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"a fruitful re-engagement with tonality... three meticulously crafted works... Performances are superb throughout. ***** 5 stars" (William Yeoman, Limelight Magazine)

 

Featuring world premiere chamber recordings of one of Australia’s finest composers, Through a Glass Darkly features compelling performances from the Australian String Quartet (now known as the Grainger Quartet), Darryl Poulsen (horn), Paul Wright (violin) with the composer at the piano.

 

Born in Manchester but now residing in Australia, Roger Smalley was a composition pupil of Alexander Goehr and Karlheinz Stockhausen and is undoubtedly one of the most significant personalities of the younger generation. Smalley's works, which have been extensively performed and broadcast, fall into that ever-narrowing category of modern works which are both stylistically up-to-date and readily assimilated by the non-specialist listener.

 

WHAT THE PRESS HAVE SAID ABOUT ROGER SMALLEY

The Guardian (UK)
"Smalley is neither parodist nor plunderer. He engages earnestly with an orthodox version of European musical history, filtering the authority of the Romantics through that of his own experience. With scrupulous craft and a troubled sense of restored tonality Smalley tests the possibility of continuities between a past and current contexts."

Gramophone (UK)
"Smalley has certainly made his peace with the great tradition that he and so many of his contemporaries rejected in their youth… the result is never tired neo-romanticism, but far more bracing, for Smalley has refracted that harmonic and gestural world through its own principals or organisation, creating a genuine and highly personal tension between that background and his invention."  

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