Indies & Idols (Live In Concert) Australian Chamber Orchestra & Richard Tognetti

• Witold Lutosławski (1913 - 1994): Overture for Strings (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019):
• 1 Lutosławski: Overture for Strings (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 05:29
• Bryce Dessner (b. 1976): Réponse Lutosławski:
• 2 Dessner: Réponse Lutosławski: I. Resonance (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:49
• 3 Dessner: Réponse Lutosławski: II. Preludio (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:57
• 4 Dessner: Réponse Lutosławski: III. Des Traces (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 04:10
• 5 Dessner: Réponse Lutosławski: IV. Warsaw Canon (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:07
• 6 Dessner: Réponse Lutosławski: V. Residue (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:42
• Sufjan Stevens (b. 1975): Suite from Run Rabbit Run:
• 7 Stevens: Suite from Run Rabbit Run: I. Year of the Ox (Arr. Michael Atkinson. Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 02:58
• 8 Stevens: Suite from Run Rabbit Run: II. Enjoy Your Rabbit (Arr. Michael Atkinson. Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:04
• 9 Stevens: Suite from Run Rabbit Run: III. Year of Our Lord (Arr. Michael Atkinson. Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:46
• 10 Stevens: Suite from Run Rabbit Run: IV. Year of the Boar (Arr. Michael Atkinson. Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 02:53
• Krzysztof Penderecki (1933 - 2020): Three Pieces in Baroque Style:
• 11 Penderecki: Three Pieces in Baroque Style: I. Aria (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 02:13
• String Quartet No. 1 (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019):
• 12 Penderecki: String Quartet No. 1 (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 05:50
• Jonny Greenwood (b. 1971): Suite from There Will Be Blood:
• 13 Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood: I. Open Spaces (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:13
• 14 Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood: II. Future Markets (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 02:37
• 15 Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood: III. HW / Hope of New Fields (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 03:09
• 16 Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood: IV. Proven Lands (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 01:53
• 17 Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood: V. Prospector's Quartet (Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2019) 02:29
• Total Runtime 58:19

Info for Indies & Idols (Live In Concert)

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and The National’s Bryce Dessner were both influenced by great composers, and the development of their musical language is a very personal journey. On this recording you’ll hear their music alongside the source of their inspiration.

Bryce Dessner’s Réponse Lutosławski is a homage to Lutosławski, whom he credits with having illuminated the way forward in his own musical development. Similarly, Jonny Greenwood described himself as a ‘fan-boy’ when meeting Poland’s most eminent living composer, Krzysztof Penderecki. His enthusiasm for Penderecki’s music has introduced it to a new generation of music lovers. The suite from Greenwood’s film score, There Will Be Blood, is foreboding, hopeful and beautifully evocative.

Richard Tognetti arranged Szymanowski’s soaring String Quartet No.2 for string orchestra, and it remains one of his favourite works. Fusing neoclassicism and Polish folk music, Szymanowski pushes the colour palette of a string quartet to its limit, creating a neo-romantic, even expressionistic, sound world. In the hands of the ACO this sound world reaches new heights.

“Stimulating, challenging and brilliantly performed, Indies and Idols was a mind-bending, ear twisting, richly rewarding musical experience like few others.” – The Australian

“A concert of showstoppers” - Limelight

Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, director, violin

Australian Chamber Orchestra
Founded by cellist John Painter in 1975, the 17-piece string orchestra lives and breathes music, making waves around the world for explosive performances and brave interpretations. Led by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti since 1990, the ACO embrace celebrated classics alongside new commissions, and adventurous cross-artform collaborations. They perform more than 100 concerts across Australia each year, all while maintaining an international touring schedule that finds them in many of the world’s greatest concert halls including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Frankfurt’s Alte Oper.

The Orchestra regularly collaborates on projects with musicians and other artists who share their ideology, and co-create unique, hybrid productions that have toured around the world. The Orchestra also has an active recording program across CD, vinyl and digital formats, and film or stream many concerts live for audiences around the world to enjoy.

The ACO also support the development of young talent around Australian through a series of educations programs designed to inspire and enable the next generation of musicians and music lovers.

This album contains no booklet.