: Concerto of the Greater Sea - Joseph Tawadros

Joseph Tawadros has now released enough albums to have ensured that the oud in Australia is now almost a mainstream instrument.  His most recent albums, The Hour of Separation and Band of Brothers (a collaboration with his own brother and the Grigoriyan brothers) garnered plaudits left, right and centre.  However, the music on this album is perhaps Tawadros' most significant undertaking to date.

An album inspired by the movement, silence, energy and freedom of the sea: "To stand free hypnotized by the 'sleepless mother', to be caressed by its gentleness, to resonate with its roar and be lost in the wind, to travel while still, to dream while awake..."  Resonating the great poet Kahlil Gibran's words and thoughts of 'The Greater Sea', Tawadros has composed a complete quartet and solo orchestral work that intertwines and drifts from one, to another, like the current of water itself.

The Oud is an instrument that entrances and wraps the listener in its ancient magic and here Tawadros is joined by the equally charismatic Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra as well as his ensemble including his brother James Tawadros, Chris Moore and Matt McMahon.