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Chopin Showcase
 CHOPIN SHOWCASE -Just in time for Chopin's 200th birthday pianist Ian Holtham showcases some of Chopin's most loved works |
Impromptu - Brian Chapman
 IMPROMPTU - Brian Chapman A disc with a new 'alla breve' approach to Beethoven's 13th piano sonata, complementing Chapman's unique 'alla breve' approach to the famed "moonlight" sonata |
Russian Rarities
 The works that appear on this 2-CD set are the result of research and performance into a particular era of Russian music. Although the musical distance between the Rubinstein Op.88 Variations and the other later Russian works is often vast, the chronological time is actually fairly short |
MAGNIFICAT Douglas Lawrence
 Douglas Lawrence plays a magnificent recital on this his second recording on the organ he designed, the impressive 4 manual Rieger organ in The Scots' Church Melbourne. Works include, Bach, Mendelssohn, Alain and much much more! |
VEILED VIRTUOSITY
 The stunning debut CD from Australian National PIano Award winner, Amir Farid |
Love Reconciled
 Jennifer Eriksson, Director of The Marais Project, and one of AustraliaÕs few full time professional viola da gambists, talks about her latest CD, Love Reconciled. |
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Latest Recordings:
Douglas Lawrence Plays the Rieger Organ in the Scots' Church Melbourne
Douglas Lawrence plays a magnificent recital on this his second recording on the organ he designed, the impressive 4 manual Rieger organ in The Scots' Church Melbourne. Works include, Bach, Mendelssohn, Alain and much much more! Click here for full details of this CD.
Michael Kieran Harvey Collection
A musical homage to the life and work of Frank Zappa, composed and performed by Michael Kieran Harvey, and complemented by Lingua Franka - concrete poetry by Arjun von Caemmerer, 48 Fugues for Frank premiered in 2010. A labor of love for Zappaphiles and anyone else with an interest in advanced music, innovative poetry and artistic vision. Each of the ten pieces uses four or five ideas inspired by, reacting to, or developing some of Zappa's signature techniques. Click here for full details of this CD.
Zoe Knighton - Cello, Amir Farid - Piano
Mendelssohn is often regarded as a composer who lived a charmed life and therefore whose compositions lack a certain integrity or depth of expression. The gloriousness of his music, its likeability and his creativity in celebrating humanity are certainly primary reasons for his music's longevity. Click here for full details of this CD.
Ian Holtham - Piano
This CD was released on 1 March 2010 which marked the bicentenary of Chopin's birth. The genesis of this recording was to assemble a number of the composer's most attractive and original works as a mark of homage to one of the most outstandingly innovative and important composers for the piano who has ever lived. Click here for full details of this CD.
Emma Sidney
Laid back jazz vocals float beautifully over bossa and samba rhythms. This unusual mix is inspired by the work of Brazilian artist Antonio Carlos Jobim. The result is an acoustically spacious album which seduces the senses with a mix of familiar and original material. Click here for full details of this CD.
Gordon Atkinson plays 7 organs from the smallest to the largest
Gordon Atkinson plays 7 of Melbourne's finest organs, including the giant organ in the Melbourne Town Hall, the organs of St. Patrick's Cathedral, The Scots' Church, St. Paul's Cathedral and St. Mary's Star of the Sea church, West Melbourne. Click here for full details of this CD.
Amir Farid - Piano
Winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, pianist Amir Farid has been described as "a highly creative musician - a pianist of great intelligence and integrity. He brings strong musical substance to all that he does, imbuing it with his own particular experience and understanding", and who "in a well populated field...distinguishes himself for all the right reasons". Click here for full details of this CD.
Music for low flutes
A charming and rare recording of new chamber music showcasing the atmospheric sound of the lower members of the flute family. Click here for full details of this CD.
Australian piano music by Gifford, Gould, Ford, Yu and Michael Kieran Harvey
Elektra is an experiment in extending acoustic piano sound via computer, and was a collaboration with sound engineer Michael Hewes, who surfed the piano resonances in real time. Click here for full details of this CD.
Larry Sitsky - piano
The works that appear on this 2-CD set are the result of research and performance into a particular era of Russian music. Although the musical distance between the Rubinstein Op.88 Variations and the other later Russian works is often vast, the chronological time is actually fairly short Click here for full details of this CD.
