Complete catalogue
Perth Concert Hall: Ronald Sharp organ
Jangoo Chapkhana plays the Ronald Sharp organ at Perth Concert Hall. The programme spans Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Bach, Balbastre, Langlais, Messiaen and Eben, and closes with Chapkhana’s own Variations on Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.
Elephantasy: Orchestral and Operatic Music of Eve Duncan
Orchestral, chamber and operatic works by Eve Duncan spanning 2012–2018: a piano concerto shaped by the Sydney Opera House, excerpts from her Malouf–James opera The Aspern Papers, and smaller chamber pieces for varied forces.
The Green Brain Cycle
Michael Kieran Harvey’s ninety-two-minute multi-instrument solo cycle draws on Frank Herbert’s 1966 ecological novel The Green Brain, pairing intense keyboard writing with Arjun von Caemmerer’s concrete poetry and spoken passages.
Geoffrey Tozer in Concert: Takapuna 1996
A live 1996 concert from Takapuna captures Geoffrey Tozer with the Auckland Sinfonietta in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, framed by Chopin, Medtner, Schnabel, Gluck, Liszt and Bach.
Geoffrey Tozer in Concert: Osaka 1994
Live from Osaka in 1994, Geoffrey Tozer partners the Osaka Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, then turns to three Liszt piano works.
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.
Magnificat
Douglas Lawrence plays a magnificent recital on the four-manual Rieger organ he designed for The Scots' Church, Melbourne, drawing out the instrument’s full range of colour and power.
Old Wine, New Bottles
Floyd Williams and JANUS illustrate the cross-fertilisation of folk, popular and jazz idioms within classical music. The premise was to play early music of the 14th–16th centuries on modern instruments, free of purist historical constraints.
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.
George Dreyfus ... Live!
In 1978 George Dreyfus staged a live one-man show of his own music, with Paul Grabowsky at electric piano and synthesiser. The long-out-of-print LP has been remastered and reissued on CD.
Organ Miniatures
A collection of 33 short organ works on the 1882 T.C. Lewis organ at St George’s Uniting Church, East St Kilda. The programme samples music written for small pipe organs and harmoniums, from Baroque chorales to twentieth-century miniatures.
Tensile Flame
Michael Kieran Harvey’s two-disc piano programme pairs Liszt’s B minor Sonata and its early twentieth-century echoes in Skryabin, Rachmaninov and Ravel with a second disc of Stravinsky, Carter, Graham Hair and Carl Vine’s 1990 Piano Sonata.
Transcriptions Baroque
Recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne, this disc pairs trumpeter Anthony Pope with organist Dominic Perissinotto across eight Baroque concertos. Four are heard on trumpet with organ accompaniment; the rest are solo organ transcriptions by celebrated organists of their day.
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 Choir of Ormond College Live
A live retrospective for the Choir of Ormond College’s twenty-first year, gathering concert recordings from 1985 to 2000 under Douglas Lawrence, from Britten’s Festival Te Deum and Fauré’s Requiem to Bach, Palestrina, Poulenc and lively encores.
Ambient Voice
Ambient Voice places Dean Frenkel’s haunting harmonic vocals over and within works by outstanding Australian composers, among them Mark Clement Pollard, George Dreyfus, Andrew MacGregor and Invention in Time.
Tuneful Percussion
One of International Record Review’s “Best Discs of 2000”, and nominated for Best Classical CD at the 2001 ARIA Awards. Woof! play Grainger’s complete music for tuneful percussion on authentic instruments, including his own staff bells and steel marimba, with many works previously unrecorded.
Beatus Vir
Recorded live on their 1999 European tour, the Choir of Ormond College under Douglas Lawrence presents small-scale sacred works in up to eight parts by Palestrina, Gesualdo, Handl, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Stanford and Rheinberger.
Songs of Love and Marriage
Benjamin Thorn and Wayne Madden present a journey through 600 years of music on the theme of love. Rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini sit beside the more familiar music of Telemann and Ortiz.
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Recorder player Genevieve Lacey and percussionist Poul Høxbro present a programme spanning medieval dance, Irish folk melody, Baroque virtuosity and contemporary Australian works.
Landscapes of Time
Contemporary sound art of Vietnam: evocative images and haunting effects that stay with the listener. New directions in sound art with Vietnamese colour, drawn from poems, ideas and spirituality.
The Marvellous World of George Dreyfus, Vol. 2
The second volume of marvellous music from one of Australia’s favourite composers, George Dreyfus. The programme ranges across folk ballads, choral suites, film and television themes, chamber works and solo showpieces, and gives a clear view of his many-sided craft.
Mandolin Christmas
Christmas songs for mandolin orchestra. Arguably Australia’s most acclaimed mandolinist, Kurt Jensen leads an international programme of sparkling carols, from mediaeval favourites to modern classics.
Hornocopia
About 110 minutes of French horn music, from classical staples to contemporary scores. Much of the programme sits on the AMEB French Horn syllabus, and several works appear here on CD for the first time – a practical set for students and teachers.
Nullarbor
Three kinetic dance scores by Robert Lloyd for keyboards and percussion, weaving American minimalism and Balinese gamelan into brightly coloured, interlocking rhythms of striking clarity and drive.
Historic Organs of the Barossa Valley, Vol. 2
Christopher Dearnley and John Stiller play seven historic Lutheran church organs of South Australia’s Barossa Valley in the second volume of this survey.
Breath of Creation
Flutes of two worlds. On shakuhachi, baroque flute and recorder, two performers renowned in their own fields join forces in a display of virtuosic delights and evocative sound-scapes.
Orgelbüchlein
Calvin Bowman gives an expert reading of J.S. Bach's Little Organ Book – a microcosm of the composer's inventive and improvisational genius – on the Ahrend organ at Robert Blackwood Hall.
Bards of Faith and Passion
Jim Minchin sets poems by writers at play or at odds with eternity: soul-poet lyrics across the centuries, from anonymous Latin verse and the metaphysicals to Yeats, Shakespeare and living voices.
Just Married: Organ Music for a Wedding
A compilation of history's most celebrated organ music, long popular at weddings. The insert notes usefully group the tracks as processionals, recessionals and music for the signing of the register.
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.
Sonic Archaeologies
Ros Bandt’s electro-acoustic pair Mungo and Thrausmata treat land and ancient Greek text as sonic archaeology. Award-winning works made in the studios of West Deutsche Rundfunk, Cologne.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
The highly acclaimed recording of the Choir of Ormond College's European tour. Includes the amazing choral soundscape I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Australian composer Philip Nunn.
There is an Island
A tuneful, dramatic cantata by Don Kay on Tasmania’s early colonial history and the fate of the full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal people, with Clive Sansom’s lyrics. Paired with George Dreyfus’s The Song of the Maypole.
Night and Dreams
Soprano Merlyn Quaife and guitarist Jochen Schubert present songs by Mozart and Schubert, among them the Serenade and Nacht und Träume, with Spanish and Argentinian folksong settings by Moretti, Gerhard and Guastavino.
Iberian Triangle
La Romanesca presents a portrait of the musical diversity of Spanish song in the years just before the great expulsion and Columbus's voyages: music of Christian, Moorish and Jewish Spain before 1492.
Passage
Tony Lewis composed these scores for the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre between 1986 and 1988. Commissioned for contemporary dance works, they explore meeting points between Aboriginal and European societies and how Aboriginal people engage with modern Australia.
A Florentine Annunciation - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 4
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late-medieval lyric poetry. This volume offers music for the Feast of the Annunciation, performed by Les Six.
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.
Clay Music
Four Melbourne composer-performers as LIME open the 1985 national ceramic conference on Judy Lorraine’s pottery and their own handmade percussion—glass Flagong, marimbas, Farmarimba and plumbaphone.
Carols of Many Nations
There is great variety in the ways people at different times and in different parts of the world spend Christmas. The more we know of Christmas, in former times and throughout the world, the better we can understand the Christmas message.
Italian Organ Masters
Major master organist Sergio de Pieri offers an enjoyable and authoritative survey of Italian organ repertoire by lesser-known masters, from Renaissance dances and ricercari to Zipoli and Frescobaldi.
Festival of Organ Masterpieces
Douglas Lawrence plays favourite organ repertoire on the instrument of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, spanning nearly three centuries of transcriptions and original works.
Sequenza and Other Works by Ian Bonighton
Ian Bonighton’s death at 33 in 1975 cut short one of the most distinctive young voices in Australian composition. This remastered survey gathers his music for choir and organ with tape, percussion, string quartet, solo horn and piano.
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.
Victoria Victoria
A double CD of Victoria’s 150th Gala Choral Concert, given in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, in 1985. A thousand-voice choir and orchestra under Richard Divall frame Léon Caron’s prize-winning Victoria Cantata of 1880.
Reverberations
Originally issued on two LPs and even quadraphonic tape in the early 1970s, this double CD is a limited re-issue of Reverberations One and Two: contemporary works for organ, brass, voices, didjeridu and electronics.
Sing Round the Year
Donald Swann gathers eighteen carols and kindred songs of worship and praise, arguing that a carol need not be confined to Christmas. School choirs, organ and his own piano and voice share the programme.
Move Two Mix: Music for the Contemporary Church
Move Two Mix gathers religious songs and hymns with music by Jim Minchin, marrying familiar sacred texts to jazz- and folk-inflected settings. First issued in 1968, this pioneering Melbourne recording brought contemporary idioms into church worship.
Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes
A collaboration between Duo Langborn/Wendel and The Marais Project, this album blends baroque repertoire, new compositions and arrangements, and folk music from Australia and Sweden.
Enfantines I
Katherine Day’s first solo album gathers piano works by Joachim, Krenek, Granados and Mozart chosen for young players. Her finely sculpted readings treat often-overlooked teaching repertoire with the care usually reserved for the concert canon.
The Night Sky Glory: Songs and Choral Works by Lachlan Brown
Vocal works by Lachlan Brown: songs on poems by Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine and Rainer Maria Rilke, with wordless vocalises and choral meditations for multi-tracked voices.
Impulses
This programme gathers music that inspired Hamish Strathdee during his years in Canberra, Darmstadt and Hamburg from 2013 to 2022. Titled Impulses, it is a small selection from his repertoire: works that carried a strong artistic charge for the guitarist.
Victoria Brass Live
A top-class Australian brass band under Matthew van Emmerik in a full, varied programme of innovative repertoire: two world premieres, three Australasian premieres, and some well-loved classics.
Australian Monody
The Marais Project is joined by countertenor Russell Harcourt for a collection of largely Australian songs and instrumental works, spanning light and darkness, love and loss.
Becoming
Becoming is Johanna Selleck’s hour-long song cycle for soprano, countertenor, bass, shakuhachi and string quartet, setting haiku and renga across French, English and Tibetan.
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.
Fika
Fika is the second album from crossover ensemble Elysian Fields: music shaped for the Swedish custom of gathering with friends over coffee, conversation and something sweet to share.
The Garden Party
The Marais Project’s anniversary disc The Garden Party has a festive flavour, mixing world-premiere Marais arrangements and Eriksson’s title track with earlier Move recordings across French baroque, Swedish folk and South American song.
What should I say
Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, Elysian Fields joins Jenny Eriksson with jazz colleagues Matt Keegan and Matt McMahon in new repertoire that sets Renaissance verse beside contemporary improvisation.
Fairy Tales, Monsters and Wild Animals
Made for young and old, Meredith Connie’s solo guitar performances on this recording have enchanted audiences across two continents, evoking fantastical worlds and speaking to classical and non-classical listeners alike.
Soul
Douglas Lawrence OAM leads the Australian Chamber Choir through sacred music spanning Renaissance polyphony, early Baroque splendour and African-American spirituals.
Smörgåsbord
The Marais Project’s fifth disc gathers Swedish folk, Bellman songs, Roman and Marais chamber works, a jazz pavane and even ABBA, all heard for the first time in Australia on period instruments.
Alchemy
Alicia Crossley, one of Australia’s leading recorder players, presents transcriptions that open classical, romantic, impressionist and contemporary repertoire to tenor and bass recorder.
Lady Sings the Viol
The concept behind Lady Sings the Viol was a CD of “covers”: five singers, alone and together, take songs from 1300 to the present, from Piaf and Schubert to John Paul Jones and Elena Kats-Chernin.
La vida es un pasahe: a life in Sephardic song
Troveresse shapes a life-cycle programme from Sephardic song: cradle and courtship, marriage and mourning, in Ladino traditions that travelled from Spain across Morocco, the Balkans, Greece and the wider Orient.
Fortune My Foe
Roger Heagney’s song cycle Fortune My Foe sets poems by Graeme Ellis. Soprano Merlyn Quaife and pianist Andrea Katz also perform Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39, on this fund-raising recital.
Sing to the Lord, ye Heavenly Hosts
The Choir of The Scots' Church offers sacred music from sixteenth-century Palestrina to twenty-first-century Australian composer Andrew Batterham, crowned by a rare performance of Widor's Mass for choir, baritone choir and two organs.
Zalankara
Jeff Pressing's Zalankara is a multicultural symphony: a wide-ranging, ambitious work dedicated to the refugees and displaced people of the world.
Songs from Georgia
Unique for its sound, melodies, harmonies, polyphony and modes, Georgian music was declared by Igor Stravinsky a stimulus for modern Western music. Australian ensemble Golden Fleece collects, teaches and researches this tradition, painting a vivid portrait of a rich cultural heritage.
Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart gathers music for piano duet, two and three pianos from France and Australia. At its centre is the first Australian recording of Max Bruch’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
Te Deum
Conductor André de Quadros assembles six highly acclaimed choirs, the New Monash Orchestra, tenor soloist Dwayne Jones and organist Linda Kent for Berlioz’s monumental Te Deum.
Step Back Sally
Traditional folk songs from many cultures, arranged for percussion, piano, recorder, guitar, harp, violin, mandolin and voices. An Orff-influenced music education resource meant to stimulate listening, dancing, moving and creating.
Salut d'Amour
Concordia Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble offers a warm European tour for plucked strings, crowned by Elgar's Salut d'Amour in an arrangement for mandolin orchestra.
The Rainmaker
From jazz to Celtic, Middle Eastern folk to contemporary classical, ambience to the tango, The Rainmaker gathers an eclectic spread of influences into one guitar-led programme of original pieces.
The life in between
Michael Kieran Harvey anchors this solo piano programme with Martin Friedel’s final work, …the life in between…, then sets it among virtuoso scores by Pertout, Crossman, Spiers, Selleck and McAlley.
Jan Friedl sings Brecht
Jan Friedl and pianist James Voss present Bertolt Brecht theatre songs with music by Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau, among the sharpest of the twentieth century.
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.
The Other Side of Tony Gould
Tony Gould is best known as a jazz pianist and improviser. This recording turns to his classical side: original concert works written over two decades, with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in a four-hand piano version.
War Sonatas
Three piano sonatas by Michael Kieran Harvey, written as a response to twenty-first-century war. Spoken poems by Arjun von Caemmerer stand between the works, framing a triptych of anger, friendship and warning.
Threnody
Michael Kieran Harvey’s landmark 1995 Astra recital of late twentieth-century Australian piano music returns in a 2024 Move re-master. Premiere recordings by Harvey, Vine, Campbell, McCaughey, Byrne, Humble and Anderson form one continuous programme.
Bach to China with Yu
Volume 3 of Julian Yu’s clarinet music, with Robert Schubert and ensemble in arrangements that join Chinese folk melody to Western classical craft.
Crossing Paths
Ensemble Liaison and the Tony Gould Trio take turns across the programme: each piece is heard first in a scored reading, then in an improvised jazz response that opens the same melodic and harmonic material to fresh colour.
The Sparrow and the Mead Hall
Composed and mostly performed by Michael Kieran Harvey, these 2021 works move from the rarefied extended techniques of Piano Sonata #7 and Liszt–Busoni bravura in the Four Ballades to bebop wit in Lawyers… and metal-edged satire in Death Cap Mushroom.
Where have you been all these years?
Claire Patti (vocal and harp), Louise Godwin (cello) and Tony Gould (piano) join in a warm tribute to musical friendship, bringing fresh interpretive colour to traditional songs they love.
Light in dark
Light in dark gathers Tom Henry’s solo piano works across two decades. The newly recorded programme moves through jazz and pop colour, renaissance polyphony, and twentieth-century modernism.
Works for String Orchestra
Seventeen years after David Joseph’s Selected Works, Vol. 2 won wide critical acclaim, Works for String Orchestra gathers previously unreleased recordings, remastered for this album and showing his vivid, evocative style for strings.
Catalogue des Errances Bibliques
Michael Kieran Harvey’s epic Catalogue des Errances Bibliques deploys eight keyboardists and four percussionists with spoken narration by Arjun von Caemmerer: twenty-five musical pieces alternating with twenty-five short narratives.
Uncovered Ground
This first collection of concert works by Felicity Wilcox gathers the cream of her chamber music from 2014 to 2018. It opens with the celebrated bass clarinet solo People of this Place, written for Jason Noble, and includes commissions for Ensemble Offspring, Ironwood and the Australia Ensemble, plus a movement from her first string quartet.
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.
Piano Sonata #6: 17 Graeme Lee Prints
Composed and performed by Michael Kieran Harvey in the 2020 pandemic, Piano Sonata #6 answers seventeen mixed-media prints Graeme Lee made that July. Music, image and Arjun von Caemmerer’s aphorisms remain sharply individual yet bound as one series.
Greta
Michael Kieran Harvey’s fifth piano sonata appears in a conventional piano reading and an electric keyboard interpretation. Subtitled Greta for climate activist Greta Thunberg, it is also tagged ‘Concerto in no need of an orchestra’.
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 2
Derek Jones (flute) and Cameron Roberts (piano) present a programme of Australian works by Anne Boyd, Stuart Greenbaum, Rohan Phillips, Mark Pollard and Richard Meale.
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.
PRTZL
This release of original compositions by Harvey centres on the monumental Piano Sonata No. 4, a homage to the anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci. That theme runs through solo and ensemble works whose moods range from nostalgically whimsical to furiously satirical.
Meditation
John Sangster’s Meditation, first issued on vinyl around 1980, is an ethereal set of flute, wind-chime and marimba textures. Over three long pieces the music builds a serene, otherworldly atmosphere meant for quiet listening.
Dancing to the Tremors of Time
A collection of music reflecting the art of Mona – eclectic, surreal and powerful. Michael Kieran Harvey performs new works for solo piano by seven Australian composers.
Music from 4 to 40 Parts
Angeli Vocal Ensemble, pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, chamber choir Ensemble Gombert and the Four Seasons String Quartet perform Melbourne composer Vaughan McAlley’s music. The programme explores writing from four parts up to forty, in his distinctive approach to counterpoint.
50 Chinese Folk Songs
The first of two collections on this disc, 50 Chinese Folk Songs, presents Julian Yu’s piano arrangements of well-known Chinese melodies. Fifteen further early piano pieces mix song arrangements with original writing. All 65 tracks are played by Ke Lin.
Luz Meridional (Southern Light)
A CD with bonus DVD. Luz Meridional was composed by Andrián Pertout for pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. Its twenty-four solo piano études each contain a quotation from an early Australian composer.
Life Cycle
Life Cycle traces the emotional journey of impending motherhood in music by the highly regarded British composer Emily Hall and words by the acclaimed poet Toby Litt. Gian Slater (vocals), Sonya Lifschitz (piano) and Zoe Knighton (cello) present the cycle.
Trio Polyphonica
Trio Polyphonica was active from 1980 to 1990, with a repertoire spanning more than three centuries. This recording gathers chamber trios by Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, J.S. Bach and Francesco Zappa.
The 7 Great Inventions of the Modern Industrial Age
This award-winning dramatic work by Sally Greenaway, performed by Syzygy Ensemble, explores the surge of twentieth-century invention and its consequences for humanity.
Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Vol. 2
Catchy short pieces by Julian Yu for clarinet with string quartet, and with cello and piano: playful settings that braid Chinese folksong with oddly familiar classical themes, including Dvořák and Mozart.
Spirit Wind
Flautist Derek Jones presents seven free-flowing improvisations inspired by a universal spirit shared across musical cultures, layering flute lines over synthesiser soundscapes, drones and deep gamelan-like bells.
Northern Cello
Music for cello from northern European composers. Zoe Knighton and pianist Ian Munro centre the programme on Grieg’s romantic sonata, with Sibelius’s Op. 78 pieces, Vasks’s solo Gramata Cellam and Pärt’s Fratres.
Cutetudes
Cutetudes (‘cute’ + ‘études’) is a set of twenty short, classically related and humorous piano pieces Julian Yu wrote on commission from pianist Ke Lin.
Aporia
Michael Kieran Harvey performs his third piano sonata in the company of four contemporary Australian works that show the range of Australia’s twenty-first-century musical languages.
Clairaudient
This is percussionist Claire Edwardes’ fifth CD. Clairaudience is clear hearing, or the ability to perceive sound from outside sources, often in the spirit world. Psychics who are clairaudient hear voices, sounds or music that are not audible to the normal ear.
Elegy: Reflections on the music of Peter Tahourdin
A companion to the Australian composer's other Move CD Exposé, this album showcases solo pieces for cello and flute, electronic scores, and small ensemble works.
Christmas Around the Piano
Tony Gould offers reflective improvised solo-piano versions of familiar Christmas songs and carols. Played without hurry and coloured by personal memory, each tune is treated as living music rather than seasonal decoration alone.
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.
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.
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).
Women He's Undressed
Cezary Skubiszewski's soundtrack for the documentary on Australian costume designer and three-time Oscar winner Orry-Kelly is full of variety. It ranges across popular twentieth-century styles, with never a dull moment.
Remembering Gallipoli
Premiere recordings of two Australian works—one contemporary, one nearly a century old—mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings. Thomas Jones (violin), Laura Chislett Jones (bass flute) and Rachel Valler perform.
Piano Inside Out
Internationally acclaimed Australian pianist Zubin Kanga releases his first CD with Move Records, Piano Inside Out. It presents seven innovative solo piano works by Australian composers, commissioned by Kanga and shaped in close collaboration with him over several years.
Geoffrey Tozer in Concert: Auckland 1990
Recorded live with the Auckland Symphonia under Vladimir Verbitsky, Geoffrey Tozer plays Rachmaninov’s complete Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Unfold: Sequence for solo cello
This thirteen-minute work by Don Banks was recorded alongside the Kreutzer Quartet’s Unfold album. Time limits kept the track off that CD, so it appears here as a separate release.
Amir Farid plays Javad Maroufi
Javād Maroufi was among the first composers of piano music in Persia, celebrated for his contribution to Persian classical music. Born in Tehran to musician parents Musa and Ezra Maroufi – both pupils of Darvish Khan – he lost his mother young, was raised by his father, and learned violin and tar from an early age.
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.
Timeless
The title Timeless marks Tamara Smolyar’s personal reading of classic piano works she has lived with since childhood, offered for family and listeners alike, and the music’s power to cross generations and cultures.
Fluteman
John Sangster wrote the score for the little-known 1982 Australian film Fluteman. Led by Don Burrows on flute, with eight other jazz players, the music makes wonderful listening quite apart from the picture.
The Messiaen Nexus
This disc offers an extraordinary insight into the intellectual and creative talent of a fertile period at the Paris Conservatoire. Centred on Olivier Messiaen, the programme of violin and piano works traces his influence on students György Kurtág, George Benjamin and Pierre Boulez, and the mark of his teacher Paul Dukas.
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.
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.
Such a Sky
Such a Sky gathers live Salon performances from the Melbourne Recital Centre. Cellist Imogen Manins and pianist Tony Gould are joined by Slava Grigoryan, David Jones, Gian Slater, Riley Lee and Eugene Ughetti.
Bach Motets
The Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, performs motets by J.S. Bach with works by Johann Michael Bach and Johann Christoph Bach.
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.
Joy to the World
Christmas at the Sydney Town Hall, presented annually by the City of Sydney, began in 1978 when Robert Ampt became the fourth Sydney City Organist. The event has since grown into one of the city’s major Christmas celebrations.
Kenneth Leighton: Music for Violin and Piano
Winner of Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s personal best for 2014, this recording presents the premiere of neglected masterpieces for violin and piano, opening a distinctive duo sound world.
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.
Beethoven Cello
Cellists often bemoan the lack of a cello concerto by Beethoven – and rightly so, but these eight works for cello and piano are the envy of many other instruments. The complete cello sonatas and variations of Beethoven are here on this two-CD set.
The Ring of Bone
While the past decade has seen recordings of Elisabeth Lutyens’ chamber and choral works released to critical acclaim, her piano music has remained obscure. Pianist Arabella Teniswood-Harvey has carefully researched and here presents that neglected repertoire.
Kinetic Conversations
A set of free improvisations by composer–pianist Keith Humble and American double-bass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky, taped in 1986. Two new-music pioneers meet in spontaneous, high-energy dialogue for piano and bass.
China Wind: the clarinet music of Julian Yu, Vol. 1
Five chamber and concertante works for clarinet with strings, piano and flute show Julian Yu drawing on the inner structures of Chinese tradition rather than its surface colour, with remarkable versatility and emotional range.
Argentine Cello
More than Piazzolla alone: seven Argentine composers shape a cello-and-piano programme of tango, pampas colour and lyric nationalism, played by Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid.
Home
Pianist Tony Gould and singer Emma Gilmartin offer intimate voice-and-piano readings of cherished songs, including three Gould originals, centred on home, family and childhood memory.
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.
48 Fugues for Frank
A musical homage to the life and work of Frank Zappa, composed and performed by Michael Kieran Harvey, and complemented by Lingua Franka – concrete poetry by Arjun von Caemmerer.
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.
Sombras: The Music of Astor Piazzolla
La Tin Shed Orquesta presents the music of Astor Piazzolla, whose compositions from the 1930s to 1990 redefined the tango. His celebrated Quintet of the 1970s gave the world ‘Tango Nuevo’, drawing classical and jazz influences into the Argentine form.
North of the Yarra: Organs of Melbourne
Gordon Atkinson plays seven of Melbourne's finest organs, from the oldest surviving city instrument to the giant Town Hall organ, including St Patrick's Cathedral, The Scots' Church, St Paul's Cathedral and St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne.
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.
Veiled Virtuosity
Amir Farid’s debut solo recording, made after his win at the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, ranges from Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata and works by Brahms, Liszt and Prokofiev to Australian scores by Stuart Greenbaum and Carl Vine, with two pieces by Iranian composer Javad Maroufi.
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.
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.
More Bizarre or baRock
"The hottest, hippest harpsichord in the world today," said one critic of the best-selling Bizarre or baRock. Melbourne harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson returns with the long-awaited sequel.
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.
The School of Natural Philosophy
Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard by Graham Hair, Douglas Knehans, Martin Friedel, Richard Meale and Hilda Paredes, linking science, landscape and modernist piano writing.
Midsummer's Night
Jonathan Paget’s solo guitar recital traces an enchanted night-world of magic, mischief and romance, from Walton’s sparkling Five Bagatelles through Barrios’s Paraguayan dreamscapes to Sculthorpe’s Aboriginal dreaming.
Uttered Nonsense (The Owl and the Pussycat)
Uttered Nonsense (The Owl and the Pussycat) sets eight Edward Lear poems, spoken with grave poise by Ivan Smith, among fourteen instrumental jazz pieces drawn from the Nonsense Books. Sangster’s large Australian ensemble answers the verse with playful colour.
Quiet on the Bridge
Like the group's earlier releases, this disc ranges across electronic and electro-acoustic music, contemporary chamber writing, interactive computer pieces, open indeterminate works and improvisation.
The Remarkable Norman Kaye
Move Records has gathered material for this CD paying tribute to the wonderful Norman Kaye. The main focus is the musician and organist, without forgetting his acting career.
In the Time of Sakura: The Piano Music of Mike Nock
Michael Kieran Harvey plays twenty-seven fully notated piano pieces by Mike Nock. Eclectic in range, they draw on long-standing repertoire and new work written for this collection, a sonic diary shaped by jazz, classical and personal influence.
KAPPA
Italian chamber group Trio Altrove 1.3 joins six Australian composers of contemporary classical music – Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Brendan Colbert, Philip Czaplowski, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner – in a programme of works written or arranged for the ensemble.
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.
Preludes and Sonata of Messiaen and Shostakovich
Michael Kieran Harvey, piano. Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) were two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. Both were remarkable in that they discovered their own unique and distinctive creative voice when they were in their teens.
Origami
Music from BalletLab’s dance work Origami, premiered in Melbourne on 13 July 2006. David Chisholm’s score, partly electronic and partly for Silo Quartet, was nominated for the 2006 Green Room Awards.
Laughing
The internationally acclaimed Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, turns to the lighter side of a cappella singing across jazz, madrigal and spiritual repertoire.
Cosmosis
The album explores the many combinations throat singing can take. Dean Frenkel pairs overtone singing with a children’s choir, guitar and mandolin, Australian birds, contemporary piano, vibraphone duet, and a female vocal duo in song form.
Anna Magdalena Bach's Book
Harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson and boy soprano Jacob Lawrence present the complete musical contents of the 1725 notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, from the beloved Bist du bei mir to suites, chorales and the aria later known from the Goldberg Variations.
David Joseph Selected Works, Vol. 2
The second volume of David Joseph’s selected works brings together the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of Melbourne, and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in three substantial late-twentieth-century scores.
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.
Catalogue d'oiseaux
Virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey’s dazzling pianistic pyrotechnics are on full display in this live performance recorded in Hobart in April 2005. Each of the thirteen pieces in Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux explores the calls and environment of a single bird species.
Songe
Emma Gilmartin’s follow-up to her collaboration with Tony Gould, Tomorrow, just you wait and see, is a poised jazz vocal set: standards, two of her own songs, and a clear, understated delivery.
On the Wings of a Butterfly
Cross-cultural music by Australian composers. This 2005 collection from Lê Tuấn Hùng gathers works by Ros Bandt, Brigid Burke, Warren Burt, Deborah Kayser and others, and was nominated for an ARIA Award.
Chinese Whispers and other contemporary dance music
Piano works by leading contemporary composers from Australia and China, played by Gabriella Smart. The programme ranges across prepared piano, film-related pieces and dance-inspired solos by Griswold, Tan Dun, Curran, Jia Daqun, Nyman and others.
Ephemeral Densities
ephemeral densities is re-sound's third CD, devoted to new Australian work by members Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner. It brings together contemporary chamber writing, computer music and popular electronic idioms.
Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields
Fifteen historic organs from the Ballarat region are heard on this disc, released to mark the 2005 Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields festival. A fully illustrated 16-page booklet surveys the builders, churches, instruments, music and performers.
Great Hall Grandeur
Amy Johansen plays the Rudolf von Beckerath organ in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Great Hall Grandeur presents one of Australia’s most beautiful and versatile pipe organs – among Beckerath’s last masterpieces – in the hands of one of the country’s finest concert organists.
Sing Together Alleluia
Hymns sung by the Sing Alleluia Music Ministry Team, drawn from Sing Alleluia, appear in Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II. The selection favours material not already on the earlier two-disc companion set.
Conversations
The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.
Rabid Bay
Michael Kieran Harvey is one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music of his generation. This recording presents some of Australia's cutting-edge piano music – bold and experimental, but also increasingly lyrical.
Jacinta's Song
ARIA-winning pianist Andrea Keller, guitarist Steve Magnusson and percussionist Peter Neville join multi-saxophonist and composer Jenny Game-Lopata on Jacinta's Song, a set of original works for the Jenny Game Ensemble.
Organ at an Exhibition
West Australian organist Dominic Perissinotto’s first solo Move disc pairs Guilmant, Schumann and Mussorgsky on the Grand Organ of the Basilica of St Patrick, Fremantle.
Hard Chamber
A retrospective of chamber works by Melbourne contemporary composer Thomas Reiner, written for varied small forces. Soloists from Monash University and ensemble re-sound present music that asks for close, unconditioned listening.
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.
The Rage in Placid Lake (Original Soundtrack)
Bossa nova meets hip hop on this soundtrack by the award-winning Australian composer of Two Hands, Bootmen and After the Deluge – Cezary Skubiszewski – complete with bonus remixes by the Melbourne outfit Jacket.
Golden Sounds
Ian King returns to the studio to enthral us once more with the golden sounds of his tuba, in arrangements of Falla, Corelli, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin and more.
Hearing Place
Ten sound artists and composers from around the world respond to notions of place. With binaural sound, electroacoustic composition and field recordings, Hearing Place journeys the acoustic environment and our internal response to it.
Prism
Years in the making, Tabula Rasa’s debut Prism blends thought-provoking lyrics with a strikingly original mix of classical, Celtic and jazz, coloured by Spanish influences and Brazilian rhythms.
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.
McJad Goes Organic
Those who knew the Melbourne jazz scene of the 1970s will fondly remember McJad, the free-improvising duo of trumpeter Keith Hounslow and pianist Tony Gould. This double CD pairs a new pipe-organ session with a bonus reissue of their original LPs: a true collector's item.
Carillon and Organ
Enjoy the spectacular sound of organ and carillon as never before. Recorded at the University of Sydney, this disc features organist Amy Johansen and master carillonneur Jill Forrest in music drawn from the University's ceremonial life.
The 12 Days of Christmas
The Choir of Ormond College sings carols long held in affection around the world, and pairs them with newer works, accompanied by renowned Australian pianist Stephen McIntyre.
Tomorrow, just you wait and see
Pianist Tony Gould and vocalist Emma Gilmartin share a programme of standards and originals, shaped as first-take, spontaneously conceived duets. Favourites sit beside less familiar songs, all chosen for melodic beauty and meaning.
Little Wing: Standards Inspired by Angels
Tried-and-true jazz standards fashioned around the theme of angels. Vocalist Debra Blaquiere is joined by award-winning pianist Joe Chindamo and bassist Philip Rex.
africussia
Innovative ensemble d'volv, formed in 1999, pairs electric, steel-string and nylon-string guitars in original works drawing on Spain, Ireland, contemporary art music, blues and jazz.
Scent of Time
Six Australian composers take Asian instruments and voices beyond their own traditions. From dan tranh and sheng to shakuhachi and erhu, the programme is cross-cultural concert music at its most exploratory.
In C
Melbourne ensemble re-sound gives Terry Riley's minimalist landmark In C its first electroacoustic reading, folding chamber forces into beats, sequences and electric bass and guitar.
Venice to Versailles
Venice and Versailles stand for the two dominant Baroque styles in Europe: Venice for the robust, joyous exuberance and barocco character of the Italian manner, and Versailles for the refinement, delicacy, elegance and douceur of the French.
Devils of the Night
On this, his first CD for Move Records, Tasmanian composer and didjeridu virtuoso Ron Nagorcka is joined by long-time collaborator Robert Williams, the Melbourne pianist, educator and co-composer.
Pablo
Melbourne a cappella sextet Pablo make their Move debut with pop, folk and spirituals. Close harmony takes in Billy Joel, The Beatles, sea shanties and gospel-tinged arrangements.
Wordless Meanings
In the beginning there was harmony – before anyone asked “What sort of music do you play?”, before everyone grew too busy to listen, before music became ‘the industry’. Somewhere along the way, harmony was lost in a cacophony of meaningless words.
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.
Beethoven Moonlight
You may have been fortunate enough to hear pianist Ronald Farren-Price performing Beethoven in past years. Over seven years in the making, he has completed his long-awaited recording of selected, much-loved Beethoven piano works. This first album in the two-volume set opens the survey.
stack
In Stack, Ros Bandt turns Melbourne’s CityLink exhaust chimney into a living instrument. Site recordings, electrified steel and unusual acoustic sources become a sixty-minute electroacoustic portrait of an industrial space now silenced.
The Rieger at Scots'
So just what does one play to demonstrate the resources of a large, beautifully voiced new organ? Douglas Lawrence sets out the wide tonal palette of the Rieger at The Scots' Church, Melbourne, completed in 1999.
Ráfaga
Award-winning Melbourne guitarist Owen Thomson presents a selection of Spanish virtuoso guitar works from the twentieth century, with music by Joaquín Turina, Federico Mompou and Joaquín Rodrigo.
The Convict Harpsichordist
John Grant, frustrated in love, shot a London lawyer in the buttock and was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey. Granted a reprieve, he reached Sydney Cove in 1804 with Australia’s first harpsichord. What music did he play? Elizabeth Anderson answers on the instrument he brought.
Intuition
Intuition is the Move debut of Italian guitarist–composer Rosario De Marco. Solo guitar pieces of quiet, reflective character draw on flamenco, jazz, classical, folk and popular traditions, and carry the warmth of the southern Mediterranean.
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).
Serenades (Original Soundtrack)
Davood A. Tabrizi's haunting score for Mojgan Khadem's film Serenades was extended in the studio so the album stands alone, away from the motion picture, as a complete listening experience.
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.
A Souldiers Resolution: The First Part of Ayres
Countertenor Christopher Field and viol player Miriam Morris present Tobias Hume’s The First Part of Ayres (1605), the first English collection devoted exclusively to the lyra viol and bass viol, ranging from bawdy humour to fashionable melancholy.
A Shropshire Lad
Baritone Blake Fischer and pianist Claire Cooper, winners of the 1998 Song Recital Award, present English and American folk, traditional and art songs by Butterworth, Copland, Finzi and Britten.
Prayer Dances
Recorded in the Concert Hall of the Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle, Christian Heim's debut Move disc presents Nicholas Routley directing the Sydney Chamber Choir and Sprung Percussion in the two sacred Prayer Dances and other premiere works.
The Star of the Sea
A superb programme of Italian and French organ favourites, shaped to draw on every resource of the celebrated George Fincham grand organ at St Mary's Star-of-the-Sea, West Melbourne.
Australian Songs
A comprehensive survey of Richard Peter Maddox’s vocal music, with the composer at the Stuart & Sons piano, joined by soprano Samantha Smith and, in the closing cycle, his brother Graham Maddox on oboe.
Tuba Recital
One of the world’s finest tuba players, and the first to give a tuba recital in Australia, Ian King presents a programme from Bach and Vivaldi through to Paul Hindemith’s remarkable Sonata for Tuba and Piano.
Music of the Spanish Renaissance
La Compañia's first CD gathers seventeen Spanish Renaissance works on period instruments with soprano Vivien Hamilton, including cues heard in the film Elizabeth but omitted from its commercial soundtrack.
Yes, It Rings a Bell!
Adrian Tien takes Australia’s National Carillon in Canberra through a wide-ranging programme: Bach and Gershwin, folk airs, carillon originals, and music from some of today’s finest carillon composers.
A Handful of Rain
Inspired by Javanese gamelan and Japanese Shinto music, Mark Clement Pollard's ambient concert works pursue beauty and simplicity. A Handful of Rain gathers this acclaimed Australian composer's popular style from the mid-1990s.
Tyrannick Love
The Orpheus Ensemble with Vivien Hamilton. Songs for soprano, harpsichord, baroque cello (viola da gamba and baroque violins on occasion), each written for famous singers and actresses in popular Restoration dramas of late 17th-century England.
ABC of American Art Song
Melanie Duncan blitzed the 1999 Mietta Song Recital Award, taking the Popular Choice award and the Musical Partnership with accompanist Claire Cooper as well as the Award itself. This is her recital of twentieth-century American art song.
Concert Organ Masterpieces
Masterpieces from the concert organ repertoire, played by Thomas Heywood on the restored Hill organ at St John’s Church, Toorak. The programme draws on his 1997 Grand Organ Concerts at the church.
O Rose So Red
Melbourne-based Schola Cantorum, directed by Gary Ekkel, present chants, songs and motets that honour the Virgin Mary across more than a thousand years of sacred repertoire.
La Prima Stravaganza
Sonatas of 17th-century Italy from Capella Corelli: a window on instrumental music as it found its own voice, from the experimental works of Cima, Castello, Montalbano, Fontana, Frescobaldi, Marini and Uccellini through to Corelli.
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.
Via Frescobaldi
Seventeenth-century Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi was at once conservative and innovative. La Romanesca presents improvisatory toccatas, imitative polyphonic instrumental works, and songs from his arie musicali of 1630.
Exposé
This album spans nearly a quarter of a century of Peter Tahourdin’s chamber music, from 1971 to 1995. The works chart his compositional metamorphosis and draw on a wide range of influences and themes, from the structural procedures of Indian raga to texts from the Carmina Burana.
Bright Tracks
Winner of the 1998 ABC Classic FM Listeners’ Choice Award, this double CD gathers chamber music by Brenton Broadstock, one of Australia’s most established and respected composers.
Adele Johnston sings Wagner and Korngold Lieder
Adele Johnston, 1997 winner of the City of Melbourne Song Recital Award, sings rarely heard Wagner and Korngold lieder with pianist Andrew Greene, including Australian and world premiere recordings.
Kodály Missa Brevis
Recorded on their 1997 European tour in Northern Italy and Germany, the Choir of Ormond College sings Kodály’s Missa Brevis, with works by Tye, Howells and Bach.
Echoes of Ancestral Voices
Le Tuan Hung and Dang Kim Hien present traditional Vietnamese classical and folk music on Echoes of Ancestral Voices, following their earlier Move disc Landscapes of Time.
A Classic Case of Love
Soprano Helen Noonan and guitarist Peter Constant present an intimate programme of love songs spanning centuries, from folk and early music to Schubert, Satie, Villa-Lobos and the twentieth-century stage and songbook.
Merry Christmas
Elizabeth Anderson and friends put a fresh twist on Christmas carols: eight tracks packaged as a Christmas card, with a vibrant cover and space for a personal inscription.
Light on the Edge
The landscape and atmosphere of Australia come to life in this varied collection of solo and chamber guitar works by Australian composer Phillip Houghton.
Nardoo
Nardoo weave original improvisations from jazz, ethnic and medieval strands. Zana Clarke and Peter Biffin play new and traditional wind and string instruments on this debut of haunting, cross-cultural duo music.
John Heuzenroeder sings Mozart
Tenor John Heuzenroeder, winner of the 1996 City of Melbourne Song Recital Award, joins pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith in a recital of Mozart songs both celebrated and rarely heard.
The Bedroom of the King (La Chambre du Roi)
Elysium Ensemble bring French chamber music of the early 18th century into the private apartments of Louis XIV: Couperin and Hotteterre in the douceur of Versailles and the Paris salons.
Redror
Six chamber works by Australian composer Michael Whiticker, recorded by the Libra Contemporary Ensemble. The programme ranges from solo guitar to mixed ensemble and works with tape.
Essentially Australian
A programme of original compositions for carillon, with transcriptions and arrangements that share an Australian connection, played on Canberra’s National Carillon.
Music from Heaven
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, in a highly acclaimed programme of unaccompanied sacred works by Allegri, Byrd, Poulenc, Britten, Barber and J.S. Bach.
Bizarre or baRock
Elizabeth Anderson explores harpsichord music across four centuries: from Conceição’s raw 17th-century battle piece and traditional Baroque repertoire to jazz, blues, Gershwin and the Beatles with drums and bass. Weird, wild, wacky and wonderful – you’ve never heard the harpsichord like this.
Courts in Colour
Traditional melodies from four important courts of the Middle Ages: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Gaon of Tiberias, Saladin of Egypt, and Alfonso X of Castile and León. Cantigas bring them to life on authentic mediæval instruments.
20th Century Piano Trios
Highly acclaimed Trio Melbourne presents 20th Century Piano Trios, a collection of rarely heard and newly recorded works that includes first recordings of pieces by Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Julian Yu.
The Fair Dinkum Matilda
Songs of the Australian bush, including the first ever recording of the original Craigielea setting of Waltzing Matilda. Another disc of bush songs? You bet – and brought to life by one of Australia’s most respected folk singers, Denis Gibbons.
WindSong
Eric Klay brings his bass trombone centre-stage in a varied selection of stylish classic, contemporary, and big band pieces.
Mistika
Composer and keyboardist Linda Ceff sets past and present inspirations beside her own contemporary works. Homages to Stravinsky, Messiaen and Skryabin sit with multi-tracked piano, synthesised colour, bells and Asian-inflected writing.
The Virtuoso Harpsichord
Melbourne harpsichordist Jacqueline Ogeil presents the instrument’s virtuosic, dramatic and passionate sides, from Bach and Scarlatti to Handel, Rameau and the premiere of Naji Hakim’s suite Shasta.
Music for the Countess of Sandwich
First Australian release of Charles Dieupart’s complete suites for flûte du voix and harpsichord (1701), including two suites later copied by J. S. Bach.
Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra
A prize-winning Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra programme of easy-listening classical works, with guitar soloist Slava Grigoryan and other featured players under Fred Witt.
With Tenderness, With Fire
Ronald Farren-Price encores his hugely popular Reflections with this solo recital, ranging from the sublime beauty of a Beethoven Adagio to the thundering splendour of Prokofiev’s Toccata.
Historic Organs of the Barossa Valley, Vol. 1
Christopher Dearnley and John Stiller give striking performances on six historic church organs of South Australia’s Barossa Valley. A 16-page booklet traces the instruments, their builders and the music.
Louise Page sings Richard Strauss
Soprano Louise Page, with pianist Phillipa Candy, sings lyrical and romantic Strauss lieder spanning early Op. 10 songs, the Op. 48 cycle, the Ophelia songs and the late Fünf kleine Lieder. Winner of the 1995 City of Melbourne Song Recital Award.
Travellers' Tapestry
Cantigas weave mediæval and folk-based music from Europe, Asia and the Middle East into a tapestry of trade-route exchange, played on recorder, percussion and early string instruments.
What if a Day or a Month or a Year
Elizabethan lute songs and Ayres sung by Gerald English, a founding member of the Deller Consort, with Jonathan Rubin on lute and Sharyn Wicks on gamba.
Centenary Plus
Sydney City Organist Robert Ampt plays the restored William Hill and Son Grand Organ at Sydney Town Hall in a programme spanning more than a century of music linked with the instrument, from Handel and Bach to Koehne, Dubois, Best and Ampt.
Hæc Dies
Easter at Notre Dame, Paris, c.1220. Music for Easter Sunday Mass as it may have been heard at Notre Dame early in the thirteenth century: chant propers, a complete ordinary cycle in two-part Leoninus-style settings, and three-part organum in the style of Perotin.
Torquing Points
An exciting juxtaposition of 20th-century Australian and 19th-century European styles. Gordon Kerry's Torquing Points for String Quartet and Mark Pollard's The Quick or the Dead sit approachably beside the classical works on this programme.
Songs and Praises
Favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book, Vol. 3. Choir and organ fill Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne, with the thrilling sound that hymn lovers know so well.
Quivering String
Four composer-performers of Back to Back Zithers weave Vietnamese, Sundanese and mediaeval European strands into new Australian chamber music for zithers, flutes, voice and found sound.
Silk and Spice
Cantigas follow the mediæval Silk Road in dance, monophonic song and improvisation. Recorders, rebec, vielle, oud, lute and percussion carry music shaped by Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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.
Footsteps
The sound of feet on the earth’s surface is a reminder of how location shapes our lives. Ros Bandt’s journey of place, from Western Australia and Florida to suburban Melbourne, is unlike anything else on record.
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.
Musical Transfiguration
An acoustic journey across Vietnamese soundscapes, from majestic court music and the subtle flow of lullabies to chanted poetry, classical chamber music and lively village festival songs.
Melbourne Sounds Grand
Thomas Heywood’s first commercial recording presents the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Concert Organ in a grand-concert programme of virtuoso showpieces and transcriptions, chosen to display its orchestral colour, dynamics and power.
Reflections
Internationally acclaimed pianist Ronald Farren-Price offers superb performances of some of the greatest music written for the piano, in a wide-ranging recital of favourite short works.
Captain Quaver's Merry Go Rounds
A cheerful set of nursery rhymes and songs for little folk, mixing traditional favourites with pieces by Lorraine Milne, Malvina Reynolds and others. First issued in 1969 and reissued by Move in 1990.
A Night at the Opera
Highly acclaimed wind arrangements of favourite operatic excerpts, given as they were heard in Vienna between 1792 and 1821, when Harmonie ensembles carried the latest stage hits beyond the opera house.
I Can Tell The World
Saucy Purcell rounds, madrigals, drinking songs, spirituals and English folk settings from one of Australia's finest choirs, directed by Douglas Lawrence.
Horn Destinations
Horn player Richard Runnels presents a wide-ranging recital for horn and keyboard, joined by Brachi Tilles and Tony Gould in repertoire from French divertissements to Australian and jazz-inflected works.
Pacific Sound
Colin Offord's Pacific Sound presents musical landscapes built from everyday objects and his own invented instruments of metal, bamboo, timber, bells and shells, evoking oceans, wind, rain and Pacific wildlife.
Bach Byrd Britten
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, presents Bach, Byrd and Britten. Bach’s motet Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden and Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices stand beside Britten’s Five Flower Songs and A Ceremony of Carols.
Maurice Duruflé: Organ Music
Sydney organist Edward Theodore, a pupil of Maurice Duruflé, performs the French master's complete organ works on the magnificent organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, in six pieces crowned by the celebrated Prélude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on the Theme of the 'Veni Creator', Op. 4.
Just For The Record
Renowned jazz singer Linda Cable gathers moody ballads and up-tempo standards in a polished set that moves from cool and slinky to full swing.
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.
Sydney Carter In Concert
Poet and songwriter Sydney Carter visited Australia in 1972 for concerts and workshops across the country. This recording captures one of those live events in full, preserving his wry, questioning songs as they were heard on the tour.
I am Music - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 3
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late medieval lyric poetry. Songs by Francesco Landini, performed by the Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century.
Every Delight and Fair Pleasure - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 2
Northern Italian music from the second decade of the 14th century to the early 15th. Anonymous Rossi manuscript songs sit beside madrigals and ballatas by Maestro Piero and Bartolino da Padova.
Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 1
Two Gentlemen of Verona gathers secular polyphony from the first known generation of Italian composers. This volume presents madrigals, caccie and a motet by Jacopo da Bologna and Giovanni da Firenze.
Images
Prudence Davis, Jeffrey Crellin and Peter Lynch in French salon and Impressionist chamber music for flute, oboe and guitar: Fauré and Ravel pavanes, Giuliani’s Serenade, Coste miniatures, Ponce’s Sonata III, Debussy’s Syrinx and Rêverie, and Duarte folk settings.
Listen to the Band, Vol. 3
A musical experience for children, this recording follows on from Volumes 1 and 2 of the series with Australia's best-known bush band, Cobbers.
Listen to the Band, Vol. 1
It has been apparent for some time that of all the children’s records available, many styles of music have been neglected. That gap is the reason this series was begun.
Did You See the Wind Today?
Many of these songs will be remembered from the ABC's famous Kindergarten of the Air radio programme. The 25 songs follow a child's day from dawn through to bed-time.
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.
Move to Mozart: Music for Movement – Resting and Running
Instrumental music for resting and running, made for kindergarten and home. Children always move to music, and rhythmic movement underpins much early learning. John Seal leads a colourful percussion palette, with flute, guitar and acoustic bass.
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, presents a varied selection of twenty-eight Christmas carols. Familiar favourites sit beside Bach and Pachelbel organ pieces and twentieth-century settings.
Australia's Billy Williams
Recorded between 1907 and 1914, these 23 songs offer a fascinating historical overview of one of Australia's first pop recording stars and music-hall favourites.
Fly: An Australian Opera
Barry Conyngham’s opera Fly, to a libretto by Murray Copland, dramatises the life of inventor and explorer Lawrence Hargrave. The Victoria State Opera premiere recording is conducted by John Hopkins.
Stargazer
Ros Bandt explores the resonance of a large hollow concrete cylinder five storeys underground in the Collins Place car park, Melbourne. Stargazer gathers improvisations and compositions for recorders, psaltery, bells, cymbals, kalimba, PVC pipe and music boxes, shaped by that vibrating space.
The Spirit of the Lord
The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, directed from the organ by June Nixon, presents sacred choral works by Edward Elgar and Edward Bairstow.
Rush, The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox and Other Goodies
An enjoyable collection built around two of George Dreyfus’s best-known scores, the charting TV theme Rush and the suite from the ABC children’s series The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox.
Contemporary Australian Piano
A valuable collection of Australian piano works by some of the country’s most respected and inventive composers, performed by pianist-composer Larry Sitsky.
When David heard that Absalom was slain
The Choir of Ormond College specialised in liturgical music of the 16th and 20th centuries. This recording also includes psalm settings, among them Allegri’s Miserere, a setting of the penitential Psalm 51 once reserved for the Sistine Chapel in Holy Week.
Le Rossignol
Margaret Lynch, soprano, and Peter Lynch, guitar, present works from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The recital was recorded in the natural acoustic of the Great Hall at Montsalvat in Eltham, Victoria.
Elgar Organ Sonatas
Recorded in 1984 for the fiftieth anniversary of Edward Elgar's death, this album presents both of his organ sonatas. June Nixon, long-time organist of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, plays the cathedral's Lewis organ with mastery and clear affection for the music.
Journeys
Peter Clinch leads Australian chamber works with the Peter Clinch Saxophone Quartet, the Petra String Quartet and pianist Nehama Patkin, in music by Eric Gross, William Lovelock and Barry Conyngham.
L'Infidèle
William Bower plays solo lute works by Lauffensteiner, Weiss, Mésangeau and Gallot, much of it first heard on disc when this programme was recorded in 1977.
Tone-stuffs
The Melbourne Brass Ensemble presents a varied brass-quintet programme of Australian works alongside Renaissance and Baroque arrangements. The playing is dynamic and accurate, with a full sound and a true-to-life concert-hall acoustic.
The Choir of Ormond College Melbourne
Directed by Douglas Lawrence, who led chapel music at Ormond College, Melbourne, for more than twenty years, this recording presents the college choir in English church music of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.
O Come All Ye Faithful
A Melbourne choir under Faye Dumont, whose Christmas programme shows variety and finesse as part of its charter.
Daniel Blumenthal plays Mozart
The University of Adelaide Chamber Orchestra with soloists Daniel Blumenthal (piano) and Jiří Tancibudek (oboe). Tancibudek conducts all three works on the programme.
A Beethoven Recital
Recorded in 1976, Ronald Farren-Price’s Beethoven recital mixes rarely heard piano pieces with works long loved by students, from the Ten Variations on Salieri’s La stessa, la stessissima to Für Elise.
A Recital of organ music from St. Paul's Cathedral Melbourne
The works on this recording span some eighty years of organ writing. Three come from the latter half of the nineteenth century; the remaining three were written in the first half of the twentieth.
Glass & Clay
Ros Bandt, the internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and sound sculptor, shapes subtle, shimmering sonorities from glass and clay. The programme includes Soft and Fragile, first issued on LP in 1983.
Monodies
Music from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Spain and southern France. The programme centres on Martin Codax’s sea-haunted Cantigas de amigo, with songs by the troubadour Marcabru and anonymous fourteenth-century istanpittas.
Jinker Ride
A recital collection celebrating the modern pianoforte, drawing on its full range of colour and touch across repertoire from Scarlatti and Clementi to Liszt, with special place given to Australian works by Dorian Le Gallienne and Raymond Hanson.
Rhapsodie
Australian saxophonist Peter Clinch presents a recital of fine classical chamber music. Often linked with jazz, the saxophone is heard here in a classical programme that ranges from the Italian Baroque to the early twentieth century.
The World is a Beautiful Place
The Australian Rosny Children’s Choir presents A Dozen of Dennis, Peter Davies’s settings of twelve poems from C. J. Dennis’s A Book for Kids, with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Ding Dong Merrily on High
A baker's dozen of well-loved traditional Christmas carols featuring children's and men's voices. Recorded in the magnificent acoustics of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
Petra String Quartet plays Conyngham and Tibbits
Barry Conyngham's String Quartet No. 1 and George Tibbits' Second String Quartet, two Albert H. Maggs Award commissions, performed by the Petra String Quartet.
A Baroque Collection
Douglas Lawrence plays Baroque organ masterworks on Jürgen Ahrend’s acclaimed instrument in Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall, a programme spanning Zipoli to Buxtehude.
Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers
Environmental composer Ros Bandt’s first vinyl LP is now available on CD. She works with the sonorities of man-made chambers — a water tank and a wheat silo — where bamboo flute, recorders, lute and voice reverberate. It may sound electronic, but is entirely natural.
Love Lyrics and Romances of Renaissance Spain
This is the first recording by the early music group La Romanesca, devoted to Spanish villancicos and romances of the Renaissance.
Sing Out With Joy
Cantus Choro, directed by Peter Chapman, sings seventeen favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book. Norman Kaye’s imaginative organ accompaniments give the well-known settings fresh dramatic shape and room for the choir to breathe.
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ
Historic recordings from the 1979 inaugural recital series that launched the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ, Ronald Sharp’s vast mechanical-action instrument.
Great Bass Ballads
Baritone Alan Light brings operatic presence to fourteen popular bass ballads, from drinking songs and sea shanties to Australian bush songs, in orchestral and choral arrangements by Eric Gross.
Victorian Time Machine
The Victorian Time Machine, directed by Richard David Hames, grew out of the Victorian College of the Arts as an instrumental and vocal ensemble for new music. This 1979 programme pairs Guillaume Dufay with works by Hames, Barry Conyngham and James Fulkerson.
Full Spectrum
An early Move survey of Australian computer and digital music from the 1970s, opening with Barry Conyngham's realisation of Percy Grainger's Free Music 1 and 2, and continuing with works by Tristram Cary, Warren Burt and Darius Clynes.
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.
15 Favourite Christmas Carols
Christmas carols without choir or singers, heard in the acoustics of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. Cathedral organ, brass ensemble and tubular bells carry fifteen familiar carols in special arrangements by Christopher Willcock.
Psalms for Feasts and Seasons
Christopher Willcock’s twenty-two responsorial psalm settings cover the feasts and seasons of the church year, written for cantor, congregation and modest choral forces with organ, flute and guitar.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (piano four hands)
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was first composed in 1913 for piano four hands, eight years before the orchestral score was published. Ronald Farren-Price and Rosslyn Farren-Price give an intense, highly rhythmic performance of the Rite, set against Ravel's melodic Mother Goose Suite, also originally written for piano four hands.
Pachelbel, His Canon and Much More
Douglas Lawrence plays the Ronald Sharp organ in the Ormond College Chapel, Melbourne, in favourite Baroque organ works by Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Scheidt, Camidge and Greene.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A favourite since its 1968 school premiere, this Canadian recording of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s biblical musical features the dramatic vocals of soloist Rob Gillespie.
Gabriel's Mother's Highway
Franciscus Henri presents songs by Sydney Carter, Elton John and Arlo Guthrie alongside three of his own. Produced by Brian Cadd, the album settles into a gentle folk-rock style with clear acoustic colour.
The Present Tense: Songs of Sydney Carter
The songs of Sydney Carter are an enigma. Folk, religious, satire and protest never quite fit. They have depth and integrity, and they press us to face and question our innermost thoughts and conflicts.
Seven Whole Days: Music for the Contemporary Church
Seven Whole Days is Jim Minchin’s second Move album of contemporary church song, recorded across Melbourne and Singapore in 1969 with singers and instrumentalists from both places.
Words, Love, Music: Sydney Carter
Songs and poems by Sydney Carter from the 1950s to the 1970s, spanning social protest, faith and everyday life, performed by Carter and guest singers including Sheila Hancock, Franciscus Henri and Nadia Cattouse.
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.
Exquisite Harmonies
Exquisite Harmonies features works for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and several harpsichord solos, largely from the French Baroque. The exceptions are Telemann, Abel and Australian composer Troy Russell. A nice treat is an improvised harpsichord fantasia in the style of Telemann.
My Heart
Naarm/Melbourne pianist Danaë Killian presents an expressionist programme of solo piano, spoken word and tarot, centred on her own My Prussian Blue Heart and works by mostly Australian composers.
