David Chesworth
Wicked Voice
Songs, arias & humorous refrains

ABC Classics ABC 456 676-2s

CD $25 inc postage

Vocal music from works spanning a ten year period between 1985 and 1994.

The first 'kind of' opera Chesworth wrote was Insatiable in 1985.  This was followed by three experimental works with Chamber Made Opera, with librettos by Douglas Horton; Recital, Lacuna, and, The Two Executioners.

Other works on the CD include Sabat Jesus, a music theatre work conceived by Ariette Taylor with texts by Paul Carter that was commissioned by the Melbourne Festival in 1990.  The recording was selected to represent Australia in the 1994 Paris International Rostrum of Composers.  Part of Sabat Jesus is used as the theme music for ABC Classic FM’s New Music Program and was also used for some years as the Melbourne Film Festival’s Fanfare.

For more on these works see Music Commissions

Sabat Jesus 
1]  To The gods
2]  Speaking
3]  Alone
4]  Without a name
5]  A stranger that you know
6]  Crash
7]  Angels of the everyday
8]  Journey into space      

Call of the wild
9]  Third song

Lacuna
10)  Glink

The Two Executioners
11]  Apprehensive arrival
12]  Wonderful life       
13]  Death
14]  Mr Jean Lagune
15]  A moment of change
16]  Marceline

Insatiable
17]  The lover at night
18]  Transition 1
19]  Sentiment is a by-product
20]  I wish therefore I am
21]  Transition 2
22]  Your arrival, your return or your death.
23]  I must go      
24]  A lovers discourse
25]  Life incomplete
26]  Final act