Stanhope: Songs For The Shadowland

Universal Classical Album of the Month, May 2010

ARTISTS

Cantillation, Jane Sheldon soprano, Ironwood, Sydney Chamber Choir, Gondwana Voices, Southern Cross Soloists

TRACK LISTING

All works composed by Paul Stanhope Sea Chronicles Songs for the Shadowland Lux aeterna Three Geography Songs Songs of Innocence and Joy
Steal Away (arr. Paul Stanhope)

Exquisite, evocative vocal music from a rising star in Australian music. Paul Stanhope is a Sydney musician who is Musica Viva’s Featured Composer for 2010. This album brings together some of his loveliest works for choir and for solo voice, with a variety of accompaniments. As Gordon Kerry writes in the CD booklet, ‘He does not seek to ‘paint’ or evoke specific locales, so much as to give a powerful sense of being at ocean’s margin, in the hush of a rainforest, or by a lagoon shimmering in the moonlight, and to explore human emotions and feelings in those geographical contexts.’