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Below - Music for low flutes
 BELOW - a Unique new CD This rare CD showcases the sound of the low members of the flute family |
The Michael Kieran Harvey Collection
 These finely-crafted works by Kanako Okamoto embrace both classical Japanese themes and the finest traditions of Western music. |
MORE Bizarre or Barock
 The follow up CD to Bizarre or Barock, the best selling album from Melbourne harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson. One critic described the first CD as "the hottest, hippest harpsichord in the world today!" |
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:
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.
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.
Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard
All my life I have been fascinated by the interaction of science and art, especially with music. In an age where art music seems to have been relegated to the area of palliative care by "market forces", the uncompromising approach of some composers still willing to embrace science and the natural world seems to me very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment: to oppose the monolithic hegemonies of church, state and ideology, and instead fight for pluralism and individual freedom, to think for oneself, and to pursue one's curiosity. Michael Kieran Harvey Click here for full details of this CD.
Zoë Black Violin and Daniel McKay, Guitar
Crossing over between ragtime, tango, modern classical and folk music of various cultures, this collection of recent works for violin and guitar spans a period of a shade over twenty years, from Astor Piazzolla's 1986 composition Histoire du Tango, to Tim Hansen's 2007 re-scoring of Earwig for Zoë and Daniel. 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.
Piano transcriptions as you have never heard them before played by Cameron Roberts
This disc by Australian pianist-composer Cameron Roberts is a tour-de-force of piano virtuosity and originality. His original piano transcriptions of orchestral showpieces: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Vivaldi's Summer and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, amongst others, have recently been premiered in London and Madrid to full houses and standing ovation. Here he puts them on disc in his second studio recording for MOVE. Click here for full details of this CD.
Peter Carroll-Held
Extraordinarily popular with children, especially to accompany activities such as rollerblading and skateboarding, these light musical classics are performed live by former circus musician and well known Sydney organist Peter Carroll-Held. This new album release by Move Records (MCD 391) employs state-of-the-art audio media content creation technologies that transport the listener to a virtual reconstruction of an early 1900's town hall pipe organ concert of upbeat theatrical music that is sure to entertain children of all ages. Click here for full details of this CD.
Mark Lockett
Although he first came to prominence on the jazz scene a half century ago, Ornette Coleman still scares people. But his compositions, rooted as they were in classic blues, have long appealed to jazz listeners of every stripe. It's to Mark Lockett's credit that he has chosen four of Ornette's most accessible yet stimulating tunes and included them on this CD. 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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Andrew's music intentionally crosses the boundaries between classical and popular music.
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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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