Shifting Landscapes
Shifting Landscapes is Australian flautist Kathryn Moorhead’s survey of the flute’s contemporary sound world, gathering works that push the instrument past its familiar range through extended technique, colour, and texture.
Homegrown
Themes of nature, motherhood, and a profound spiritual connection to place pervade Homegrown — art song by Australian women composers, performed by soprano Rebecca Cassidy and pianist Alex Raineri.
A Thousand Beautiful and Graceful Inventions
Subtitled ‘The glorious age of medieval and renaissance canons’, this programme of late Middle Ages and Early Modern choral music is sung by the University of Queensland Chamber Singers under Graeme Morton. The illustrated booklet has programme notes by Denis Collins and Jason Stoessel, with complete texts.
Gold
The Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, performs works by eight Australian composers. From Gordon Kerry’s Shakespeare setting to Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics, the programme turns individual voices into pure gold.
Keys to Heaven
The Australian Chamber Choir opens with the first recording of Agata della Pietà’s cantata Ecce nunc, written in eighteenth-century Venice by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà and reconstructed by Elizabeth Anderson. Sacred works by Palestrina and Allegri complete the programme.
Sun Fun and other Disappointments: The music of Michael Easton
This compilation gathers British–Australian composer Michael Easton’s output from 1981 to 1993: solo and duo piano, a flute sonata, a piccolo concerto, song cycles, and four songs from his one-woman show Dorothy Parker Says.
By the Winding River: songs from old Chinese Poems by Lachlan Brown
In the tradition of Gustav Mahler’s The Song of the Earth, Lachlan Brown shapes ancient Chinese poems into a modern song cycle of wonder, nature, friendship and longing.
Tango Fantasy
An alluring Latin American odyssey: Ken Herrera’s solo piano programme of original tangos, a Baroque-tinged suite and a sultry nocturne that lean into waltz, milonga, bossa nova and blues.
Sidekick
Sidekick is the debut CD from guitar duo Ziggy and Miles. It pairs new works written for the brothers with their own arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de Lune and repertoire from Spain, Latin America and Australia that has shaped their musical identity.
Night Thoughts
During the long still nights of Melbourne’s Covid lockdowns, pianist Len Vorster listened widely and thought hard about what he heard. Those evening ruminations became this programme of fifteen nocturnes and night pieces, from Schumann’s circle to Copland.
Contra
Contra Guitar Duo’s debut recording presents the lyricism, complex rubato and colour the pair most enjoy in two-guitar playing, across a short programme of romantic and contemporary works.
Together Apart
Together Apart gathers original chamber works by Sydney composer and UTS lecturer Brent Keogh. Written in the Covid-19 lockdown, the music holds the strain of that period alongside a clear hope of renewal.
Latin American Piano Music
Alejandro Téllez performs both well-known and overlooked Latin American piano music from Mexican and Cuban composers.
Threading the Light
Threading the Light was composed between 2008 and 2012 as the cornerstone of a PhD in composition. Spurred by its 2022 world premiere by The Cooperative after a decade’s wait, Felicity Wilcox presents this personal, ethereal and strongly symbolic work.
In Flight
Classical guitarist Harold Gretton offers a varied programme spanning some three centuries of solo guitar music, from Sylvius Leopold Weiß in the eighteenth century to his own Australian bird-inspired pieces of the twenty-first.
Acacia Quartet: Mozart Dvorak Chance
Three four-movement string quartets — Mozart’s D minor K. 421, Alice Chance’s Sundried, and Dvořák’s American — played with the clarity and ensemble blend Acacia Quartet is known for.
Bass Instincts
The bass recorder has grown from consort roots into a virtuosic solo voice: deep, earthy, mellow and haunting. Alicia Crossley, one of Australia’s leading recorder players, presents a programme of new Australian works written for the instrument.
The Latin Muse
Pianist Nancy Tsou brings fire and tenderness to Spanish and Latin American works by Piazzolla, Granados, de Falla, Albéniz and Ginastera. Chosen for intensity of feeling, the programme is played with deep sympathy for the Latin idiom.
Two
Two brings together Marais Project founding members Jennifer Eriksson, viola da gamba, and Tommie Andersson, gallichon, theorbo and baroque guitar. Each plays alternate brackets of solos before they join in a splendid suite by Marin Marais.
Liquid Crystal
Clarinetist Luke Carbon and pianist Alex Raineri offer a varied duo programme spanning Brahms, Berg, Beach, Bernstein and Elliott Gyger, framed as a personal mixtape of cherished clarinet and piano works.
Duos
An extraordinary acoustic frames extraordinary music: Ruth Wilkinson (recorders and bass viola da gamba) and Cynthia O’Brien (baroque violin), the duo known as Capella Corelli, in late Baroque two-part repertoire.
Moonlight Reflections
A recital album full to the brim with exquisite art song, this recording gathers hidden treasures and classic favourites performed by Opera Australia star Stacey Alleaume.
Over Under
Over Under is the debut album of cellist Luke Severn and pianist–composer Evan Fein as a duo, the fruit of five years of shared touring, writing and close artistic exchange.
Shades of Ivory
Shades of Ivory is unlike most piano albums. Bill Canty, a highly accomplished Australian musician equally at home in orchestras and rock bands, builds a suite from digital pianos alone, reshaping familiar keyboard sound into something spacious, atmospheric and often unrecognisable.
Siegfried's Story
"Brassy revamp for Wagner" (The Age, 29 April 2020). Mark Papworth’s arrangement of highlights from Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung for horn, tuba and piano traces the cycle as chamber drama.
Winter Journey
For this recording of Schubert’s Winterreise, Op. 89 (D. 911), pianist Brian Chapman prepared a new English translation and, with baritone Nathan Lay, recorded the full cycle in English and German across two CDs, presented with a lavish 56-page book of 24 paintings by Lucy Chapman.
Snow in Summer
In 18th-century Scotland, folk songs sat beside Corelli and Vivaldi without hierarchy. Across thirteen tracks, Snow in Summer pairs period sonatas with folk arrangements: sparse strings, plucked notes like stars, and a voice high above.
Chromatic Flight
Music for flute and piano by Graham Jesse, played by Virginia Taylor and Simon Tedeschi. Melodic contemporary pieces sit beside Latin and jazz suites, bridging classical technique and jazz inflection.
The Dew Gatherers
Playing its own arrangements and realisations of the songs and arias of Johann Philipp Krieger, the Cole, Heymink and Brewer trio (voice, harpsichord and bassoon) has created a ground-breaking recording. Krieger (1649–1725) is one of the important forerunners of Bach and Handel.
Spinning Forth
The title points to music still to come. The programme gathers French baroque viola da gamba repertoire with Swedish roots and newly commissioned Australian works, spinning forth in fresh directions.
Amy Castles: Court Singer
Amy Castles, the Australian dramatic soprano once hailed as the “Australian nightingale”, left landmark gramophone sides from London and Australian sessions in the early twentieth century. This disc gathers eighteen restored arias, salon songs and ballads.
Luminescence
Light is integral to colour, and musical integrity is often described in terms of its colour or luminescence. Celebrating Canticum’s 21st birthday, the programme seeks composers whose music shows a particular sensitivity to the choral instrument and to beautiful text.
Ringing the Strings
Melbourne’s Concordia Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra present a programme of original works and arrangements for plucked strings, including music by Sculthorpe and Fauré alongside pieces by the ensemble’s own Michelle Nelson.
…for Sonja
Dedicated to Tony Gould’s dear friend Sonja Krawatt, this album gathers traditional Jewish melodies of lasting emotional warmth. Cello and clarinet join Gould’s piano on several tracks, framing two original pieces written for her.
Barefoot in the Sky
Barefoot in the Sky fuses ancient and contemporary practice: rhythmic and melodic, organic and electronic, choral and tribal. It moves through enough moods for several albums, in a vein the artists call ambient space-world jazz.
Lotus Dreams
Soprano Shu-Cheen Yu and pianist Katherine Day present eighteen favourite songs and ballads, from Brahms and Schubert to Chinese and Irish folk airs, a personal path through Lieder and art song.
Dream Song
A charming collection of well-known songs, sure to delight. Immortal sacred favourites sit beside theatre and film themes, from Franck’s Panis Angelicus and Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu to Blake, Rodgers and Bart.
Birds Bees and Butterflies
Songs of love and springtime sung by Pamela Wainwright and accompanied by Andrew Frampton.
Automne: Changing Colours of Harp Music
From classical to folk, from sweeping glissandi to the strikingly contemporary, the range and diversity of the harp always entrances and amazes.
The Shepherd and the Mermaid
The winning combination of voice, clarinet and piano delighted intimate gatherings and inspired many lovely works. Australian soprano Elena Xanthoudakis is joined by clarinettist Jason Xanthoudakis and pianist Clemens Leske as TrioKROMA.
I Heard You Singing: Songs My Father Taught Me
Baritone Jonathan Morton's first solo album is a personal programme of English art song, drawn from cycles and favourites his father once sang around the family piano.
John Tallis 1911–1996: A Composer of His Time
John Tallis was born in Australia at the end of the golden era before the world was ripped apart by the horrors of the First World War; his music reflects the optimism of the much vaunted, if unfulfilled, Second Elizabethan Age.
Silver: Celebrating 25 Years
Pot-Pourri marks twenty-five years with Silver, a seventh album that mixes contemporary classics, Broadway, and opera into one sparkling programme.
Character Interludes
Virginia Taylor and Timothy Kain present a Southern Hemisphere program for flute and guitar, pairing Argentine and Bolivian guitarist-composers with Australian works by Phillip Houghton and Elena Kats-Chernin.
Anthony Halliday plays Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Duruflé, Bach
Few Australian musicians match Anthony Halliday’s versatile splendour. This latest of his all-too-few organ CDs emphasises his gifts in transcribing orchestral works, recorded on the organ of St Francis’ Church, Melbourne.
Miscellany for Flute and Harp
Throughout history composers have been drawn to the flute and harp pairing, from the shepherd’s pan-pipes and Orphean lyre of ancient Arcadia to the French court of Marie-Antoinette and Mozart’s duo concerto for the two instruments.
Music for Strings
String orchestra music from Wolf-Ferrari and Grieg to Britten, Grainger and living Australian voices. Gerald Gentry leads the Southern Cross Philharmonia, with Amir Farid at the piano in Grainger’s clog-dance romp.
A tissue of quotations
A Tissue of Quotations (2009) celebrates the classical piano repertoire. Each of its eight parts was conceived as a clear, distilled expression of a particular composer’s emotional soundprint.
The Flowers
All works on this recording are Australian compositions exploring the aesthetics of contemporary art music. The disc offers a fresh perspective on Australian music-making through starkly varied new pieces.
Lobe den Herren
Anthony Halliday gives a varied organ recital on the historic instrument at Melbourne's Trinity Lutheran Church. The programme runs from grand Bach works through Mozart and a Bach–Vivaldi concerto to his own transcription of the finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Love Reconciled
A landmark in Australian early-music performance, The Marais Project’s Love Reconciled is a recording to return to often and savour deeply.
Burns and Beyond
This recording, Burns and Beyond, gathers art songs for voice and modern piano drawn from Robert Burns, and includes Percy Grainger’s Three Scotch Folksongs, built on ancient Scottish tunes.
The Magic of Operetta
Soprano Louise Page and pianist Phillipa Candy have long delighted Australian audiences with a partnership of varied and entertaining programmes for Musica Viva, the ABC and many other organisations.
Just A Dreamer
Linda Cable’s 1997 Move EP gathers five original songs in a jazz-vocal vein, led by the title track.
Original Transcriptions for Piano
Piano transcriptions of rare originality and virtuosity. Australian pianist-composer Cameron Roberts turns orchestral showpieces and intimate songs into a solo-piano tour de force.
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.
Cool Black: Chamber Works by Rosalind Page
Inspired by Apollinaire, Lorca and Harðarson, Cool Black gathers three contrasting chamber song cycles by Rosalind Page, performed by the Australian vocal ensemble Halcyon.
The Rose and the Willow
Saxophone and piano rebuild Piazzolla, Ginastera and Guastavino from bare elements, treating improvisation as equal partner so both instruments share the musical weight.
Sketches of a Better Time
Extraordinarily popular with children, not least as a soundtrack for rollerblading and skateboarding, these light musical classics are performed live by former circus musician and well-known Sydney organist Peter Carroll-Held.
Magic Sounds
Magic Sounds moves through meditation, ambient, chill-out, fine world, soundtrack, spiritual (non-religious) and contemporary choral territory, built from authentic human voices rather than synthesizers.
Looking to the Light: Songs of Christmas
Looking to the Light is an easy-listening Christmas collection of favourites such as O Holy Night, The Little Drummer Boy, Ave Maria and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, with Australian carols, lesser-known songs and children's numbers including All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth and I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.
Matthew Kam introduces the new Schimmel K 230
A wide-ranging solo programme opens with Brahms’s demanding Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel. Matthew Kam and the Schimmel K 230 meet its musical and technical challenges with striking tonal beauty and colour.
Sit Down Beside Me
In its inimitable style, Pastance again brings together music from the folk traditions and the early music world.
Live for Life
An extremely popular pairing of clarinettist Nicole Canham and accordionist Anton Wurzer, bringing French musette, tango and salon repertoire to the Move catalogue.
Organ of the Antipodes
Organists Rhys Boak and Ryoko Mori mark the centenary of a landmark Australian instrument: the 1906 George Fincham & Son organ at Malvern Presbyterian Church.
Unity
A wide-ranging blend of traditional, contemporary and original Scottish music — from haunting Gaelic airs and foot-stomping dance sets to chamber textures and evocative new works.
Flight
Concordia Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble gathers its more virtuosic, lively and passionate repertoire under the idea of flight. Flight of the Bumble Bee and Le Streghe (The Witches) lead the way; the remaining works answer with energy and vitality that suggest flights of fancy.
Guitar Concerto
This recording looks toward a twenty-first-century classical aesthetic, deliberately crossing the line between concert music and popular song so that new work can again speak plainly to listeners and performers.
Mandolino Italiano
Italian repertoire for mandolin orchestra, from Bitelli and Bellini fantasies to Verdi’s La Traviata, period arias, Toselli’s Serenade, and popular songs.
Six Organ Concertos - G. F. Handel
These ever-popular concertos by Handel appear here in the composer's own arrangements for organ alone, played on the historic 1888 George Fincham organ in Richmond Uniting Church.
A Year in Paris
Clarinet and piano music by Poulenc, Carmichael, Benjamin, Cahuzac, Debussy, Stanhope, Brumby and Françaix. Nicole Canham spent a year in Paris studying at the Versailles Conservatoire.
Breathe
Melbourne duo Nougat – guitarist and composer Tania Ravbar Costantino with mandolinist Ruth Roshan – place Breathe on the cusp of world and classical music.
Josquin to Martin
A miscellany spanning High and Late Renaissance motets and nineteenth- and twentieth-century sacred works, drawn from Ensemble Gombert’s first European tour in 2004. The programme was chosen to complement Hommage à Gombert, then in production, with Gombert, Lassus and Monteverdi.
re-sound
re-sound's first, self-titled album gathers chamber works by John Cage and five Australian composers – Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Ken Murray, Thomas Reiner and Harvey Sollberger – in a programme of late twentieth-century sound.
A Valley Fair
Pastance's then most recent offering is a delightful collection of traditional, original and early music for Celtic harp, recorders and voices.
Bach Sacred Songs and Chorus
Melbourne choir Aspiration in Harmony, with soprano Bente Lancaster and director Andrew Blackburn, presents sacred songs and chorales from the Anna Magdalena Notebook and Schemelli’s hymn book.
Forgotten Dreams
In 1999 Concordia director Basil Hawkins first heard Hadjidakis’s The Waltz of Forgotten Dreams. Struck by its atmospheric, evocative character, he shaped a programme of kindred nostalgia, including Eileen Pakenham’s Reverie and Fred Witt’s Memories of Bendigo.
Love Rhapsody
Emma Sidney’s debut jazz album Love Rhapsody traces love in every mood, from triumph to loss. Standards sit beside three of her own songs, sung with swing, Latin colour and intimate ballad feeling.
The Concert Band Music of George Dreyfus
Conducted by the composer, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, performs George Dreyfus’ complete music for wind orchestra.
Millennium Magic
Live from the Melbourne Concert Hall on St David's Day 2000, the Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir's first solo concert of the new millennium, with Linda O'Brien, Rhys Boak, Delyth Stafford and Lynlee Williams.
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.
titlewave
On their first Move disc, titlewave, Loco Tempo – vocalist Colleen Hunt and pianist/arranger Rick Freeman – are joined by a first-rate jazz combo, including guitarist Mark Viggiani and trombonist Jordan Murray, in standards chosen for their timeless quality.
The Litanies of St. Francis Xavier
A generous 2-CD set of Jan Dismas Zelenka’s liturgical music from the Schola Cantorum of Melbourne: the Litaniae Xaverianae, five Vespers psalms, the Magnificat in D and the Alma Redemptoris Mater.
Last Christmas
Live from the Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir’s 10th Anniversary Christmas Charity Concert in 1999, this recording supports Mid-Eastern Palliative Care with Welsh favourites, carols and seasonal song.
One Two One
Yoram Levy (trumpet) and Christopher Wrench (organ) explore the contrasting textures and styles of twentieth-century works by Genzmer, Tomasi, Persichetti, Duruflé and Hakim.
Repose
Beautiful lullabies and cradle songs by Australian composers from 1890–1999. Soprano Linda Thompson and pianist Deviani Segal present world premiere recordings drawn from a century of Australian cradle song.
Moscow State RTV Symphony Orchestra
Live from Moscow Radio Hall in December 1998, André de Quadros leads the Moscow State RTV Symphony Orchestra with pianist Yuri Rozum in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Joy
Joy names the intent behind much of this music: carols of piety, the longing of Landini and Machaut, and Hildegard von Bingen’s soaring beauty. The collection shows how song shaped everyday life in the Middle Ages.
Eclectic Collection
The mandolin orchestra is remarkably versatile. This recording sets out to show that range and the ensemble’s distinctive colour across a programme that moves freely between styles and cultures.
World Music
The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra presents music from around the world: Latin American dances, Klezmer, Slavic folk and blues, in contemporary works that still draw on traditional song and dance.
New Monash Orchestra
Conducted by André de Quadros, the New Monash Orchestra offers a live programme of Shostakovich, Mahler and Beethoven, captured at the Robert Blackwood Hall.
Maid in Sweden
Swedish-Australian soprano Monique Brynnel brings cabaret intimacy to a programme of musical theatre, jazz standards, Swedish art song and operetta, spanning Arlen, Gershwin, Stenhammar, Lehár and Strauss.
Senzenina
The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir and friends offer an eclectic programme of favourites, African songs and chants, with guest soloists drawn from past ‘Singers of the Year’.
…a little z.o.o.
Peter Constant and Marion Schaap as the Z.O.O. Duo follow their acclaimed A Sympathetic Resonance and Light on the Edge with a short, polished programme of classical guitar duos drawn from familiar concert repertoire.
World Rhythm Band
An unexpected cross-fertilisation: contemporary jazz melody and harmony joined with rhythmic traditions of the Third World, especially West Africa, in a distinctive ensemble sound.
Great Southern Lands
The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir marks a South African concert tour with Welsh hymnody, folk song, spirituals and a Zulu–Xhosa chant under conductor Phillip Smith.
Something Familiar! Something Peculiar!
Pot-Pourri’s second Move album ranges freely across Broadway, opera, musical theatre and popular song, pairing cherished favourites with sharper comic turns in chamber-scale arrangements.
Falling Through Time
All the colour and mystique of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance come alive in a presentation rich in music and drama, spanning troubadour song, Machaut, courtly dance and English lute song.
Heritage
The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir celebrate Victoria’s architectural heritage in song, recorded in the unaltered acoustics of National Trust colonial buildings.
Binneas Quartet
Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76 No. 1, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6 and arrangements from Dvořák’s Cypresses form a warm, assured programme from Melbourne’s Binneas Quartet.
Homage to Brahms
A handsome recital paying homage to Brahms, with two-piano variations, late Intermezzi, the G major Violin Sonata, and the complete Liebeslieder Walzer.
Cornet Caprice
Tom Paulin and pianist Len Vorster explore the cornet’s brilliance in a recital of virtuoso showpieces and contemporary writing by Bozza, Arban, McCabe, Dreyfus and others.
Rhythm of Life
A delicious blend of highlights from Broadway shows, popular music theatre, traditional songs and operatic hits, sung with style by Melbourne vocal ensemble Pot-Pourri.
The Welsh in Australia, Vol. 2
Volume two gathers hymns and traditional Welsh songs in commemoration and celebration of St David, uniting two Victorian male voice choirs in concert and community hymn singing.
Carols Psalms and Anthems
Under the direction of Professor Emeritus Peter Godfrey, CBE, the Trinity College Chapel Choir offers a striking programme of rarely heard carols, psalms and anthems spanning several centuries of sacred choral writing.
The Welsh in Australia, Vol. 1
The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir and Victorian Welsh Singers join forces under Alwyn Humphreys for a St David’s Day celebration of Welsh hymns and traditional songs.
Christmas Joy and a Ceremony of Carols
The Melbourne Academy Boys Choir, directed by Andrew Blackburn, offers a Christmas programme of familiar carols and distinctive concert works by Kodály, Grüber, Britten and others.
Hamilton
The Team of Pianists present a programme of excellent piano works for solo, duo and two pianos, spanning popular classics and Australian repertoire.
Merrily at Christmas
Sixty-three festive Christmas songs and rhymes, old and new, for children. Voices and instruments share simple arrangements prepared for the Australian Breastfeeding Association.
Merrily Merrily
Eighty-five songs and rhymes for young children, drawn from the Australian Breastfeeding Association book Merrily Merrily. Voices, instruments and sound effects give a bright, singable accompaniment across a lively 54 minutes.
A Sense of Wonder
After several years of musical involvement in television, radio and film, Alwyn and Laurie Lewis decided to change direction and concentrate on songwriting. Here is the result: eleven new songs.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 4
Derek Jones’s fourth Flute Perspectives volume gathers contemporary Australian flute music with Jerry Wong and Joshua Hyde. Sonatas, solos and electronics chart lyric landscape, multiphonic colour and modernist drive.
Shichiseki
Collaborations with violinist Miwako Abe and cellist Alister Barker sit beside solos written for Michael Kieran Harvey by Gabriella Vici and Andrián Pertout, spanning Japanese, Latin American and South Indian influences.
Through Tropical Stars
David Joseph’s Through Tropical Stars gathers five chamber works inspired by the natural world. From the garden-like imagery of Concertino to the quiet melancholy of The Afternoon, the music brings nature’s textures, patterns and sounds into focus.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 3
The third release in Derek Jones’s series, Flute Perspectives 3 continues to convey the synergy of Australia’s varied classical flute repertoire, with newly commissioned works, some recorded here for the first time.
Schumann Cello
Cellist Zoe Knighton and pianist Amir Farid continue their partnership in a programme of short works by Clara and Robert Schumann, pairing song transcriptions with chamber pieces for cello and piano.
Rhythms of Change
In 2020 Claire Edwardes, often called the wonder woman of percussion, launched Rhythms of Change, a commissioning project for solo percussion that confronts the under-representation of women in classical programming and builds a lasting new repertoire.
Scarlatti's Steinways at Melbourne
The remarkable output of 555 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) remains one of the most original contributions in Western art music. Pianist Ian Holtham selects 23 sonatas, sequenced into four Baroque tonal groupings and recorded on the Conservatorium’s four Steinway Model Ds.
Brahms Cello
Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid present their seventh cello–piano collaboration, turning to Johannes Brahms. The programme pairs his two cello sonatas with three songs in which the cello takes the vocal line wordlessly.
Jazz Music Series (set)
The five volumes of John Sangster's Jazz Music Series are available individually or together as a set at a reduced price.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 5: Ripper
The fifth and final volume in John Sangster’s jazz series of suites, written for a lively little orchestra that gathers some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians around his vibraphone writing.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 4: Take That
Volume four of John Sangster’s Jazz Music Series finds his “lively little orchestra” of leading Australian jazz players in a ten-movement suite of wit, swing and colour.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 3: Steady Lads
Third in John Sangster’s series of suites for a lively little orchestra of some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians: ten pieces of small big-band writing with Sangster on vibraphone.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 2: Requiem (for a loved one)
Volume 2 of five suites by John Sangster, played by his fine small orchestra of leading Australian jazz musicians. A 1980 requiem for Janice Patricia Byrnes, nicknamed Bo Diddley.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 1: Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Doo-wup
As John Sangster put it, "Here is the first in a series of Suites written for this lively little orchestra, a gathering that includes some of Australia's finest jazz musicians."
Peaceful
John Sangster's Peaceful gathers nine quiet jazz pieces for tenor saxophone, flutes, acoustic guitar, electric piano, vibraphone, marimba and percussion. The mood is contemplative, with room for gentle improvisation.
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Prepare to be swept away by the soulful and powerful performance of Johannes Brahms' Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5, as played by the incomparable Ronald Farren-Price. Farren-Price's mastery of the piano is evident in his interpretation of this masterpiece, showcasing the intricacies of Brahms' composition.
Franz Schubert: Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959
Australian pianist Ronald Farren-Price brings intimacy and power to Schubert’s late Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959, balancing virtuosity with a deep feeling for the work’s melodic beauty and shifting moods.
Christmas Bells
More carillon music from Canberra’s National Carillon: Joan Chia plays Christmas carols and Australian seasonal pieces in a short festive programme.
The Pleyel Harpsichord
Roger Heagney plays one of the last harpsichords made by the French Pleyel piano company (1963). Founded in 1807, Pleyel built pianos until 2014. The Concert Grand Harpsichord offers a distinctive sound and seven-pedal colour.
Masters of Baroque
Trio Polyphonica was active between 1980 and 1990, with a repertoire spanning more than three centuries. This programme presents Baroque chamber works by Frescobaldi, Hellendaal, Couperin, Leclair, Rameau and Corelli.
The Art of Melody
Jazz legends Tony Gould (piano) and Graeme Lyall (saxophone) offer superb readings of well-known standards, joined by Ben Robertson on double bass and Joe Batrouney on drums.
Bach Cello
Debate still rages over the origins and purpose of Bach’s cello suites. Were they written for court cellists Christian Ferdinand Abel and Christian Bernhard Linke, for the unusual violoncello da spalla, or as progressive exercises for Bach himself?
Dances and Delights
Premiere recordings of Australian and American works for modern flute ensemble fill this album with spirit and serenity, from waltzes and two-steps to cherished song arrangements.
Pieces after Childhood
The remarkable compositions of Geoffrey Tozer were almost entirely unknown and unpublished at the time of his death in 2009. This premiere recording features nine works for piano composed during the years 1972–1988, performed by Lachlan Redd.
Portrait of Bob Brown
Produced in support of the Bob Brown Foundation, this disc presents three new Australian chamber works from 2016: two by Michael Kieran Harvey and one by violinist and violist Emily Sheppard.
Bach's Tonal Soundscape
Ian Holtham’s distinctive approach to Bach’s monumental Well-Tempered Clavier lets listeners hear the preludes and fugues organised by key, rather than the traditional and more artificial order by book.
Tony Gould on the Art of Creative Music
This is a tribute to revered Australian pianist, praised educator and musical thinker Dr Tony Gould, Australia’s first professor of jazz. It comprises an audio CD and bonus one-hour video DVD documentary.
McGann LIVE 81 / 83
Live recordings of Australian alto saxophonist Bernie McGann from two celebrated concerts: three originals with Chuck Yates in Sydney in 1981, and standards with the Ted Vining Trio in Melbourne in 1983.
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).
Atmospheros
The Christopher Young Quartet presents ten new pieces by Young and the group, spanning atmosphere, hard bop and free collective improvisation.
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.
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.
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features compositions for two bass flutes and cello. As the Earth’s continents drift across the ocean floor, new music makes its own slow migration around the globe, across time and space into various lands and cultures.
Satellite Mapping
Amir Farid performs Stuart Greenbaum’s complete solo piano works composed between 1989 and 2014, a two-disc survey of more than two hours of music.
Our Favourite Things
The Ted Vining Trio’s first studio album since bassist Barry Buckley’s death in 2006. With Gareth Hill now on bass, Bob Sedergreen and Ted recorded standards and originals after their August 2015 south-east Australian tour.
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.
JS Bach Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
Considering the fame of Bach’s solo violin partitas and cello suites, it is remarkable that his sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard still sit in the shadows for many listeners. That some of their material appears elsewhere in his output hardly explains the neglect.
For Ever
The idea for this recording came about after the Alan Lee Quartet reunion concert on the closing night of the 2014 Stonnington Festival in Melbourne, which saw the vibraphonist in collaboration with old friends Ted Vining, Tony Gould and Derek Capewell.
2 Pinots 2 Pales and 2 Hours – TNT
Two pinots, two pales and two hours later, with little discussion and no rehearsal, five spontaneous improvisations and three standards were captured with the ease that only comes when three dedicated jazz musicians meet solely to make music.
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.
Geoffrey Tozer in Concert: Hobart 1991
Live solo piano recital by Geoffrey Tozer, recorded at the University Centre, Hobart, on 18 May 1991. Bach’s Italian Concerto and Schumann’s Carnaval open a programme that also takes in Medtner, Liszt, Beethoven and Elgar.
Geoffrey Tozer in Concert: Canberra 1987
This live recording of pianist Geoffrey Tozer was made in June 1987, during a series of four recitals marking his twenty-fifth anniversary as a performer.
Music for Trumpet and the King of Instruments
In the world of classical music, one of the most special and enduring combinations of instruments is that of the trumpet and the pipe organ. Dating back over a millennium, the pairing has produced a tradition of heroic and majestic music-making.
Peter Sculthorpe
A retrospective compilation of favourite chamber works by the late Peter Sculthorpe, drawn from Move’s own catalogue. Torres Strait song, Kakadu landscapes and intimate string writing are heard in performances by leading Australian musicians.
