRENCE WHIFFIN,  A joint package with text by William Henderson.

With Merlyn Quaife, Tyrone Landau, William Henderson, Astra Choir and chamber ensemble, conducted by John McCaughey.

Winner of the Australian Music Centre's 1998 National Award for the Best Australian Composition.

Running time: 25'35"

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

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Astra CD 4

White and Black

KIM BASTIN AND JOAN POLLOCK, pianos

piano works for four hands by Ravel, Schoenberg, Debussy, Schumann.

track listing    Running time: 60'43"

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

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Astra CD 5

achilles falls…

1st ASTRA concert ARCHIVE CD

WOLPE, WEBERN, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS
chorus, song, melodrama, solo instrument, chamber music

THE ASTRA CHOIR with soloists & ensemble - Miwako Abe, violin - Tristram Williams, trumpet - conductor John McCaughey

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

CD 5 texts and translations (requires Adobe Reader)

Listen to Anton Webern: Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen (MP3, 2.5 MB)
Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen (streamed mp3)
Listen to Johannes Brahms: Song of Destiny (part) (MP3, 3.7 MB)

 

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Astra CD 6

first and last things...

2nd ASTRA concert ARCHIVE CD

BACH, BUSONI, KAGEL, HINDEMITH, LECHNER
also Friedel, Hufschmidt, Celan, Kurtag

THE ASTRA CHOIR with soloists and ensemble
conductor John McCaughey
piano duo Kim Bastin / Joan Pollock

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

Listen to J.S. Bach: Kyrie with Agnus Dei from Mass in F major (MP3, 4.5 MB)
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Astra CD7

Helen Gifford: Choral scenes, the Western Front, World War 1 (1999)

Poems by René Arcos, August Stramm, WIlfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling, Frederic Manning, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilhelm Klemm, Charles Vildrac, Edmund Blunden, Laurence Binyon, Guillaume Apollinaire, Vance Palmer.

The Astra Choir, with solo speakers, instrumental ensemble, percussion & keyboards, conductor John McCaughey

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

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NWR 80678-2

Johanna Beyer - Sticky Melodies

Choral and chamber music of Johanna Beyer, published by New World Records, the Recorded Anthology of American Music

This double-CD set, featuring world premiere recordings of all the works, is the first ever devoted entirely to the music of Johanna Magdalena Beyer (1888-1944), an important member of the New York City modernist group of composers that included Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Seeger and Carl Ruggles.

Astra Chamber Music Society including Astra Choir, soloists and ensemble, conductor John McCaughey

With extensive program notes by Larry Polansky and John McCaughey. .

Track listing

cost: $35 (2 CDs - inc GST) plus handling + postage

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SCORES

No. 1 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN arranged by KEITH HUMBLE, ETUDE Opus 25 No. 7 cello and piano (1979)
Score and part edited by Kim Bastin

cost: $11 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 2 WILLIAM HENDERSON, murchitt, a daydream
prose poem / performance text

(joint package with Astra CD 3)


No. 3 KEITH HUMBLE, Nocturne III for choir and piano
edited by Kim Bastin

cost: $15 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 4 KEITH HUMBLE, Eight Bagatelles for solo piano
Printed score and manuscript facsimile edited by Kim Bastin

cost: $25 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 5 FRANZ LISZT arranged by KEITH HUMBLE, Orpheus,
Symphonic Poem No. 4 violin, cello and piano (1986)
Score and parts, edited by Kim Bastin

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 6 KEITH HUMBLE, Eight Cabaret Songs, voice and piano
copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 7 KEITH HUMBLE, Sonata no. 3, piano solo
copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 8 HELEN GIFFORD, As Dew in Aprille (1955), for solo voice and piano
anon. 15th century carol, edited by Kim Bastin

cost: $5 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 9 KEITH HUMBLE, Sonata no. 4 (1990), piano solo
copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage


No. 10 KEITH HUMBLE, Three Nocturnes (1988), choir and piano
copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $25 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

No. 11 KEITH HUMBLE, Three Folios for Piano (1953-67)
copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin.

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 


No. 12 KEITH HUMBLE, Sonata in C Minor (1951), violin and piano, copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $25 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 


   

No. 13 KEITH HUMBLE, Five Pieces in Two Parts (1982), cello and piano, copied and edited with critical notes by Allan Walker

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage

 

   

No. 14 KEITH HUMBLE, Earliest Piano Works 1947-52, copied and edited with critical notes by Kim Bastin

cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage