Oom, pa-pah!
The Waltz Book on CD
September 2010. Ian Munro's studio recording of The Waltz Book is finally available on CD (Tall Poppies TP209). The 60 one-minute waltzes were commissioned by Munro in 1998 and composed over the following four years. Some of the individual waltzes were premiered as soon as they were composed, but Munro gave the complete premiere of the work in Hobart in March 2003. Since then a dozen other pianists have taken up all or some of the work, playing it in Canada, Finland, Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom and throughout Australia. The new recording, a tour de force, was made in Sydney at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, and Tall Poppies have released the CD, together with a bonus data disc containing a video interview with the composer and PDFs of 10 of the waltzes for printing out and playing.
> Order this CD through the Australian Music Centre - scores of The Waltz Book, 10 easy waltzes from The Waltz Book and 10 more easy waltzes from The Waltz Book also available.
> Order this CD through Buywell
> Watch an interview about The Waltz Book - part 1 & part 2 (YouTube)
Watch & listen to Andrew Ford's music online
Watch the premiere of Andrew Ford's Symphony at ANAM, conducted by Brett Dean. (www.themusicpage.com)
Watch Catherine McCorkill play Ford's Snatches of Old Lauds in Abercrombie Caves (YouTube)
Watch Ensamble 3 performing Ford's Ringing the Changes (YouTube)
Listen to Dance Maze performed by the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. (classic/amp)
Latest additions
to work list
Hear the Bird of Day for six voices
Blitz for orchestra and prerecorded voices
Maa Bonny Lad for soprano, harp and string quartet
Waiting for the Barbarians for large chorus
You Must Sleep, but I Must Dance for viola and percussion
The Scattering of Light for violin, viola, cello and piano
The Rising, for brass band
The Cloths of Heaven, for 10 or more cornets
Nine Fantasies about Brahms for violin, cello and piano
The Averted for six solo voices
Rauha, for woodwind, brass, percussion, piano and double basses
A Dream of Drowning, for baritone and orchestra
The Musical Child, for speaker, piano duet and string orchestra
Free sheet music
downloads
Thin Air for solo piano (pdf 188 KB)
Broadway Boogie Woogie (pdf 150 KB)
for solo piano
Fear no more . . . (pdf 155 KB)
for solo piano
Photographs
High resolution promotional photographs for use in concert programs and other non-commercial contexts are now available on the biography subpage.
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Illegal Harmonies is a ten-part history of music in the 20th century.
Music and Fashion casts a far wider net, the programs ranging from the 12th-century composers of Notre Dame to Cyndi Lauper, from Andrea Bocelli to Elvis Presley, and from electronica to the Elizabethan volta.
Illegal Harmonies back
in print
October 2011. Coinciding with the republication of Andrew Ford's book Illegal Harmonies by Black Inc., in a revised third edition, ABC Classic FM is currently rebroadcasting the original radio series each Sunday lunchtime until the end of November. First heard in 1997, the radio version of Illegal Harmonies consists of ten 90-minute episodes, each covering the music of one decade in the 20th century. The series can also be streamed from ABC Classic FM.
> Listen to episodes online
> Buy Illegal harmonies from Readings (Melbourne)
Tahu Rhodes and WASO
premiere new work
with Tim Winton's words
March 2010. The gala opening concert of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra's 2010 season began with the world premiere of a newly commissioned vocal piece by Andrew Ford.
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Freud's
final hours
on CD
Decca Eloquence has released on CD Andrew Ford’s music-theatre piece, Night and Dreams: the death of Sigmund Freud.
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Read more.
> Buy the CD (Buywell).

A wide selection of CDs with music by Andrew Ford is available from the Buywell online CD store. For a full list of CDs, please see also the CD subpage.