Thoughts of Home

24.11.2015 tarihli Türkiye, Avustralya ve Yeni Zelanda ortaklı Gelibolu Senfoni Orkestrasının konser kaydıdır. Şef: Jessica Cottis Orkestra: Gallipoli Senfoni Orkestrası Ney & Zurna: Ömer Faruk Tekbilek Kanun:Bahadır Şener Bağlama: Ozan Arslan Didgeridoo: William Barton Taonga Pūoro: Horomona Horo Perküsyon: Michael Askill Kromatik Mızıka: Julian Jackson The movement was influenced by the first piece of music the composer vividly remembered, The Last Post, and utilises the one instrument that many of the troops were able to carry with them – a simple mouth organ. It provokes feelings of melancholy, echoing the feelings of many of those soldiers as their thoughts turned back to home. Sadly Peter Sculthorpe passed away in 2014. His composition contemplates the hours and minutes before the Anzacs left the ships and boarded the small craft as silently as possible for the shores of Gallipoli. These troops knew that for many it may be their final hours. What thoughts went through their minds? Was it a moment of fear? Or was it simply a new stage of their adventure, the culmination of their training. Did they worry about defeat, about letting their mates down, about what may await them on the dark shoreline ahead? During these hours of waiting, inevitably thoughts turned to loved ones, to home.