Move Records Australian classical & art music, est. 1968

Australian art music, recorded since 1968.

Move is an independent label that records and publishes Australia’s classical, early and new music; especially the performers, the composers, and the works that would otherwise go unrecorded.

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Encores

Directed by Douglas Lawrence, the Australian Chamber Choir gathers favoured concert encores in a programme that shows the ensemble at its most immediate and engaging.

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  1. The Battle of Jericho
  2. Abendlied
  3. Water Music – Air
  4. The Quacks
  5. I want Jesus to walk with me

Why we record

Move has never selected projects on commercial viability alone. We look for music of inherent value — living composers, and works from the past that have yet to reach the digital era; helping to preserve Australia’s musical heritage.

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Recording studio & services

Move Records Studio is a purpose-built classical recording space with a rich natural acoustic, ideal for soloists, vocal groups and small instrumental ensembles.

We also offer on-location recording, duplication, artwork and printing, vinyl restoration, publishing and distribution.

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We are real people, working with real people to promote important and beautiful musical works with artists who might otherwise never have the chance to be recorded.

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Broken Words

Chamber works for concert flute, alto flute and piccolo; baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and alto saxophone; and piano by Frank Millward. Broken Words explores how technology is reshaping musical communication and meaning.

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Exquisite Harmonies

Exquisite Harmonies features works for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and several harpsichord solos, largely from the French Baroque. The exceptions are Telemann, Abel and Australian composer Troy Russell. A nice treat is an improvised harpsichord fantasia in the style of Telemann.

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The life in between

Michael Kieran Harvey anchors this solo piano programme with Martin Friedel’s final work, …the life in between…, then sets it among virtuoso scores by Pertout, Crossman, Spiers, Selleck and McAlley.

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The Other Side of Tony Gould

Tony Gould is best known as a jazz pianist and improviser. This recording turns to his classical side: original concert works written over two decades, with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in a four-hand piano version.

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The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books 1 and 2

Distinguished Australian pianist and harpsichordist Judith Lambden presents J.S. Bach’s complete Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II (BWV 846–893), recorded across nine years as a five-CD set.

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My Heart

Naarm/Melbourne pianist Danaë Killian presents an expressionist programme of solo piano, spoken word and tarot, centred on her own My Prussian Blue Heart and works by mostly Australian composers.

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Shifting Landscapes

Shifting Landscapes is Australian flautist Kathryn Moorhead’s survey of the flute’s contemporary sound world, gathering works that push the instrument past its familiar range through extended technique, colour, and texture.

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Homegrown

Themes of nature, motherhood, and a profound spiritual connection to place pervade Homegrown — art song by Australian women composers, performed by soprano Rebecca Cassidy and pianist Alex Raineri.

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Early Music Baroque Classical Era Romantic & Impressionist Modernist Classical Contemporary Classical Children's Choral & Sacred Christmas Experimental Folk Jazz & Improvised Orchestral & Concerto Organ Spoken Word Stage & Screen Vocal & Opera World & Cross-cultural All genres →

News & reviews

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  1. What would Peggy do? The cultural cringe in Australian classical music

    In 2012, Michael Kieran Harvey gave the 14th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address established by the New Music Network. A strong advocate for Australian art music, Michael challenges the status quo where funding tends to favour overseas artists and dead, rather than living composers. The talk raises issues still fully relevant more than ten years later. The video can be viewed here along with a full transcript. ...

  2. Brilliantly conceived and performed

    Julie McErlain reviewed Michael Kieran Harvey War Sonata concert in July 2024 ... Brilliantly conceived and performed, Michael Kieran Harvey’s premier performance of his three War Sonatas was a tense, dramatic, hypnotic and deeply confronting musical experience, adding powerful new works to universal piano repertoire.

  3. Andrián Pertout’s monumental piano work ‘Luz Meridional’ is full of delights

    The following is one of the best reviews we have seen at Move. Alan Holley wrote this rave for "Luz Meridional" in the online site classikON, and it is worth a read:

  4. Wagner reinterpreted, bold as brass

    Barney Zwartz has written an article in The Age and SMH about horn player Mark Papworth's Wagner project. Siegfried’s Story, a CD of 12 scenes from the Ring adapted for the highly unusual combination of horn, tuba and piano, recording under the name Bonza Brass.

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Nearly six decades of recordings, from early music to the newly commissioned. Browse the catalogue →

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