Sally Greenaway :: Sally Greenaway

Aubade & Nocturne
Music of Sally Greenaway

Aubade & Nocturne entices us into a world of fancy, wonder and imagination.

This music serves to inspire and invigorate you - from the most delicate solo piano piece to all-enveloping orchestral works.

01. Aurora Musis Amica

Wind orchestra

Here I am, contemplating the dawn again.
A moment with my thoughts and with awesome splendor.
This early morning time has become irresistible.
Dawn is a friend to the muses - Aurora musis amica.

02. The Blue Mountains

Symphony Orchestra

First Light.
Touching the farthest reaches of the mountains.
Slowly, the valleys unfold their beauty, drenched in the warmth of the sun.
A sight to behold...

03, 04, 05. Poems I, II, III

Cello, Piano

As soon as night rises in the sky, the world belongs to us...
Tiny stars shine just enough for the tiny shadows that we are.
But more alluring than anything else at night-time: a mysterious rose bush.
Nothing compares with the divine scent of roses in the night.
How is it that when I was alone I did not feel intoxicated by it?

06. Elk Branches

Chamber Orchestra

Light filters through the stillness of the forest, where the elk's antlers reach up into the dark, tangled branches...

07. Stay Awhile

Chamber Choir

If the moon goes out I will light a star and brighten up your heart. If you're feeling down I'll raise you up and hold you close awhile...

08. Dawn of Evening

Piano

09. Etude in F minor

Piano

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile...

10. Liena

Pedal Harp

11. Skylark

Chamber Choir

12. Fantasia (excerpt)

Clarinet Quartet, Piano

13. The Feud Suite

Wind orchestra

Through the bitterness of dark, the light circles, deep and silent as the universe. While wind flaps and hums through snarls of kikuyu...

...and flings itself out into the spreadeagled ocean.

14. Flywheel

Piano, Bass, Drums (jazz trio)

15. At The Start of Day

Piano, Bass, Drums (jazz trio)

16. Encore de Lirico

Piano, Bass (jazz duo)

Introducing Aubade & Nocturne: a stunning combination of music, breathtaking photography and meticulously chosen poetic texts, superbly performed and recorded.

Australian composer Sally Greenaway's music gifts you with an expansive and timeless accompaniment to your day.

This music deserves a cherished place in your music collection.

Limited Edition 'coffee table' Book-with-CD (hardcover, 32-pages)
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About Sally Greenaway

A leading composer of her generation, Sally Greenaway's music delights audiences and musicians alike. Her music expresses our most intimate to grandiose experiences of our world, with a strong focus on nature, Australian landscape and the beauty in humanity.

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One of the most striking qualities of Greenaway's works ... is that feeling for landscape which also characterises the music of Peter Sculthorpe or Nigel Westlake, the spacious scoring and meandering melodiousness contributing to a sense of sublime restfulness.

There is an intimacy in her music that is the size and weight of a human life. Sally's music is an act of kindness. A bird song. The path of a swan. The pattern of a rose. It is light reflecting on water. It is walking through a forest.