Artist: The Australian Voices, Camerata

Title: Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra - Rafael Karlen: Sinking Cities

Year Of Release: 2024

Label: ABC Classic

Quality: flac 24bits - 48.0kHz

Total Time: 01:00:57



Tracklist



01. Sinking Cities: No. 1, Rising Slowly

02. Sinking Cities: No. 2, The Moment

03. Sinking Cities: No. 3, Twelve Thousand Years

04. Sinking Cities: No. 4, Swim through Windows

05. Sinking Cities: No. 5, The River Above

06. Sinking Cities: No. 6, After Another

07. Sinking Cities: No. 7, Done/Undone

08. Sinking Cities: No. 8, Strange Parade

09. Sinking Cities: No. 9, Brick Walls

10. Sinking Cities: No. 10, Everything Changes

11. Sinking Cities: No. 11, Sax Interlude

12. Sinking Cities: No. 12, Footsteps End

13. Sinking Cities: No. 13, Build/Rebuild

14. Sinking Cities: No. 14, Future for Some



Quote:This album takes us to the Turkish town of Hasankeyf: once one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, home of empires and civilisations, now deep underwater as part of a project to dam the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. How do you articulate the heartbreak of erasing 12,000 years of history and the drowning the homes of tens of thousands of people?



Composer Rafael Karlen and lyricist Pearly Black chose to focus on questioning what is gained, what is lost and how we choose what to preserve and remember. This thought-provoking and profoundly moving work is performed by two of Australia’s finest contemporary music ensembles: the instrumentalists of Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra and the brilliant singers of The Australian Voices, with the plaintive saxophone of Rafael Karlen weaving its spell in and around the orchestra and choir.