Advice To A Girl, by Anne Cawrse

Advice To A Girl

by Anne Cawrse

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The debut album by Australian composer Anne Cawrse, featuring chamber music composed between 2004-2021.

Released February 25th, 2022.

Tracklisting:

1 Grounded (2021)
Sharon Grigoryan (Cello), Slava Grigoryan (Guitar)

2 Skittled (2015)
The Australian String Quartet- Dale Barltrop (Violin 1), Francesca Hiew (Violin II), Stephen King (Viola), Sharon Grigoryan (Cello)

3-5 A Woman’s Song (2005)
Chanson
June
Stanzas
Bethany Hill (Soprano), Cameron Hill (Violin), Helen Ayres (Violin), Martin Alexander (Viola), Ewen Bramble (Cello)

6-8 Imperfect Fourth (2004)
I. Con fuoco
II. Adagio
III. Con anima
Aleksandr Tsiboulski (Guitar), Cameron Hill (Violin), Helen Ayres (Violin), Martin Alexander (Viola), Ewen Bramble (Cello)

9 Advice to a Girl (2020)
Bethany Hill (Soprano), Cameron Hill (Violin), Helen Ayres (Violin), Martin Alexander (Viola), Ewen Bramble (Cello)

Total time: 58 minutes

CD cover artwork by Greet Tappert. Comes with a 20-page booklet containing artist photos, song texts, and detailed program notes by David John Lang.

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I’ve long been intrigued as to what keeps Anne Cawrse composing. I don’t think it’s obsession, or the chasing of a fanciful dream. Anne comes across in conversation as a rather sensible person: a quiet and diligent worker, thoughtful but practical. It’s as though she has stumbled into composing quite by accident, and now is too polite and conscientious to back out. So she simply keeps going, making sure she does her work as well as she can.

But how can you tell if what you are doing is any good? That question often loiters in the background when we catch up for coffee. No amount of critical acclaim or audience feedback or awards or commissions can answer it. They’re all helpful things to grab onto when putting together a grant application. But when you’re faced with the next blank page of music paper, you need something more… something you can’t grasp hold of…

It must be tempting, having written so much beautiful music, to think that at last you’ve ‘got’ it, that you’ve captured the key to the Good and Beautiful. But Anne knows that creativity is a gift. To reach out and take it for yourself is to turn it into a possession, at which point it fails – and we all know the ugliness of self-absorbed art.

This surrender, this holding-lightly of what is most dear to you, is the lesson contained in Advice to a Girl: “No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.” There is no bass in these delicate lines; the music floats in the treble throughout, and finally disappears into thin air. Anne’s music rises with Sara Teasdale’s poem from tremulous insecurity to – well, definitely not outright confidence, but a quiet assuredness. And so Anne keeps composing.

© David John Lang 2021

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released February 25, 2022

All music by Anne Cawrse

'Skittled' recorded at ABC Adelaide, October 2020. Produced by Jakub Guadasinski. Engineered by Tom Henry.
All other tracks recorded at Elder Hall, Adelaide in 2020-2021. Produced, Engineered, Edited, Mixed by Lachlan Bramble.
Mastered by Andrew Edgson.
Recording photography by Emma Luker.
Artwork by Greer Tappert.
Graphic Design by Karen De Nardi.
Recorded and Produced with the assistance of Arts SA.

All tracks licensed exclusively from Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
© 2022 Anne Cawrse. All rights of the owner of copyright reserved.

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Anne Cawrse Adelaide, Australia

Writing music described as ‘beguilingly beautiful’, ‘profoundly telling’ and ‘lush and ecstatic’, Anne Cawrse is an award-winning Australian composer of acoustic orchestral, chamber, solo and choral works.

www.annecawrse.com

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