ARIA Award 2021 - Best Classical Album
The incomparable Genevieve Lacey – performer, composer and creator of poetic, sensual worlds – joins with internationally acclaimed Australian harpist Marshall McGuire to explore the unique power of music to offer comfort and renewal.
“During this time of isolation, people the world round are yearning for shelter, both physical and spiritual. So I assembled a cast of people whose work I love, some of whom I’d never met and together, we set out to create a sense of shelter: a nest, woven with memories, heart, hope,” Lacey says.
The exquisite album artwork, created by Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, reflects the beauty and richness of the musical soundscapes presented on this album: sublime new music by Lou Bennett, Andrea Keller, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, John Rodgers, Lachlan Skipworth, Bree van Reyk and Erkki Veltheim, side by side with musical treasures reaching back across six centuries.
In celebration of Marshall's 50th birthday and his distinguished career, ABC Classics releases a 2-CD album featuring some of his most acclaimed recordings to accompany an Australia-wide tour in 2015.
From Baroque works by JS Bach and Handel to contemporary Australian music by Carl Vine and Peter Sculthorpe, this album covers some of the most beguiling music for harp, performed by one of the instrument’s finest exponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Resonances-Music-Harp-Marshall-Mcguire/dp/B00SYP54EU
[1995] Tall Poppies TP 071
Peggy Glanville-Hicks Sonata for harp; Helen Gifford Fable; Barry Conyngham Awakening; Jennifer Fowler Threaded Stars; Graeme Koehne To His Servant Bach…; Peter Sculthorpe Night Pieces/ Into the Dreaming/ From Kakadu; Barry Conyngham Streams [with Geoffrey Collins, flute & Patricia Pollett, viola].
Available from the Australian Music Centre
[2000] ABC Classics [currently out of print]
Music for shakuhachi and harp / with Riley Lee, shakuhachi Michio Miyagi Spring Sea; Anne BoydGoldfish through summer rain; Cloudy Mountain; Katsutoshi Nagasawa First stirrings of spring; The song of the silk cocoon; Franz Schubert The Hurdy-Gurdy Man; Benjamin Britten Corpus Christi Carol; Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols; Chikuho Sakai Nesting of the Cranes
Available at AMAZON
[2013] CHANDOS CHSA 5119
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sir Andrew Davis, Marshall McGuire and Alannah Guthrie-Jones, harp; Jeffrey Crellin, oboe and cor anglais.
Available from CHANDOS
[2002] Artworks AW 036
Marcel TOURNIER Vers la source dans le bois; Paul HINDEMITH Sonata for harp; John CAGE In a Landscape; Peggy GLANVILLE-HICKS Sonata for harp; Luciano BERIO Sequenza II; Benjamin BRITTEN Suite for harp; Toru TAKEMITSU Stanza II; Paul STANHOPE The Arch Window.
Available from the Australian Music Centre
[2007] ABC Classics.
A double CD release from ABC Classics of two previously released CDs – The Twentieth Century Harp [Artworks] and Rough Magic [ABC Classics].
Available from Buywell.
[2013] Tall Poppies TP226
Marshall McGuire (harp), Gerald English (tenor), and the Sydney Chamber Choir.
Available from Marshall McGuire