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Young
Recorded during the Asian Composers' League Festival in 2007, this new recording showcases works by prominent Australian and NZ composers performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kenneth Young. Click here for full details of this CD.
Elizabeth Anderson
"The hottest, hippest harpsichord in the world today" said one critic of the best selling Bizarre or baRock Vol.1. Melbourne harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson has returned to the studio for the long awaited sequel, bizarre or baRock vol. 2. Click here for full details of this CD.
Michael Kieran Harvey performs Larry Sitsky's epic piano work
Larry Sitsky's "Dimensions of Night" draws on ancient legend, myth and spiritual history. It reflects on the connectedness of the world's religious mythologies and their frequent exploitation to cause harm to the vulnerable. The epic employs a series of chords to underpin the sequence of harmonies throughout the whole cycle. Click here for full details of this CD.
re-sound
Welcome to The Flowers - re-sound's 5th CD release. All works on this recording are Australian compositions and all explore the aesthetics of contemporary art music. The booklet of re-sound's first CD (1998) describes re-sound as a continuous project in sound. Click here for full details of this CD.
A collection of Impromptus, Fantasies and Impressions for piano solo - Brian Chapman
Although only two of the pieces presented in this collection carry the title Impromptu, many of the other works possess an improvisatory quality. Beethoven's simply constructed 'easy' sonata may well have been a written out improvisation that only became published years later when the composer realised that his encroaching deafness made his future more dependent on composition and publication than on public performance. And we might fairly describe as 'doodling' the manner of commencement of Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, the two Spanish pieces and the first four of the Debussy selections. Click here for full details of this CD.
The Marais Project
Virtually every work on the CD represents an first Australian commercial recording from the monumental Tombeau de Mr. Meliton, the lament Marais wrote for two bass viols upon the death of his friend Meliton, to the Chaconne by Jacques Morel, Marais' suite for two viola da gambas in d minor and, of course, Yates' ballet music. Soprano Belinda Montgomery rounds off the CD with performances of two of Bouteiller's rarely heard motets for two viola da gambas and continuo, in the process contributing another Australian "first". Representing a landmark in the maturity of early music performance in Australia, Love Reconciled is a recording to play often and savor deeply. Click here for full details of this CD.
Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra
This new disc from the Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra showcases contemporary Australian Music for Mandolin and Guitar. Composers include Peter Sculthorpe, Michelle Nelson, Robert Schultz, Caroline Szeto and Betty Beath Click here for full details of this CD.
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Artists & Composers:
Michael Kieran Harvey is one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music of his generation. A champion of Australian music and himself a composer, he regularly commissions new Australian music and has performed Australian music with Australia's leading contemporary music ensembles and orchestras
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Claire Cooper studied with John Winther at the Canberra School of Music, and later at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She spent five years as repetiteur and accompanist for the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently a member of staff at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne as an accompanist.
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Mike Nock returned to Australia in 1985 after spending 25 years in the US where he established an international reputation through his many tours and recordings. Although primarily known as a jazz composer his music has been commissioned and performed by such as the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra (USA), The New Zealand Piano Quartet & New Zealand String Quartet, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Synergy, Ensemble 24 and Melbourne Windpower among many others.
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Peter Sheridan, a native of New York City, has performed and taught in America, England and Australia. He has been a faculty member of numerous music faculties in Los Angeles and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet. He has recorded Hollywood soundtracks and has been a recipient of awards from Mannes College, University of Arizona, Aspen Music Festival, Ottorino Respighi Festival (Italy), American Composers Forum, and Santa Monica College.
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Winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, pianist Amir Farid has been described as "a highly creative musician - a pianist of great intelligence and integrity. He brings strong musical substance to all that he does, imbuing it with his own particular experience and understanding", and who "in a well populated field...distinguishes himself for all the right reasons".
Click here for more about Amir Farid.
Born in England in 1944, Brian Chapman studied piano in Brisbane with Nora Baird from 1952, and in Melbourne from 1954 with Lindsay Biggins, J.A. Steele and Roy Shepherd. After obtaining his AMusA performing diploma in 1958, he discontinued piano lessons the following year for five years, returning to study with Roy Shepherd in 1964.
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