From multi-award winning Australian composer Paul Stanhope come these world premiere recordings of three powerful and beautiful string quartets. Rhapsodic and elgiac outer sections frame a pizzicato dance riff in Elegies and Dances; String Quartet No. 2 is a reflection on the refugee experience: persecution and flight, but also arrival and new beginnings. Quartet No. 3 From the Kimberley explores aspects of the story of the Indigenous resistance hero Jandamarra: hunting and being hunted; grief and loss; and hope born from the unbreakable connection between people and country. Brilliantly performed by the acclaimed Australian String Quartet on a matching set of 18th-century Guadagnini instruments.
Tracks
1. String Quartet No. 1 'elegies & Dances'
2. String Quartet No. 2: I. Prelude
3. String Quartet No. 2: Ii. Flight
4. String Quartet No. 2: Iii. Dirge (Variations)
5. String Quartet No. 2: Iv. Scherzo
6. String Quartet No. 3 'from The Kimberley': I. Tracks & Traces
7. String Quartet No. 3 'from The Kimberley': Ii. Dirrari Lament
8. String Quartet No. 3 'from The Kimberley': Iii. River-run