℗ 2024 Toccata Classics, London
| Released | May 3, 2024 |
| Duration | 1h 14m 19s |
| Record Label | Toccata Classics |
| Catalogue No. | TOCC 0729 |
| Genre | Classical (Chamber) |
Linda Kouvaras: Instrumental Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Volume One (feat. Justin Kenealy, Linda Barcan)
Coady Green, Justin Kenealy, Linda Barcan
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Three St Kilda Sketches for solo piano
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1.1
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No. 1 Andante
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green |
5:02 | |||
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1.2
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No. 2 Dark, manic, turbulent
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green |
2:52 | |||
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1.3
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No. 3 Animato
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green |
4:22 | |||
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Night Pieces: Reflections after COVID-19 for soprano saxophone and piano
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1.4
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I. Shelter in Place
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Justin Kenealy |
4:44 | |||
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1.5
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II. Isolation
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Justin Kenealy |
6:03 | |||
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1.6
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III. Reach-Out
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Justin Kenealy |
4:42 | |||
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1.7
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IV. Elegy
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Justin Kenealy |
4:26 | |||
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1.8
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V. Hope
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Justin Kenealy |
5:35 | |||
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Art and Life: Song-Cycle for female voice and piano
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1.9
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I. Sleeping Girl
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
4:09 | |||
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1.10
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II. Lullaby for Kyle
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
2:32 | |||
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1.11
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III. Woman’s Predicament
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
6:36 | |||
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1.12
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IV. Party Lines and Deaf Ears
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
1:43 | |||
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1.13
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V. Art and Life
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
6:53 | |||
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1.14
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VI. Distant Lullaby
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green; Linda Barcan |
2:05 | |||
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1.15
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Shoalhaven Nightpainters for solo piano
Linda Kouvaras; Coady Green |
12:35 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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As with many other Australian composers, the music of Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) has a strong sense of wide-open spaces, expressed in lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling Lisztian piano textures and atmospheric echoes of French Impressionism. In this first album of a series presenting all of her instrumental works, chamber music and songs written since 1991, she also addresses two major contemporary issues, with a duo for saxophone and piano exploring the human response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a song-cycle confronting domestic violence from a woman’s viewpoint.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Toccata Classics Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.21 -7.55 to -0.71 | -25.08 -31.10 to -21.15 | -21.02 -25.70 to -17.90 | 13 11 to 16 | |
| 1 | No. 1 Andante | -4.71 | -31.10 | -25.7 | 16 |
| 2 | No. 2 Dark, manic, turbulent | -1.08 | -24.08 | -19.6 | 14 |
| 3 | No. 3 Animato | -1.10 | -21.15 | -18.4 | 12 |
| 4 | I. Shelter in Place | -1.85 | -25.82 | -22.2 | 13 |
| 5 | II. Isolation | -4.24 | -25.84 | -22.1 | 12 |
| 6 | III. Reach-Out | -4.17 | -25.74 | -22.0 | 12 |
| 7 | IV. Elegy | -7.55 | -28.55 | -24.8 | 11 |
| 8 | V. Hope | -1.09 | -23.26 | -19.7 | 14 |
| 9 | I. Sleeping Girl | -0.71 | -25.01 | -20.7 | 14 |
| 10 | II. Lullaby for Kyle | -0.71 | -25.81 | -22.2 | 15 |
| 11 | III. Woman’s Predicament | -0.71 | -23.27 | -18.5 | 14 |
| 12 | IV. Party Lines and Deaf Ears | -0.98 | -22.50 | -18.6 | 13 |
| 13 | V. Art and Life | -0.80 | -24.91 | -20.0 | 15 |
| 14 | VI. Distant Lullaby | -0.96 | -22.24 | -17.9 | 11 |
| 15 | Shoalhaven Nightpainters for solo piano | -2.46 | -26.94 | -22.9 | 15 |