Music by the Australian Dean brothers.
The clarinettist Paul Dean, born and raised in Brisbane, is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading musicians. He is active as a soloist, chamber musician, composer and artistic director of several ensembles. In this programme we hear him as a composer in his Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra and a number of his Lockdown Miniatures, written during the covid pandemic. As a clarinettist he performs Beggars and Angels by his brother, the composer Brett Dean.
Playlist
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Paul Dean – Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
Prelude (Arrival of the Queen of Tarragindi)
Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra 2 – Adagio (Big Deal Waltz)
Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra 3 – Allegro (Building a Better Banana)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch -
Paul Dean – Lockdown Miniatures No. 8
A Celebration of Fifty in Fifty Days
Ok – so I am dying, look after Mum
In Memory of 316, 370
Justin Beere, clarinet / Aidan Boase, piano -
Brett Dean – Beggars and Angels
Paul Dean, clarinet / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz
CD ABC Classics 476 160 – 6
