08-07-2025
Adelaide Festival: Ensemble Offspring
Have a stickybeak into a concert celebrating the variety and virtuosity of Australian birdsong from the 2024 Adelaide Festival.
Ensemble Offspring presents chamber music they've commissioned over the years from a flock of Australian composers fascinated by their virtuosic avian peers. Birds of all sizes, shapes, and colours, and their breathtaking songs and cries, are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for people from all walks of life, and in the world of music in particular they have inspired mimicry, mockery, and heartfelt homage from creative people who seek to capture and mirror their magic. Get your binoculars out and see what you can spot!
Recorded live in concert at the Adelaide Festival in Elder Hall on March 14, 2024 by ABC Classic. Producer Luke Altmann. Engineer Tom Henry.
Program
Fiona Loader: Lorikeet Corroboree
Brenda Gifford: Mungala
Nardi Simpson: Of Stars and Birds
Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose: Bitter Springs Creek 2014
Felicity Wilcox: People of This Place
Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose: N'Dhala Gorge 2014
Gerard Brophy: Beautiful Birds (movts 2 and 3)
Robert Davidson: Magpie Riff
Artists
Ensemble Offspring
Claire Edwardes (vibraphone, percussion)
Lamorna Nightingale (flute, alto flute)
Jason Noble (clarinet, bass clarinet)
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