In 2021, pianist Ronan Apcar recorded and released the unpublished and unheard music of legendary Australian composer and educator Dulcie Holland, that he had discovered in the archives of the National Library of Australia. After its release Dulcie Holland Crescent became an ABC Classic’s featured album. A year on, Ronan returns to the National Library of Australia to perform these works live, paired with compelling pieces by other Australian composers both past and present. 

Conversations for Piano is a celebration of the depth and quality of Australian music explored through the works of Dulcie Holland. Apcar presents some of the greatest 20th century Australian piano pieces in Holland’s Sonata for Piano paired with her former mentor Roy Agnew’s Sonata Ballade. Explore the sounds of a British autumn in Holland’s Autumn Piece contrasted against the Australian spring in David John Lang’s magpie-inspired piece, and listen as Rósalind Page’s adventurously ambient and ethereal work is answered by one of Holland’s most delightful yet sophisticated character pieces, Conversation for Piano.