RICHARD CHARLTON

Guitarist/Composer

Recorded Works

MANTA RAY BALLET (from Five Tails in Cold Blood): for guitar quartet.
"The World in a Single Grain" - the Silver Sands Guitar Quartet - WA - SSGQ 2024.

INNER VOICES: for solo guitar, guitar quartet & ensemble.
"Spectra" - new music for guitar ensemble - New York City Guitar Orchestra.
The ReEntrant label
, released by New Focus Recordings 2024. Ren10

THE BLACK COCKATOO (flying alone): solo guitar
"Meridians" - music of six continents- Jelica Mijanovic 2024

TRANSFORMING FRIDAY: for guitar quartet (3 guitars and bass)
"On Song" - Guitar Trek, ABC Classics 2023.

FEATHERLINES: a suite of Australian birds for solo guitar.
THE BLACK COCKATOO (flying alone): solo guitar
"Whenua o te Manu" - John Couch 2022 - www.johncouch.net

FIVE TAILS IN COLD BLOOD: for guitar quartet (3 guitars and bass)
"Bluetongue" - Guitar Trek NAXOS: 8.57 9060 - 2020

SONATA OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS: for solo guitar

"Forgotten Dreams" - Tim Kain NAXOS - 2019

SHORELINES: for guitar & string quartet
"Imaginations" - Matt Withers & Acacia Quartet - 2018

SUITE LATINA:
for solo guitar
"Suite Latina" - Oliver Fartach-Naini - Ethnoclassics 2018

B
ACH CONSTRUCTS: for cello & two guitars (also Three Klezmenr Songs)
"Consonance" - Rachel Scott & Duo Agostino - Bach in the Dark 2018 (BITD 003)

ALONG PARALLEL LINES: for guitar duet
"Guitar Duo 25" - Oliver Fartach-Naini & Lee Song-Ou - Ethnoclassics 2016

NIGHT RAIN IN A TROPICAL GARDEN: for violin and guitar

"Ask Me Tomorrow" - John Couch & Judith Hickel, JB 1003 - John Couch 2015

THREE KLEZMER SONGS and TWO SPANISH FOLKSONGS: arrangements for violin and two guitars
"Canto Antigo" - Zia Shin, Lee Song-Ou & Oliver Fartach-Naini, CREDIA Classics (2015) CR1501-DU 42105

SUITE LATINA: for solo guitar
"Premieres" (contemporary lyrical works for guitar) - Hilary Field - Yellow Tail Records, Canada  (2015) YT10108

MOSAIC: Australian Guitar Concertos
"Mosaic" - Karin Schaupp with TSO, ABC Classics CD 481 0961 - 2014

STONEWORKS: guitar quartet
"Here & Now" - Four Times a Lady Quartet CD, www.fourtimesalady.be

CAPRICORN SKIES & DREAMS AND DANCES ON MORETON BAY: guitar quartets
"Six Fish" - Guitar Trek 25th Anniversary CD, Tall Poppies TP221

THE BLACK COCKATOO & A SHORT WALK IN A RAINFOREST: guitar solos
"Hagoromo" - Fiona Harrison UK - 2011, FTSCD3

STATUES: song cycle for soprano & piano
"Australian Song Cycles" - Wendy Dixon, David Miller - 2010, Wirripang 036

TWO GUITARS DINE OUT: a Musical Degustation - for guitar duo
"Landscape" - Brew Guitar Duo - 2010

CRADLE SONGS - for solo guitar (arrangements of lullabies from around the world)
"Karin Schaupp - Cradle Songs" ABC Music 273 6981

SONATA - for flute & guitar
"Still Life with Guitar" - Matthew Marshall with Carol Hohauser - Mr M Productions 2009

RHAPSODY - for guitar duo & guitar orchestra
"Festive Fizz" - Guitarstrophie! & National Youth Guitar Ensemble - wygf.org

THREE SENTIMENTAL SCENES & SONATA - for flute & guitar
"Cloud Eight" - Jane Rayner & Peter Lynch. (LR0001)

SONATA - for flute & guitar
"Hill of Slane: Psalms, Sonatas & Sojourns" - The McDonald-Bianculli Duo.

ROMANZA, SPIRAL ELLIPSE, INCANTATION - guitar duo (also arrangements of Italian & Irish melodies)
"Under the Same Sky" - Duo Agostino.

