Orchestral

Reminiscences

This is Julian Yu's second collaboration Guangzhou Pearl River Symphony Orchestra, this time of orchestrations and arrangements of Chinese folk songs and musical excerpts.

Dreams: Works for Small Orchestra

Australian composer David Joseph gathers choreographically inspired works for small orchestra from 1986 to 1994 in Dreams, tracing memory, dream states and perception through richly textured, psychologically charged writing.

Gardener of Time: Barry Conyngham at 75

This double-CD gathers seven orchestral works by Barry Conyngham, among Australia’s most widely performed composers abroad, with premieres across Japan, America, Europe, Russia and Australia. The Ormond Ensemble is conducted by Richard Davis.

Mirabile in Prague

Australian composer John Allan presents five of his own orchestral works alongside his orchestrations of Debussy and Brahms piano pieces. David Kram conducts members of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Sebastian's Greatest Adventure

George Dreyfus’s score for the 1963 ABC children’s series Sebastian the Fox returns in a two-disc set: a CD of the soundtrack and a DVD of restored episodes with a newly recorded orchestral version.

Passing

Recorded at the 2007 Asian Composers League Festival in Wellington, this album presents nine orchestral works by Australian and New Zealand composers, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Young.

The Glass Soldier

Music from Hannie Rayson’s play The Glass Soldier. Based on a true story, it is a sincere tribute to Australians who fought in the Great War: people who had little, yet gave everything.

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.

David Joseph Selected Works, Vol. 1

David Joseph Selected Works, Vol. 1 gathers live orchestral performances by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra.

Japanese Story (Original Soundtrack)

Elizabeth Drake's award-winning score for the Australian feature Japanese Story, starring Toni Collette, layers Japanese instruments and Okinawan folksong with western orchestra. Two bonus cues and a 16-page booklet complete the release.

After the Deluge (Original Soundtrack)

Award-winning Australian film composer Cezary Skubiszewski’s soundtrack to the acclaimed mini-series After the Deluge. Scored for orchestra and choir, it ranges from haunting violin solos to 40s jazz, Irish airs and on-screen band pop.

Milerum's Basket

A 2002 portrait of Adelaide composer Becky Llewellyn across chamber, orchestral and choral forces, with the Adelaide Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Adelaide Chamber Singers, soloists and a multimedia video of Berceuse.

The Film Music of George Dreyfus, Vol. 2

Move again draws on Screensound Australia's archive for the film music of George Dreyfus, with the first release of his unused score for Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies (1982).

Recorded Messages: Violin

Composer Eve Duncan commissioned violinists in Austria, China, Japan and Australia to record her works, gathering solo, duo, quartet and ensemble pieces onto this cross-cultural violin programme.

Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu

Julian Yu takes famous pieces from the Western musical tradition and ornaments them in the manner of Chinese folk music, until the familiar becomes something newly made.

Chronicle: Orchestral Music of Tony Gould

The definition of the word “chronicle” — put briefly “a record of events” — aptly fits this recording. Chronicle forms an inspiring record of musical events in the life of Tony Gould, one of Australia’s most creative musicians and composers.

Bamboo Organ

Douglas Lawrence and the Manila Chamber Orchestra. Manila's suburb of Las Piñas boasts the world's only organ with pipes made from bamboo. Solo pieces and Handel's Organ Concerto in G minor show the instrument's range; a bonus disc interviews the restorer.

The Marvellous World of George Dreyfus, Vol. 1

A survey of marvellous music by the well-known Australian composer George Dreyfus, one of the country’s most animated musical personalities, spanning concert, film, choral and children’s repertoire.

The Film Music of George Dreyfus, Volume 1

Fourteen of George Dreyfus’s best-loved film and television themes, recorded with the Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras under the composer’s direction.

Larry Sitsky: De Profundis

This disc presents Larry Sitsky’s intense De Profundis, drawn from Oscar Wilde’s prison texts, with Violin Concerto No. 2, Fantasia No. 2 and the solo piano work Petra.

Marshall-Hall Symphony

In this first-ever recording of Marshall-Hall’s symphonies, Melbourne University Professor of Music Warren Bebbington conducts the Queensland Theatre Orchestra in late-Romantic orchestral works of striking colour and drive.

Gould Plays Gould

Some of Australia's finest players of spontaneous, improvised music show their talents on this disc, compiled from two earlier LPs. Original pieces by Tony Gould, directed and conducted by John Sangster.

The Sound of Rosny

The Australian Rosny Children's Choir and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra present songs from other lands, Chinese and Australian repertoire, and cantata movements by Vaughan Williams and Don Kay.

George Dreyfus: Chamber and Orchestral Music

The Adelaide Wind Quintet and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra present the serious side of George Dreyfus: the Sextet for Didjeridu and Wind Instruments and his two symphonies, a core chamber and orchestral portrait of the composer.

Mandolino Italiano

The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra presents a programme built around Italian melody and the Neapolitan mandolin tradition. Bitelli, a Bellini fantasy, period arias with soprano, a Verdi La Traviata fantasy, Toselli’s Serenade, and well-loved popular songs.

Zalankara

Jeff Pressing's Zalankara is a multicultural symphony: a wide-ranging, ambitious work dedicated to the refugees and displaced people of the world.

Tchaikovsky Concerto / Shostakovich Song of the Forests

The New Monash Orchestra under André de Quadros joins pianist Yuri Rozum, the Monash Women's Choir and Viva Voce in an all-Russian programme: Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto and Shostakovich's rarely heard Song of the Forests, his first major work for choir and orchestra.

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