Christina Wilson, Liam Wooding, Luca Manghi & Ben Hoadley - Play-Pen (2019)

A varied recording of engaging and characterful new music by Janet Jennings, performed by Christina Wilson, Liam Wooding, Luca Manghi and Ben Hoadley. The project takes its name and concept from Jenny Doležel's painting Play-Pen, which features as the cover image for the album and also inspired one of the piano pieces in the suite (Pictures At The Waikato Museum).

Janet Jenning's specialist area of composition is setting text (particularly New Zealand poetry) to music. She is one of Aotearoa's leading composers for voice.

Christina Wilson, voice
Liam Wooding, piano
Luca Manghi, flute
Ben Hoadley, bassoon

TRACKLIST

1. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: Prologue
2. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 1, The Infant
3. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 2, The Whining School-Boy
4. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 3, The Lover
5. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 4, A Soldier
6. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 5, The Justice
7. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 6, The Lean and Slipper’d Pantaloon
8. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi - All the World’s a Stage: No. 7, Second Childishness
9. Liam Wooding - Pictures at the Waikato Museum: No. 1, Lace (Jacquie Haselden)
10. Liam Wooding - Pictures at the Waikato Museum: No. 2, Play-Pen (Jenny Dolezel)
11. Liam Wooding - Pictures at the Waikato Museum: No. 3, The Leading Violinist (Garth Tapper)
12. Liam Wooding - Pictures at the Waikato Museum: No. 4, Landscape with Cathedral (Frances Ellis)
13. Liam Wooding - Pictures at the Waikato Museum: No. 5, Grandparents at the Door (Michael Smither)
14. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - A Bird, a Fruit, and a Beast: No. 1, Humming Bird
15. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - A Bird, a Fruit, and a Beast: No. 2, Peach
16. Christina Wilson;Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - A Bird, a Fruit, and a Beast: No. 3, Bat
17. Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - Prelude, Fugue, Variations, & Chaconne: Prelude
18. Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - Prelude, Fugue, Variations, & Chaconne: Fugue
19. Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - Prelude, Fugue, Variations, & Chaconne: Variations
20. Liam Wooding;Luca Manghi;Ben Hoadley - Prelude, Fugue, Variations, & Chaconne: Chaconne