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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topAstra CD 1 ThrenodyMICHAEL 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
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Astra CD 2 BagatellesKEITH HUMBLE, piano Bagatelles by Humble (first performance), Bartók and Liszt. track
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Astra CD 3 murchitt, a daydreamComposed by LAWRENCE WHIFFIN, A joint package with text by William Henderson. With Merlyn Quaife, Tyrone Landau, William Henderson, Astra Choir
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Astra CD 4 White and BlackKIM BASTIN AND JOAN POLLOCK, pianos piano works for four hands by Ravel, Schoenberg, Debussy, Schumann. track
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Astra CD 5 achilles falls…1st ASTRA concert ARCHIVE CD WOLPE, WEBERN, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS cost: $20 (inc GST) plus handling + postage CD 5 texts and translations (requires Adobe Reader) Listen to Anton Webern: Entflieht
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Astra CD 6 first and last things...2nd ASTRA concert ARCHIVE CD BACH, BUSONI, KAGEL, HINDEMITH, LECHNER THE ASTRA CHOIR with soloists and ensemble 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 MelodiesChoral 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. . cost: $35 (2 CDs - inc GST) plus handling + postage |
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No. 1 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN arranged by KEITH
HUMBLE, ETUDE Opus 25 No. 7 cello and piano (1979) |
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No. 2 WILLIAM HENDERSON, murchitt, a
daydream |
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No. 3 KEITH HUMBLE, Nocturne III for choir
and piano |
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No. 4 KEITH HUMBLE, Eight Bagatelles for
solo piano |
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No. 5 FRANZ LISZT arranged by KEITH HUMBLE,
Orpheus, |
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No. 6 KEITH HUMBLE, Eight Cabaret Songs,
voice and piano |
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No. 7 KEITH HUMBLE, Sonata no. 3, piano
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No. 8 HELEN GIFFORD, As Dew in
Aprille (1955), for solo voice and piano cost: $5 (inc GST) plus handling + postage |
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No. 9 KEITH HUMBLE, Sonata no. 4 (1990), piano solo |
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No. 10 KEITH HUMBLE, Three Nocturnes
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