Pieces from Childhood
Geoffrey Tozer’s Pieces from Childhood offer a brief window onto a young genius finding his way in classical music. The emotions he shapes – sometimes tumultuous, sometimes meditative – are the embodiment of a growing artist.
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.
Haydn Opus 20
As first prize winners of the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Tinalley String Quartet was awarded the opportunity to make this CD at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The Broken Shore
This CD won Best Soundtrack Album at the APRA/AMCOS Screen Music Awards on 12 November 2014. It is Cezary Skubiszewski’s original score for the film The Broken Shore.
Unfold
The Kreutzer Quartet, long regarded as one of Europe’s most dynamic and inventive ensembles, turns here to four Australian string quartets from the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
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.
Butterfly Modernism
Composer Eve Duncan’s third release is a two-CD set of chamber works that marks a clear shift in her musical language.
Lennox Berkeley: Music for Violin and Piano and Solo Violin
Sir Lennox Berkeley was one of the most accomplished British composers of the twentieth century. His prolific output spanned opera, theatre and film scores, symphony, chamber and piano music, and a large body of choral work.
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.
The Cello and the Mockingbird
Improvisations on beautiful melodies from cellist Imogen Manins with pianist Tony Gould and percussionist David Jones. Their second trio album gathers film themes, standards and original sketches, shaped in the studio through open improvisation.
Psalms
Psalms and chants from the Anglican and Taizé traditions, with two hymns, directed by Peter Chapman. Cantus Choro’s recording shows his love of Anglican psalmody, lively musicianship, and care for phrasing and words.
Monologues & Dialogues
This recording features the resonant, meditative colours of modern low flutes. Austere, breathy and at times eerie, these deep registers open a sound-world still little explored in woodwind writing, and invite a wide range of musical imaginings.
Brood Groove
"One of the most rewarding sessions I've recorded for Jazztrack. Maybe the stars aligned that day... the musicians really listening and responding to each other. It's music that surprises and explores."
Music of Don Kay
Chamber works for piano, flute and cello by Don Kay. Four of the six pieces were written for these performers, among them three piano sonatas receiving their premiere recordings.
The Lucky Ones
This solo piano collection gathers old and new standards, original pieces, film music and three works composed spontaneously at the keyboard, capturing Gould’s playing and ideas at a particular moment in life.
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.
Mendelssohn Cello
Mendelssohn is often cast as a composer who lived a charmed life, and whose music therefore lacks depth. The glory of that music, its likeability, and his gift for celebrating humanity remain primary reasons for its lasting hold.
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.
Below: Music for Low Flutes
This charming and rare recording features predominantly commissioned chamber music for low flutes, written to showcase their lyrical and colourful tonal qualities and to expand a small yet growing repertoire.
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.
Curiosities: Chamber Music by Eve Duncan
Chamber music by Australian composer Eve Duncan, performed by artists from Australia and abroad, among them the Australian National Academy of Music String Ensemble and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey.
Crystal Vision
This volume in the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection presents solo piano works by Japanese composer Kanako Okamoto. Two pieces written for Harvey, Petite Suite and Suite, join the title work Crystal Vision, which first drew him to her music.
Broadway Boogie
Broadway Boogie gathers premiere recordings of recent Australian piano works by Andrew Ford, Andrew Byrne, John McCaughey, Nigel Westlake, Mark Pollard and Michael Kieran Harvey, loosely linked by allusions to New York. Melbourne’s Herald-Sun named it the best classical CD of 2008.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam centres on John Lewis’s four-hand concert piece of that name, heard here in a world-premiere two-piano version. Martial Solal’s Suite for two pianos is likewise a first recording, framed by shorter works and improvisations from Tony Gould and David Ward-Steinman.
in depth
Emerging Brisbane-based ensemble Collusion has produced a disc of inspiration, imagery and energy in their first release for Move Records, In Depth. An enticing melting pot of influences, In Depth is comprised entirely of music written in the last twenty years.
Music of John Lewis
John Lewis's music joins romantic and classical lines with blues and jazz. Written for the Modern Jazz Quartet, these chamber-jazz pieces are freshly taken up by Alan Lee (vibraharp), Jo Abbott (piano), Ivan Rosa (bass) and Ben Hendry (drums).
Pictures at an Exhibition
Stephen Savage’s first Move release pairs Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with Liszt’s Two Legends and three Debussy piano works, including the less often heard Masques and … d’un cahier d’esquisses … beside L’isle joyeuse.
For Elvin...
This live set captures a real night with the long-running Ted Vining Trio: Ted Vining on drums, Bob Sedergreen on piano and Barry Buckley on bass. Guitarist Stephen Magnusson makes a special guest appearance on two tracks.
Place
When Aaron Choulai was only twenty-one, Paul Grabowsky called this debut “a milestone in Australian jazz”. The disc presents original compositions recorded in a New York studio with leading American players.
Chopin: Complete Ballades and Scherzi
Having successfully recorded Chopin's complete études, pianist Ian Holtham turns to the four ballades and four scherzi: eight large-scale works among the composer's most individual, characteristic and dramatic pieces.
Bridges, Vol. 1
Chamber works by Australian, Korean and Romanian composers, recorded by Monash University staff and guests, mapping cultural bridges across Eastern Europe, North Asia and Australasia after decades of relative isolation.
Beethoven Pathetique
On the second volume of his Beethoven piano sonatas, Ronald Farren-Price tackles the famous Pathétique Sonata, the G major Sonata (Op. 14 No. 2), two Rondos and the beautiful late-period A-flat sonata, Op. 110.
Southeast
Southeast is the debut recording of the Baartz Freeman Sextet: original jazz that draws freely on West African, New Orleans, Cuban and New York currents in a warm, open contemporary language.
From Within
Move's ARIA-nominated jazz duo returns to the studio for a long-awaited second album. The repertoire ranges further than before, lifting the energy of the spirited pieces and deepening the expression of the gentler ones.
The Last Will and Testament of John Sangster
Tony Gould, Len Barnard, Graeme Lyall and friends honour one of Australia's unsung jazz heroes. These final Sangster scores, played by leading colleagues, form a warm and fitting tribute.
Landscapes of Middle Earth
The fourth and final volume in Move’s restored reissue of John Sangster’s jazz-inspired Tolkien cycle. First a late-1970s double LP, Landscapes of Middle Earth reached CD in 2006.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 3
The third volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic after J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this ambitious Australian trilogy reaches CD for the first time here.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2
The second volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic on The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this music reaches CD for the first time in this Move reissue.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1
Not Howard Shore's film score, but Australian jazz and film composer John Sangster's ambitious 1970s musical portrait of Tolkien's characters and events, restored here on a double CD more than twenty-five years after the original EMI LPs.
Mozart
Having already tackled Liszt, Chopin and Godowsky, Ian Holtham turns to Mozart in this solo piano recital for Move, continuing his survey of the virtuoso keyboard repertoire.
Giants in the Land
Recorded in Melba Hall, this world premiere finds Melbourne pianist Ian Holtham in a brilliant cross-section of Australian contemporary piano works by Brenton Broadstock, Linda Kouvaras, Stephen Ingham, Stuart Greenbaum, Johanna Selleck and Christine McCombe.
Tuba Magnifique
Ian King, painter, scientist and tuba player extraordinaire, joins pianists Margaret Schofield and Dean Sky-Lucas for a wide-ranging recital that is truly très magnifique, spanning Spanish dances, Bach, Fauré and Kreisler.
The Impressionists
In his debut CD for Move Records, Stephen McIntyre offers a programme of impressionist piano favourites by Debussy, Ravel and Satie, including Images, Children's Corner, Gaspard de la Nuit and the Gnossiennes.
PianoWorks
Linda Kouvaras’s piano works respond to three places: Ormond College at Melbourne University, bayside St Kilda, and Bundanon on the Shoalhaven. Each set reflects lived experience of a distinct site.
Theme & Deviations
Sonny Chua performs a thrilling selection of his popular piano works, including the Sonatina, the subversively charming Assorted Fairies, and Theme and 12 Deviations – a wickedly hilarious, dazzling set of variations-to-end-all-variations on Chopsticks.
Poème: Music for the Romantic Violin
The internationally renowned violinist Miwako Abe and the pianist David McSkimming play works by French composers active in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, sometimes inspiring each other and occasionally forming rivalries.
River Story
Jazz pianist Tony Gould joins Australian guitarist and composer Peter Petrucci for a programme of originals and standards, shaped by spontaneous duo interplay rather than fixed arrangements.
A Liszt Recital
Ian Holtham's acclaimed recital showcases works by the great, enigmatic, and quintessentially romantic pianist and composer Franz Liszt. The programme centres on Holtham's masterful reading of the monumental Sonata in B minor.
The Chopin Collection
Rita Reichman's early studies with Mieczysław Horszowski and Jorge Bolet place her in a direct teaching line from Chopin. That heritage gives her playing of these piano masterworks uncommon integrity and authority.
La Follia
La Follia variations by Corelli, Vitali, Vivaldi and Scarlatti, in vivid performances by German recorder virtuoso Susanne Ehrhardt with Australian harpsichordist and organist Jacqueline Ogeil.
The Bach Family Circle
Music for oboe and harpsichord. Acclaimed historical oboist Geoffrey Burgess and harpsichordist Ann Murphy explore the hypothetical voice of the lost Bach oboe through realisations and rescorings.
Sonate Metodiche
Two of Australia's finest Baroque musicians, Hans-Dieter Michatz and Linda Kent, perform Telemann's rarely heard Sonate Metodiche for Baroque flute and continuo. Six large-scale sonatas display the variety, colour and detailed ornamentation of the high Baroque.
Pictures
In Pictures, Ian Holtham leads the listener through Romantic piano masterpieces: Mussorgsky’s gallery cycle Pictures at an Exhibition, Schumann’s masked-ball Carnaval, and Tchaikovsky’s rustic Doumka.
Dreamtracks
Music for clarinet by Australian composers. Celebrating Australia’s landscape, spirit and composers, Dreamtracks gathers some of the finest contemporary Australian writing for solo clarinet, clarinet and piano, and unusual chamber combinations.
Buxtehude at the Harpsichord
Acclaimed harpsichordist Jacqueline Ogeil performs rarely heard Buxtehude harpsichord works. Most of these secular pieces surfaced only in the twentieth century; suites, arias and variations in popular Baroque idioms, light and entertaining in character.
Acts of Homage
Acclaimed pianist Ian Holtham marks the centenary of Brahms’s death and the bicentenary of Schubert’s birth. The programme sets Schubert’s late impromptus beside Brahms’s Handel Variations and late piano pieces, with Godowsky’s song transcriptions as a further homage.
Bon Voyage!
Igor and Olga Piano Duo's debut album charts a piano-four-hands itinerary from Bernstein's America through Brahms, Rachmaninov, Gavrilin, Ravel and Moszkowski to Grainger's Faeroese dance.
Bolero: Music for Organ 4 Hands
Douglas Lawrence and Elizabeth Anderson play organ four hands on the Melbourne Concert Hall’s French-style Casavant. Bolero gathers favourites and rarities arranged or written for two players at one console.
The Tony Gould Quartet: Live in Concert
Captured live in concert, this album of well-known and much-loved jazz pieces features the acclaimed pianist Tony Gould and Graeme Lyall, one of Australia’s greatest saxophonists.
Con Sentimento
Thomas Jones gives exuberant, virtuosic performances of Fritz Kreisler’s best-loved compositions and arrangements, joined by pianist Rachel Valler in a celebration of Viennese romantic violin style.
Organ at the Opera
One of Move's all-time best sellers. Sydney City organist Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen play popular organ duets on the famous Ronald Sharp organ in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
A Golden Christmas: for Flute and Harp
Elizabeth Koch and Suzanne Handel. A superb collection of popular Christmas carols and songs, arranged for the charming combination of flute and harp.
Phoenix Songs
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, the recorder is enjoying something of a renaissance. Six well-known Australian contemporary composers pair it with piano, harpsichord, voice and live electronics.
Imo Pectore
With Ian Holtham as guide, Imo Pectore – ‘music from the inner-most recesses of the heart’ – gathers four works of private intensity by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Rachmaninov.
Goldberg Variations
A rare chance to hear Bach’s complete Goldberg Variations with every repeat, the fourteen canons on the Goldberg bass, and the Italian Concerto, played by Elizabeth Anderson on harpsichord. Two CDs for the price of one.
Teamwork
An eminently listenable collection of piano music for four and six hands. Romantic, brilliant and companionable by turns, it is an exciting, all-stops-out tour de force from the Team of Pianists.
Unanimity
Two grand pianos, one disc: Bob Sedergreen and Tony Gould, leading Australian jazz improvisers, in a rare live duo of spontaneous piano performance.
Ronald Farren-Price Plays Chopin
With a virtuosity that has become the hallmark of his performing career, Farren-Price pays tribute to the creative genius of Frédéric Chopin in this carefully selected programme.
Telemann Duo Sonatas
Lesley Lewis and Joanna Dudley give the first recording of Telemann's second book of Six Duo Sonatas on two recorders: light-hearted Baroque chamber music built on short, memorable themes.
Études
Ian Holtham, piano. Chopin’s twenty-four Études, Op. 10 and Op. 25: perfect examples of their genre, wonderfully innovative in texture and uncompromisingly challenging in technical difficulty.
It's Music: Active Listening for Children
This CD and its accompanying booklet are designed to introduce children to basic musical concepts through active listening, movement and play.
Musical Portraits from the Salons of Paris
Harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson recreates a salon concert from pre-revolutionary Paris. Grand, lively ‘character pieces’ by Forqueray, Duphly and Balbastre — musical portraits of celebrated figures — are brought to life with deft, accomplished playing.
Baroque Trumpet and Strings
Sonatas and suites by Corelli, Torelli, Telemann, Purcell and Handel sit beside rarely heard works by Molter, Grossi and Biber, several recorded here for the first time on original instruments.
Capella Corelli Plays Handel and Telemann
Capella Corelli has long been one of Australia’s foremost baroque chamber ensembles. Here they present sonatas by Handel and Telemann for baroque violin, recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord.
Complete Bach Flute Sonatas, Vol. 2
Acclaimed artists present superb performances of the complete Bach flute sonatas.
Complete Bach Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1
Acclaimed artists present superb performances of the complete Bach flute sonatas.
Australia Who? – America's Cup winner 1983
In 1983 Australia won the America's Cup, the first time a non-American yacht took the trophy in the race’s 132-year history.
Australian Folksongs... Now!
A mid-1980s vocal synth-pop take on familiar Australian folk songs by The Australia Music Band, whose members include Peter Barlow and Brenton Broadstock.
The Echo of Opheus
Vihuela music of Renaissance Spain. On vihuela, the ‘Spanish lute’, John Griffiths offers an intimate programme of fantasies, variations, intabulations and dances by the great sixteenth-century Spanish masters, framed by the Orpheus legend.
Listen to the Band, Vol. 2
This children's sing-along follows Volume 1, which featured Shirley Jacobs with a traditional jazz band, continuing the series with familiar songs for young listeners.
Spirit of the Rainbow
Tony Gould’s sensitive, imaginative piano meets Brian Brown’s passionate flute, haunting pan pipes and saxophone. Some themes were written for the duo; others grow from spontaneous improvisation.
