Night Thoughts

Len Vorster

Len Vorster is one of Australia's finest accompanists, and artistic director of Classical Palette (a Naxos series devoted to contemporary music), of the Schirmer Ensemble, and of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959) was a Swiss-born American composer whose best-known music draws on Jewish cultural and liturgical themes. An eclectic modernist, he shaped a dramatic, original language especially eloquent in writing for strings and orchestra.

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland wrote the open, slowly shifting harmonies many still hear as the sound of American music. His vernacular style of the 1930s and 1940s gave ballet, song and chamber works a plain-spoken clarity that reaches from folk song to fanfare.

Michael Easton

Michael Easton (1954–2004) was a British-born composer, pianist and arranger who settled in Melbourne in 1982. His music is accessible, wickedly witty and finely crafted, drawing on French models and jazz.

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was a French composer, pianist, organist and teacher whose music links late Romanticism with early modernism. His best-known works include the Requiem, the Pavane, and a large body of songs and piano music.

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith wrote music that thinks like Bach and speaks in a lean modern tongue: dense counterpoint, clear forms, and harmony that uses every chromatic note without abandoning tonality. His sonatas for ordinary and unlikely instruments remain essential working repertoire.

Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc's music swings from boulevard wit to peasant devotion. Perpetual-motion piano, chamber sonatas, horn élégies, Christmas and penitential motets, a Gloria, and songs that can flirt, mourn or protest sit side by side in the catalogue.

Erik Satie

Erik Satie's piano music moves in slow, spare circles. The Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes rest on simple modal melodies and unresolved chords, cool, unhurried and strangely weightless.

Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014) was a Tasmanian-born composer whose orchestral and chamber music drew the Australian landscape, neighbouring Asian traditions and Indigenous materials into a clear, personal language. He wrote extensively for strings, piano and voice.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His ballets, concertos and orchestral works remain among the most widely performed music in the classical repertoire.

Leonid Desyatnikov

Henri Duparc

Henri Duparc left a handful of late-Romantic mélodies that still define the French art song: long-breathed lines, restless piano writing and an almost unbearable concentration of longing set to Baudelaire, Gautier and Goethe.

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Charles Tomlinson Griffes wrote piano, chamber and vocal music that moved from German Romanticism toward a distinctive American Impressionism, rich in colour, exotic atmosphere and synthetic scales.

Peter Klatzow

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann's chamber and piano works speak with lyrical warmth and intimate Romantic colour. Her Notturno and Three Romances, Op. 22, carry melodic lines that sit naturally under the fingers and in the ear, music shaped for the salon and the recital stage.

Jillian Rose Tymms

Jillian Rose Tymms is a dedicated female Australian composer, teacher, and musician, whose artistic journey has been guided by a deep passion for music and a profound connection to the world around her.

Tree drawing

Nicholas Chan

Piano Tuner

Phil Sander

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Sonja Michelini