Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas is a graphic designer and illustrator whose cover artwork, illustration and design appear on many Move Records releases.
His credits span artwork, graphic design, cover illustration, cover design and related cover treatment across the catalogue, from chamber and piano programmes to brass band, flute ensemble and organ recordings. The work sits quietly behind the music: packaging and image that frame each disc without claiming the stage.
Credits
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 1
Flautist Derek Jones and pianist Leigh Harrold present this anthology of contemporary Australian flute music, from Sculthorpe’s Torres Strait cycle to solo and duo works by leading local composers.
126 Variations on "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
Michael Kieran Harvey performs Julian Yu’s 126 variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, a pedagogical tour of compositional craft. The tune appears in an immense range of classical, jazz and folk styles, many developed from well-known works.
Russian Cello
Enter the world of Russia. Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid present unknown works alongside much-loved classics. The recording celebrates a romanticism in composition inspired by the combination of cello and piano.
Fantasie Australis
Compositions by living Australian composers, most based in Melbourne, performed by the Monash University Flute Ensemble under Peter Sheridan. Australia’s flute-ensemble repertoire is still small beside other national traditions, yet the country has a rich store of fine woodwind writing.
Astra 60
This recording captures a concert of Australian piano music celebrating Astra’s long support of Australian composers and performers. For sixty years the Astra Chamber Music Society has placed new Australian work beside international new-music currents, always with a distinctive cultural frame.
Bridges, Vol. 2
Monash University–based Chamber Mélange present an engaging collection of modern Czech and Romanian chamber works shaped by European folk music and neo-classicism.
Remixing Modernism
A unique experiment by Stephen Emmerson: this two-CD set presents the same 1908–1909 piano repertoire with contrasting styles of mixing and sound production, from traditional to modern.
Chopin Showcase
Ian Holtham, piano. 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.
The Way of the Cross
Dupré's depictions of the fourteen Stations of the Cross, with his Variations sur un Noël, are played by Dr Robin Batterham on the 4/68 Rieger organ of The Scots' Church, Melbourne.
Elektra
Australian piano music by Helen Gifford, Tony Gould, Andrew Ford, Julian Yu and Michael Kieran Harvey. The title work, Elektra, extends acoustic piano sound through computer processing, in a collaboration with sound engineer Michael Hewes, who shaped the instrument’s resonances in real time.
Russian Rarities
Larry Sitsky’s two-disc survey of Russian piano rarities spans the late Romantic world of Anton Rubinstein and the suppressed early twentieth-century avant-garde that followed the Revolution.
Dimensions of Night
Michael Kieran Harvey performs Larry Sitsky's epic solo-piano cycle. Dimensions of Night draws on ancient legend, myth and spiritual history, with a series of chords underpinning the harmonic sequence across the whole work.
Pictures at an Exhibition: Reflected and Refracted
Unique orchestral arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition, Glière’s Coloratura Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, Glinka’s The Nightingale, and two movements from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons.
The Way of the Seeker
Written by Larry Sitsky in 2004 and played by Michael Kieran Harvey, The Way of the Seeker is a highly virtuosic solo piano work whose thematic material is drawn from fragments of oriental chant.
The Brass Band Music of George Dreyfus
This release features Fanfare for a New Dome played by Melbourne's Kew Band. There is a great variety of music composed by George Dreyfus here — even a band version of his famous Theme from Rush.
Music for French Horn
Andrew Blyth’s Horn Concerto of 2001 anchors this programme for French horn and virtual orchestra, with four shorter lyrical pieces. Soloist Geoff Viking Lierse is Associate Principal Horn of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Sonatas for Oboe and Violin
The two sonatas began as traditional works with piano. The Oboe Sonata, written for teaching colleague Caroline O'Donnell, is a first sonata; here it is played by her sister Annabelle.