Recent releases
The Other Side of Tony Gould
Tony Gould is best known for his improvising, mostly in the jazz world. This CD presents his classical side.
The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books 1 and 2
Distinguished Australian pianist and harpsichordist Judith Lambden presents the complete J.S. Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I & II (BWV 846–893) a 5-CD set which was recorded over a period of nine years.
My Heart
Pianist Danaë Killian presents an expressionist collection of works by mostly Australian composers.
Bards of Faith and Passion
Jim Minchin has set music to a collection of poems by various writers, at play or at odds with eternity: lyrics by soul poets over the centuries.
Shifting Landscapes
Shifting Landscapes is a compelling new album from Australian flautist Kathryn Moorhead, charting the evolving sound world of the flute through contemporary works that extend the instrument beyond its traditional boundaries.
Homegrown
Themes of nature, motherhood, and a profound spiritual connection to place pervade Homegrown — a luminous new recording of art song performed by soprano Rebecca Cassidy and pianist Alex Raineri, featuring works by Australian women composers.
True Romantics
In True Romantics, two of Australia’s most accomplished musicians, clarinettist Philip Arkinstall and pianist Kristian Chong, bring new light and lyrical warmth to Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas, Op.120, and Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op.22 (here transcribed for clarinet by Roger Young).
Bach to China with Yu
This is volume 3 of Julian Yu's clarinet music performed by Robert Schubert and ensemble.
More new releases
New & noteworthy
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. ...
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.
Riveting performance
The first review of the new double CD Gardener of Time written by Graham Strahle has appeared in The Australian on 20 March 2021. The full text follows: "A collection of orchestral works by Barry Conyngham recorded to mark his 75th birthday allows us to understand and explore this well-established Australian composer in unprecedented detail.
Exquisite art song ... hidden treasures and classic favourites
Moonlight Reflections is a recital album full to the brim with exquisite art song, this recording is a compilation of hidden treasures and classic favourites performed by Opera Australia star, Stacey Alleaume. An Australian-Mauritian soprano of increasing acclaim, Alleaume, who has been praised for her “voice of bell-like purity” (Limelight Magazine) is accompanied by exceptional pianist Amir Farid.
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:
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.
New English translation of Schubert's Winterreise (Winter Journey)
To present the music of Schubert’s Winterreise to a visual arts audience in particular and to a wider musical audience than is usually attracted to German lieder, pianist Brian Chapman judged that it would be wise to perform the work in English – something that is almost never done these days. This new 2-CD set includes two complete performances of the music performed by Nathan Lay (baritone) and Brian Chapman (pianist).
The Marais Project's 20th birthday "Garden Party"
The Marais Project release, The Garden Party, celebrates 20 years for the early music ensemble. It has a festive anniversary flavour and includes several world premieres, not the least of which is the Eriksson-penned title track. “Perhaps their best recording yet. Ravishing!” says one reviewer.