Composers: Brendan Colbert, Scott McIntyre, Don Kay, Elliott Gyger, Elizabeth Drake, Martin Friedel, Brendan Collins
Compositions: Music for Piano
Performers: Michael Kieran Harvey p
Catalogue Number: MOVE MD3438

Michael Kieran Harvey is renowned for his formidable technique and championing of contemporary compositions that explore the piano’s sonic possibilities. Both are evident in Dancing to the Tremors of Time, a collection of new works for piano by seven Australian composers. Its title comes from the opening work by Brendan Colbert, commissioned by and dedicated to Harvey and named for a 2004 painting by Australian surrealist artist James Gleeson. Packing just under 30 minutes into a single, frenetic movement...