NIGHTSONGS - Four collected guitar duos
"From the Summer Solstice" - Duo Lenz. / incl music by Sculthorpe, Lenz & Svoboda. DLCD 02 2006

TURLOUGH'S GHOSTS - guitar solo
"Mnemonics" - Alan Banks debut solo CD. / RMA 007

FIVE IMPROMPTUS - guitar orchestra/ quartet
"Open Strings" - Jugend Guitarrenorchester of Baden-Wurttemberg. / Cadenza CAD 800917

SURFACE TENSION - guitar solo
- "Tim Kain - Mirrors of Fire" (Australian Guitar Originals)/ incl. music by Edwards, Koehne, Wesley-Smith & Westlake. / Tall Poppies TP169

FIGURE EIGHT - guitar orchestra/quartet
- "Owen Moriarty" - solo & ensemble guitar / Manu Plus-5003/5004 NZ

A SKY FOR DREAMING - guitar quartet
- "Eternity - The timeless Music of Australia's Composers" (various artists inc. Guitar Trek) / ABC Classics, 476 160-7

SPIRAL ELLIPSE, DRIFTING & UPDRAFT - guitar duos
- "Renewal" (Z.O.O. Duo - Peter Constant, Marion Schaap) / EConcern ZOO ECO1

THREE DISTRACTIONS- for guitar ensemble(2001)
- "FrEternity" / Classical Guitar Society CD

STONEWORKS- guitar quartet no. 7 (2002)
- "Saffire" (The Australian Guitar Quartet) / ABC Classics CD, 476 701-2

KINGFISHER DANCES & VALSES MELODIQUE (2001 & 1994) David Jacques, (Canada)
- "d'un Ciel a L'autre"/ Disques XXI-21 Records, XXI-CD 2 1497

MOSAIC & A SHORT WALK IN A RAINFOREST- concerto for guitar, strings & percussion (1995)/ guitar solo (1996)
- Papp Sándor / guit-art GA025 Debrecen Kulturajaert Alapitvany (Hungary)

CARPENTARIA (1999) a suite for guitar & percussion
- "Songs of the Forest" OgdenTANNER Duo / CP6701

A SKY FOR DREAMING (1996) from suite "Capricorn Skies"
- "A Sky for Dreaming" Guitar Trek / ABC Classics 461 727-2

SPIRAL ELLIPSE (2000)
- "Illusie" , Duo Lenz & ArtsWA - DLCD 01 2001

QUINTET in A - for Guitar & String Quartet (1981 rev 99)
- "The Revealing" Roland Chadwick & the New Britten Quartet/ New Classical NC 465 357-1

AFTERTHOUGHTS, FIVE SHORT PIECES, BERCEUSE, CAKEWALK
- "Whispering from the Cedar Top" Raffaele Agostino /Agostino Music

AFTERTHOUGHTS
- "Colours of Fire" Gareth Koch / Artworks AW026

VALSES MELODIQUE (1994)
- "A Sympathetic Resonance" Peter Constant / Move MCD105

THREE SENTIMENTAL SCENES (1995)
-"Music of the New Worlds" - J. Byzantine & G. Mallon / Walsingham Classics WAL8034-2CD

THREE SENTIMENTAL SCENES (1995)
- "Sentimental Scenes" C. Hohauser & M. Marshall / Mr. M Productions CM-22

SERENADE (from Three Sentimental Scenes)
- "Romancing the Oboe" D. Nuttall & T. Kain / Tall Poppies TP119

FIGURE EIGHT (1993)
- "Aubade" (The Sydney Guitar Orchestra) / Jade CD 1069

DANCES FOR THE RAINBOW SERPENT (1990)
- "Guitar Trek II" / ABC Classics 442 508-2

DUST ON A BUTTERFLY'S WING (1993)
- Song Cycle "An Anniversary Bouquet " / MBS 34 CD

THRENODY FOR CHERNOBYL (1986)
- "Anthology of Australian Music on Disc" - Tim Kain/ CSM:11

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE DREAMTIME (2005)
- "Mares, musica de Argentina y Australia" - Omar Cyrulnik / Asuntos Culturales de la Cancilleria Argentina

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE DREAMTIME (1980 revised 88)
- "Legends of Fire" - Matthew Marshall / Waiata Music 9501-2


PUBLISHERS (other than the composer)

Reed Music:
- Melbourne - Songs of the Tide, Dust on a Butterfly's Wing, Statues (song cycles) & Sonatina for Saxophone & Piano

Chanterelle Verlag:
- Germany (Berceuse & Cakewalk - solo guitar )

Frederick Harris Music:
- Canada (Five Short Pieces & Valses Melodique - solo guitar )

Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd:
- AMEB Guitar Series 2 (Tango in the Rain, Cantilena, The Lady of the Lake & selections from Fifteen Elementary Studies)
- AMEB Violin Series 8 (Nos. I & II from Preludes for Violin Alone)
- AMEB Cello Series 2 (Dragonfly Dreams)

Joachim-Trekel-Musikverlag:
- Hamburg, Germany - works for Mandolin Ensemble
(Dances for the Mandolin & the Moon, Adventures of the Duyfken, A Day at the Circus, Meridian and Daintree)

GIA Publications, Inc:
- Chicago, USA  - Sing in Parts vol.2 (10 Songs for children)