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he earlier Swoon collections provedthat great music can play us like a violin. And if we respond withsympathetic vibrations, its because thegreat composers are, after all, talking about us our longings, our desire for romance, guide to life, love, lust and other follies attempts to put these feelings into words,clustered into sections that correspond withlove affair that doesnt work out: Love, Lust,cess and Obsession, Triumph, Joy, Anger,adness, Freedom and Release, Hope andeace. This collection includes some of themusic alluded to in the text and follows thesame sequence of feelings. As ever, we cannever take enough rides on the rollercoaster of romance.When Love begins, cue orchestra ... orat least listen for some violins. Hectorerlioz was the arch-Romantic composerwho wrote two of his four symphoniesabout the feeling. His Aeolian Harp is an atmospheric early work included in après -love sequel to the Fantastic Lélio, or The Return to Life Schubert and Orff add delicatecommentary to this sweetest phase. OrffsIn trutinais an oasis of peace in theotherwise thumping ina Burana based on the erotic and bibulous musingsof mediaeval monks. As the book suggests,ust can lead to Excess and Obsession (notartist), exampled by the lives of Leonardernstein and Percy Grainger. The energytheir output is of course tempered by Sw serene constraint; even the banks and braes slow motion.agner is the hero of the Triumphchapter, at his most sublime in the closingmoments of his final music-theatre epic, Pa . Swoon? This is a passport to heaven.The flipside in scale of such valedictorymusic is the usually joyful, Chabriers Idyllefor solo piano, which the composer PoulencVivaldis The Four Seasons around the block as often as ... well, thefour seasons. Great music, even whenfamiliar, always provides solace. Why itshould have brought me to tears severalpiped through the soundsystem of a remote Spanish restaurant willemain a mystery to the señoritaoffered me a bread roll. Gratitude,perhaps? Thank you, Antonio. The habitually angry Beethoven tempershis wrath in the slow movement of his Loveandare thetwo wingssoul ECTOR iano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 athétique before our musical chart of aomance enters the more melancholyterritory of sadness, release and farewell.as our folly been unique? We like to thinkmoments when we feelourselves beyond the reach of anyconsolation. As Madame Merle says inenry James ThePortrait of a Lady , ... Iam afraid there are moments in life wheneven Schubert has nothing to say to us. Wemust admit, however, that they are ourworst. This anticipation of gloom isevident in Wojciech Kilars music for JaneCampions film of James novel, subverting before me chaikovskys TheNutcracker ballet, Mozartstouching lovers farewell from his opera Così fan tutte , and Lee Ritenours tear-stained Lagrima pull you back from the brink.After a souvenir of a pilgrimage I tookto the rain-soaked region of Galicia innorth-western Spain from the groupilladoiro, we progress to the business of the broken hearts repair. Australiancomposer Ross Edwards gives us hope inmusic that seems to have sprouted from theloam in some isolated gully. We are back innature; we are of the earth. His antras 24-hour international telecast of New Yearsay 2000, with singer and instrumentalistssending their song aloft from atop the sailsof the Sydney Opera House. This is theworks first commercial release.till in the sky, the mediaeval abbessildegard of Bingen likened herself to afeather on the breath of God, in a famousmetaphor. Her music, both seraphic andsensual, would bring our emotional cycle toan end were it not for the wonderfullyhuman likelihood of our giving Love and itsattendant follies another chance. Johnwlands invitation to Come again ultimately prove to be irresistible. So, too,will this collection. We will all live towoon another day.Christopher Lawrence SWOONING OJCIECH KILAR (b. 1932) 1 ologue: My life before me 406 (from The Portrait of a Lady ) tudio Orchestra tepan Konicek, conductor From the album The Portrait of a Lady London 455 011-2 1996 The Decca Record Company Limited, LondonHECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869) 2 The Aeolian Harp 301 (from Lélio , ou Le retour à la vie, Op. 14b) ontreal Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit, conductor From the album lioz: Lélio, Tristia, Symphonie fantastique Decca 458 011-2 2001 The Decca Music Group LimitedFRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) arr. Johann Kaspar Mertz 3 tändchen (Serenade) 358 (from Schwanengesang , D957) hi-ichi Fukuda, guitar From the album Schubertiana Denon CO-78978 1995 Denon Records/Nippon Columbia Co.,Ltd. 4 trutina (Within my minds uncertainty) 205 (from ina Burana ) onne Kenny, soprano elbourne Symphony Orchestra conductor From the album Something Wonderful ABC Classics 454 511-2 1996 Australian Broadcasting Corporation LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) Arr. Irwin Kostal 5 ne Hand, One Heart 217 (from est Side Story ) Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianos From the album stein: Symphonic Dances and Songs from West Side Story CBS MK45531 1989 CBS Records, Inc. 6 Ye banks and braes 252Ptephen Layton, conductor From the album At T Hyperion CDA66793 1995 Hyperion Records Ltd, LondonRICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) 7 Höchsten Heiles Wunder! (Miracle of supreme salvation) 515 (from P ) ienna Boys Choir ienna State Opera Chorus ienna Philharmonic Orchestra eorg Solti, conductor From the album agner: Parsifal Decca 417 143-2 1973 The Decca Record Company Limited, London 8 I 344 (from Dix pièces pittoresques ) tephanie McCallum, piano From the album Per ABC Classics 461 798-2 2001 Australian Broadcasting CorporationANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) 9 Largo 221 (from The Four Seasons Winter ,R Alan Loveday, violin cademy of St Martin-in-the-Fields ir Neville Marriner, conductor From the album aldi: The Four Seasons Argo 414 486-2 1970 The Decca Record Company Limited, LondonWIG VAN BEETHOVEN(1770-1827) 0 Adagio cantabile 538 (from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Pathétique) erard Willems, tuart & Sons piano From the album eethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas ABC Classics 465 758-2 2000 Hammerklavier Productions Pty LtdPYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) ! Pas de deux 458 (from The Nutcracker , Op. 71) ational Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Bonynge, conductor From the album Tchaikovsky: The 3 Ballets Decca 460 411-2 1974 The Decca Record Company Limited, London @ LEE RITENOUR (b. 1952) Lagrima Lee Ritenour, guitar Da piano tudio Orchestra wo Worlds Decca 467 132-2 2000 Universal Classics Group HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179) ^ O spectabiles viri (O clear-sighted men) nsemble for Early Music, Augsburg ildegard von Bingen: Celestial Stairs Christophorus CHR 77205 1997 MusiContact GmbHJOHNDOWLAND (?1563-1626) & Come again: sweet love doth now invite arbara Bonney, soprano acob Heringman, lute From the album airest Isle Decca 466 132-2 2001 Decca Music Group Limitedotal Playing Time:6656* Specially recorded for this albumOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) £ oave sia il vento (May the wind be gentle) 233 (from Così fan tutte , K588) Rachel Yakar, soprano Alicia Nafé, mezzo-soprano Carlos Feller, baritone chestra of the Drottningholm Court Theatre conductor From the album ozart: Così fan tutte iseau-lyre 414 316-2 1985 The Decca Record Company Limited, LondonMILLADOIRO $ O Voo da Pomba (Flight of the Dove) illadoiro adas de Estraño Nome een Linnet Records GLCD 3118 1997 Green Linnet Records, IncOSS EDWARDS (b. 1943) % awn Mantras* dney Childrens Choir ane Sheldon, soprano atthew Doyle, didjeridu m Franklin, shakuhachi Rixon Thomas, cor anglais an Cleworth and Brian Nixon, percussion yn Williams, conductor 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Compilation Christopher Lawrence, obert Patterson, Lyle Chan oduct Manager Anna-Lisa Whiting astering scar Gaona (Studios 301) Booklet Design agecorp Pty Ltd Cover image ngres: dalisque with a Slave 1839-40 (oil on canvas). Fogg Art Museum,ard University Art Museums, USA awn Mantras was recorded especially for ecording Producer and Editor irginia Read ecording Engineer Allan Macleanecorded 3 October 2001 in the Eugene Goossensall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney 1 , 2 , 7 , 9 , ! , @ , £ , & licensed fromniversal Music Australia 3 licensed from Denon Records / 5 licensed from Sony Music Australia 6 licensed from Hyperion Records $ licensed from Green Linnet Records ^ licensed from MusiContactABC Classics would like to thank Jonathon Bird,Lois Schoeck, Denis McNamara, Richard Davies,us Meher-Homji, Kim Townsend (Universalusic Group), Ted Perry, Eleanor Wilson, Timarry (Hyperion Records), Andy Schwartz (SonyClassical, New York), Sarah Reardon (Sony Music,ustralia), Chris Teskey (Green Linnet), Makikoubo (Nippon Columbia), Alison Johnston andLinda Siemon. 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