Various - Don Banks: Vocal and Chamber Music

During his short life Don Banks (1923�80) enjoyed a reputation as the leading modernist among Australian composers. Studies with M�ty�s Seiber, Milton Babbitt and, especially, Luigi Dallapiccola helped refine his serial technique, but his music never retreated into academic abstraction, as this recital of chamber and vocal works demonstrates: it retained a keen sense of drama, an ear for atmosphere, a rather angular lyricism and, occasionally, a touch of humour.