{"product_id":"antoinette-halloran-linda-kouvaras-piano-music-chamber-works-and-songs-vol-3_aec-tcct794-2","title":"Antoinette Halloran - Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Vol. 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Australian Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960)-pianist and musicologist as well as composer-adopts an explicitly feminist viewpoint in her work. She describes She, Who Should Have Been a Queen as a song-cycle, but in fact the text, by Antoinette Halloran, presents a series of dramatic scenas that radically re-assess the fates of a series of female characters from famous operas, the edgy humour and familiar musical language only slightly softening the implied social commentary. To the Lighthouse for brass quintet has, improbably, both a feminist subtext and the engaging buoyancy of a Baroque canzona. As with many other Australian composers, Kouvaras' piano music has a strong sense of space and place, and her expansive Bundanon Suite uses virtuosic piano-writing to present a series of sketches of the landscapes around the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales, with lyrical, elegiac melodic lines that soar over freewheeling piano textures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toccata","offers":[{"title":"New \/ CD \/ Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Vol. 3 Toccata","offer_id":49099051008308,"sku":"TCCT794.2","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/7436\/1652\/files\/4510393-3573459.jpg?v=1780762993","url":"https:\/\/www.fye.com\/products\/antoinette-halloran-linda-kouvaras-piano-music-chamber-works-and-songs-vol-3_aec-tcct794-2","provider":"FYE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}