Blake Stickland
Blake Stickland is a recording and editing engineer whose work appears across many Move Records sessions, from solo piano and chamber repertoire to jazz and contemporary programmes.
His credits span recording, editing, producing and occasional programming. On Judith Lambden’s Bach projects he is named as recording and editing engineer, including the complete Well-Tempered Clavier. Elsewhere he has engineered sessions for the Australian Chamber Choir, Michael Kieran Harvey, Duo 19, Siobhán Stagg and Amir Farid, and others, and contributed bass and drums programming on Psychosonata.
Credits
Carpe Diem: Piano Music from Italy
This recording celebrates Italy, and Rome above all, as a lasting place of artistic pilgrimage and inspiration. Italian-themed solo piano works frame the premiere of Michael Kieran Harvey’s Carpe Diem (2015).
Editing Engineer
Michael Bertram Fantaisie-Sonata
Larry Sitsky wrote that Michael Bertram ‘writes fierce but exciting piano music’. Michael Kieran Harvey matches that charge in a programme built around Bertram’s large-scale Fantaisie-Sonata, with shorter piano works completing the portrait.
70 More Variations on "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
The tune “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has fascinated and irritated composers through the ages. In this second collection Julian Yu has commissioned a staggeringly diverse cornucopia of stylistic arrangements. Michael Kieran Harvey tackles scores from the frivolous to the frenetic, the fragile to the fragrant, the popular to the profound.
Patañjali
This CD and performance DVD celebrates Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra in music and āsana (2015). Michael Kieran Harvey composed the score and plays keyboards, with Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (piano) and Eugene Ughetti (percussion).
Siva
Michael Kieran Harvey plays Australian piano masterworks of the last fifty years. Raymond Hanson, Gordon Kerry, Brendan Colbert, Helen Gifford and Neil Kelly are the composers gathered on this recital of concentrated virtuoso writing.
Inferno
Michael Kieran Harvey plays two solo piano works by Elliott Gyger. Harvey writes that they bookend Gyger’s extraordinary musical universe – which, like Messiaen, appeared fully-formed at a precocious age, and has deepened across a long career.
Editing Engineer
Sonorous Sonatas
Peter Sheridan set out to bring the larger, lower flutes to centre stage, testing their sound and colour within one of Western music’s most traditional forms: the sonata. Commissioned works and substantial duo writing put alto, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass flutes in the foreground.
Psychosonata
Michael Kieran Harvey’s own works from 2007–2013, spanning serious intensity and cheerful pastiche. The half-hour piano sonata anchors shorter pieces with leading young Australian instrumentalists.
Recording Engineer
Editing Engineer
A Little French Cello
A charming collection from the rich French school of the late nineteenth century. Cello sonority and piano clarity make the programme both approachable and moving. Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid are masters of their art.
Seasons of Love
A jazz trio, string orchestra and guest soloists join vocalists Gian Slater and Eddie Perfect. Graeme Lyall’s rich arrangements refresh Great American Songbook standards and other stage and screen favourites.
Editing Engineer
Hymne à l’amour
Hymne à l’amour is an exquisite collection of art songs from soprano Siobhán Stagg and pianist Amir Farid. The programme traces the frailty of the human condition through flirtation, deep love and heartbreaking truths.
Recording Engineer
Editing Engineer
Fluid Lines
After nearly a decade of hanging out, talking shop and drinking coffee, virtuoso guitarists Daniel McKay and Antony Field formed Duo 19. Their debut presents an eclectic programme of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works, including music by Australians Nigel Westlake and Phillip Houghton.
Bossa Eyes
Laid-back jazz vocals drift over bossa and samba grooves in a programme inspired by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Familiar standards sit beside originals on an acoustically open set that favours space, lyric and a gentle Latin pulse.
d'aujourd'hui
Crossing ragtime, tango, modern classical and folk idioms, this violin and guitar programme runs from Piazzolla’s 1986 Histoire du Tango to Tim Hansen’s 2007 rescoring of Earwig for Zoë Black and Daniel McKay.
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.
Editing Engineer
Bach Piano 2
More Bach keyboard works on piano from Judith Lambden. Of her first volume, Toby Wong praised ‘[Lambden’s] exceptional artistry … creates a compelling and vibrant musical narrative.’
Bach Piano 1
Pianist Judith Lambden continues her long-running survey of Bach’s keyboard works. This programme gathers four early toccatas with the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue and the Italian Concerto.
A Baroque Christmas
The music on this CD is a historical Christmas “pick of the pops”, from the late 1400s to the end of the Baroque period. Directed by Douglas Lawrence, the Australian Chamber Choir offers a programme recorded live in concert during their 2019 European tour. The 17 tracks are drawn from lesser-known seasonal works, championing a sublime repertoire that is all too often neglected.
Six French Suites
Judith Lambden plays Bach’s six French Suites on piano across two discs, offered for the price of one. The set presents the complete dance cycles BWV 812–817 in a clear, balanced reading.
Six English Suites
Judith Lambden performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s six English Suites, BWV 806–811, complete on piano across two discs.