Melbourne Windpower
Directed by Richard Runnels. Wind octets by Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, Bozza and Australian Graham Powning, recorded in the clear, natural acoustic of the Melbourne Concert Hall.
Fandango
Flamboyant Spanish and French Baroque keyboard music from harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson, joined by Douglas Lawrence on chamber organ for Soler’s two-keyboard concerto and Couperin’s musettes.
An anthology of sacred hymns for classical guitar
Twelve well-known sacred hymns in solo classical-guitar arrangements by American guitarist James Sundquist, among them How Great Thou Art, Joyful Joyful we adore thee and Morning has broken.
Mostly Bach
Flautist David Bloom and guitarist Peter Lynch present Bach's D minor suite arranged for solo flute, the C major flute sonata, and Mauro Giuliani's Grande Sonata in A major for flute and guitar.
Debussy Preludes Book One
These first twelve preludes show Debussy’s achievement at the piano, expanding its range and orchestral colour. Ronald Farren-Price brings exceptional sensitivity to the set.
Hymns For All Seasons
Sixteen further hymns from Cantus Choro, recorded in the grand acoustic of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. The programme opens with Advent and follows the great events of the Christian year, with Norman Kaye at the organ and the Melbourne Brass Ensemble.
Ya-de-ya
A laid-back nightclub scene, a smoothed-out jazz band, and Linda Cable’s strong voice pouring down like silver: this classic LP from the Melbourne jazz singer gathers seven original songs in that polished club mood.
Polyphony
The Phones were an a cappella group with a comedic bent. This 1984 album largely reflects their interest in contemporary music of the preceding twenty-five years, mixing pop classics with Australian songs and original pieces.
Wildflowers
Composed in 1984, Wildflowers blends sounds of the Australian bush with free jazz. Across nine tracks the music is liberated from any obligation to fashion or idiom.
Haydn 250th Birthday Celebration
Pianist Ronald Farren-Price marks Haydn’s 250th birthday with three major keyboard works: the Sonatas in E minor and C minor, and the Variations in F minor.
Peter Sculthorpe: Piano Music
Thirty years of piano music by Peter Sculthorpe, one of Australia's finest composers, in exemplary performances by the Team of Pianists, Michael Hannan and the composer himself.
Broken Words
Chamber works for concert flute, alto flute and piccolo; baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and alto saxophone; and piano by Frank Millward. Broken Words explores how technology is reshaping musical communication and meaning.
Life and Love
Cameron Roberts plays Johann Sebastian Bach at the piano, joining original keyboard works with his own arrangements and those of Busoni and Lipatti.
True Romantics
In True Romantics, clarinettist Philip Arkinstall and pianist Kristian Chong bring lyrical warmth to Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, and Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, here in Roger Young’s clarinet transcription.
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.
Solos Duos Trios
Chamber music by Haydn Reeder for soloists and small ensembles, composed between 1998 and 2023. Piano, strings, flute and harp in solos, duos and trios, nearly all recorded here for the first time.
Being
Daniel Pini presents five works for solo cello by living Australian composers. Victoria Pham, Brett Dean, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Liza Lim and Carl Vine each shape a distinct sound world, offering a vivid survey of contemporary Australian composition.
Summer Waves
Len Vorster plays a personal recital of short piano works by Gershwin, de Falla, Lord Berners, Berkeley, Field, Grieg, Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel, drawn toward summer light, dance rhythm and nocturne stillness.
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.’
Lachlan Brown Chamber Works
Lachlan Brown’s Chamber Works offers an hour of beautiful, relaxing music for his favourite instruments and ensembles: piano, harp, organ, violin, cello and string quartet.
Trying to Remember What I Chose to Forget
Three sonatas for violin, viola and cello with piano by Frank Millward probe how we listen, process and choose what to remember. Graeme Jennings, Trish Dean and Alex Raineri give the works their first recordings.
Evenings with the French Horn
Mark Papworth (natural and valved horns) and Rosa Scaffidi (piano) play Berlioz and Blanc in repertoire that sets the two French horn types of the late nineteenth century side by side.
Walsingham
Renowned Australian lutenist Rosemary Hodgson’s Walsingham gathers Elizabethan lute variations on a sacred ballad into a contemplative Marian rondo of mysticism and pilgrimage.
New Wine in an Old Bottle
Mark Papworth on natural horn and Amanda Millar on piano and cello present New Wine in an Old Bottle, new sonatas for natural horn by Australian composer Thomas McConochie, cast in a neo-classical style that recalls the pre-valve golden age of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
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.
Fable
This solo harp collection spans sixty-six years of original Australian composition. Jacinta Dennett performs works by Australian women composers, showing the instrument’s distinctive colour, range and expressive force.
Rhythms of Green and Gold
John Martin’s solo piano recital gathers nineteen short works by ten Australian composers, from ragtime and blues to waltz and jazz-tinged lyricism.
Flowers Still Bloom
Guitarist–composer Michelle Nelson presents original works for solo guitar and concert ukulele, with harp and recorder duos, crowned by the eight-movement Isolation Suite written in Melbourne’s first Covid lockdown.
Dreaming in the Sand
Robbie James’s String Quintet No. 3, Dreaming in the Sand, is given a raw live performance by the Bentley String Quintet at Brisbane’s New Benner Theatre. Across nine movements it visualises early colonisation through a dream of a nation founded on inclusivity—a dream that still shapes Australia.
Eclipse
Intended for 2020, this album and the Concordia Mandolin & Guitar Ensemble were eclipsed by the pandemic. Three years on comes Concordia’s sixth CD: chamber works by Michelle Nelson for plucked strings.
The Dying Sun
Composers have long been inspired by the idea that we are not separate from nature but part of it, and that music can speak from that innate part of us. Award-winning composer Rebecca Erin Smith’s piece is both a connection to and a reflection on natural landscapes, featuring violinist Madeleine Antoine and pianist Setsu Masuda.
Jazz-Funk
Funk Engine, formed in 2013 by Sydney Conservatorium jazz graduates, returns with a tight, danceable set that revives jazz-funk for a new generation.
Liszt's Italian Pilgrimage
Pianist Tristan Lee performs nine works by Franz Liszt shaped by Italian art and literature: the seven pieces of Années de pèlerinage: Deuxième année: Italie, and the two Légendes.
Muse
Australian recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley joins the Acacia Quartet for the premiere recording of six Australian works for lower-voiced recorders and string quartet, drawing on poetry, mythology, historic song and storybook characters.
Christmas Variations
Harpist Megan Reeve gathers Christmas music in theme and variation: familiar carols, a French Noël, Britten, Bach–Gounod, and an Australian lullaby, with flute on two tracks.
Ernest Bloch: Viola and Piano
Violist Barbara Hornung and pianist Danaë Killian have long made the viola and piano works of Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880–1959) the heart of their duo, spanning Jewish-themed chamber music, solo viola and piano miniatures for children.
Six Concerti
Hans-Dieter Michatz and Monika Kornel present Georg Philipp Telemann’s Six Concerti from the 1734 Six concerts et six suites, scored here for voice flute, tenor recorder and harpsichord.
Novum
Kitty Xiao’s chamber works from 2013 to 2016, played by the Nimbus Trio with guest bass clarinet on the closing score.
Duo Blockstix: Works for Percussion and Recorder
Duo Blockstix is a unique Australian ensemble of recorder player Alicia Crossley and percussionist Joshua Hill, formed around the woody tones and sharp articulation of this unusual pairing.
Chopin: The Nocturnes
Pianist Nancy Tsou (pronounced "Zo") brings rare intensity to Chopin's nocturnes. She hears in this night music what few performers catch, and a lifelong devotion to the composer shapes every phrase.
Return to the Dance
Guitarist-composer Michelle Nelson presents original guitar works that reclaim the long bond between guitars and dance, from Spanish Baroque reflections through 1970s rock colour to contemporary EDM influence.
Kevin Kanisius Suherman presents Schimmel Konzert 219
Kevin Kanisius Suherman presents the new Schimmel Konzert 219 concert grand in a recital that sets Romantic and early twentieth-century piano works beside his own arrangements of Indonesian song.
Aurora Borealis
Pianist and composer Ken Herrera draws inspiration from across the world and the full colour of the musical spectrum. Embracing melody and meaning, he charts an independent course in contemporary waters.
Arnold Schoenberg: Complete Works for Piano Solo
Australian pianist Danaë Killian presents Arnold Schoenberg’s complete published solo piano works, a repertoire she has studied and performed since her Basel recital of the cycle in 2001.
The Sky Is Melting
Marianne Rothschild and Glenn Riddle formed as a duo in 2004, recording Stuart Greenbaum’s Sonata for Violin and Piano for the CD Mercurial. Broadcast on ABC Classic FM, ABC Radio National, 3MBS FM and Radio New Zealand, they have premiered and recorded many works by Melbourne composers including Broadstock, Greenbaum, Pertout, Schmidt and Kouvaras.
After the Fire
Australian composer and guitarist Michelle Nelson presents After the Fire, a programme of her own chamber works. Melodic and contemporary, the music draws on Australian places and histories while remaining rooted in traditional craft.
Diapason
This CD marks 150 years of the Bishop Kelly Pipe Organ at St Patrick’s, Mentone. Built by Frederick Nicholson for Prahran’s Independent Church, it is among Australia’s most significant historic instruments. Christopher Trikilis and Dr Gordon Atkinson explore its colours for two and four hands, in music by Vierne, Walther, Hesse, Bonelli and others.
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.
Tales from the Dead Sea
Melbourne composer and pianist Ken Herrera's music draws together an extraordinary range of influences, from savage flamenco to delicate French impressionism, and from Middle Eastern and North African improvisation to the impassioned playing of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner.
Kevin Kanisius Suherman plays Schimmel Konzert 280
Young pianist Kevin Kanisius Suherman presents a full recital of Schumann’s Carnaval, Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven, recorded on the new Schimmel Konzert 280 concert grand.
New Norcia: A Spanish Rhapsody
The Team of Pianists present Spanish and Spanish-tinged piano music as a tribute to New Norcia’s Benedictine heritage, from Infante and de Falla to Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole.
Six English Suites
Judith Lambden performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s six English Suites, BWV 806–811, complete on piano across two discs.
Spanish Fire - Danzas Españolas
Two of Australia's foremost interpreters of Spanish music, Deanna Blacher (castanets) and Cameron Roberts (piano), join forces in a duo arrangement of Granados' twelve Danzas Españolas.
Sunburnt Aftertones
Katy Abbott’s chamber music, spanning her career to date, shows her gift for drawing listeners straight into an evocative sound world. Place, travel and instrumental colour shape these direct, pictorial scores.
Kevin Kanisius Suherman plays Schimmel Konzert 213
For more than a century Schimmel pianos have delighted pianists and listeners. Here young pianist Kevin Suherman presents a recital of well-loved works chosen to display the Schimmel Konzert 213 concert grand.
Impromptu
A collection of Impromptus, Fantasies and Impressions for piano solo, played by Brian Chapman. Although only two pieces carry the title Impromptu, many of the other works share an improvisatory quality.
Voyage
"Life is not about the beginning of the end, but rather the journey from one to the other . . . the Voyage." The songs are dedicated to the artists’ children Isabel, Natasha, Ricky and Macushla – who, for better or worse, are constantly inspirational.
Brolga Dances
The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra presents contemporary Australian works written or arranged for mandolin and guitar, spanning landscape pieces, dances and chamber textures.
Now and Then
Although he first came to prominence on the jazz scene a half century ago, Ornette Coleman still scares people. But his compositions, rooted as they were in classic blues, have long appealed to jazz listeners of every stripe.
Quiet Place
Each of the eleven tracks is a song without words. Written over a number of years, these pieces by Andrew Blyth share a concern for simplicity and directness of expression throughout the set.
Thinking with Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire (1921–1997), the Brazilian educator then in exile, was a staff consultant with the Office of Education at the World Council of Churches in Geneva when these talks were recorded. Made during his 1974 visit to Australia, they were given in English.
Second door on the left
What happens when you mix four dynamic performers with imaginative and unique compositional voices? Second Door on the Left explores the clarinet’s range, from fragments of ancient melody to twenty-first-century fusion.
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.
Still Gazing at the Moon
John Mills is an Australian composer working and recording in Melbourne. Raised in a musical household that nurtured his love of the guitar, he was already a keenly sought-after performer and teacher by his early twenties.
A Classical Christmas Journey
Deb Podbury’s piano programme recasts familiar Christmas carols as witty pastiches in the styles of Liszt, Bach, Debussy, Chopin and other masters—seasonal listening that pairs beauty with clever stylistic play.
Bach: Goldberg Variations, Original Transcriptions
Cameron Roberts, already marked out as one of Australia’s finest young artists, makes his recording debut with an all-Bach piano recital centred on the Goldberg Variations.
Hushhhhh little baby
Hushhhhh little baby gathers well-known songs and lullabies on the C-Bass recorder, shaped to soothe a baby to sleep with a calm, repeating voice.
This is clarity
Take a journey of sonority and style with Australia's unique chamber ensemble, Clarity. Leave any pre-conceived notion of the clarinet at the door – they explore every genre from contemporary art music to Led Zeppelin, infusing their performances with energy and life.
Team of Pianists presents the Schimmel K 256
Australia’s Team of Pianists inaugurates Schimmel’s Artist Collection on the new K 256 concert grand, with Brahms duets, Romantic and Impressionist solos, Saint-Saëns with clarinet, and Carl Vine.
Unearthly Music: Music by Australian Women Composers
A tribute to twentieth-century Australian women composers, this flute and piano recital gathers lesser-known chamber works in the hope that listeners, performers and programmers will bring the music to a wider audience.
Soul of the Viola
Composed with the limited viola repertoire in mind, Gabriel Anthony Doheny and Fintan Murphy present new works and one Beethoven transcription for solo and accompanied viola, aimed at students and teachers seeking fresh teaching material.
Freshwater Road
Freshwater Road is a collection of music performed and composed by acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Lucas Michailidis. With a penchant for character-rich melodies he is lyrical, audacious and at times, downright scandalous.
About Time
Drummer Mark Lockett's debut About Time gathers a strong Melbourne jazz front line for modern standards and one original, telling fresh stories in the spirit of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Sparkling Keys
Sparkling Keys celebrates the creative partnership of the National Trust and the Team of Pianists. Over a decade that partnership produced Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea and concerts at Como, Labassa, Illawarra and Barwon Park.
Quirky
Melbourne saxophonist Pete Mitchell’s debut with his quartet and guests: ten original jazz pieces that swing from funky grooves to ballads, samba and sly humour.
Kuri: Romantic Flute
Australian–Japanese flautist Masahide Kurita (“Kuri”) offers Romantic virtuoso works for solo flute and flute with piano, with Len Vorster. The selection includes Nielsen’s Fantasy Pieces, the Donizetti Sonata, Lemmoné’s Graceful Dance and Honegger’s Danse de la chèvre.
Jewel
Australian gems for violin and piano. Jewel gathers works by some of Australia’s finest composers, among them Peter Sculthorpe, Margaret Sutherland, Don Banks and Vincent Plush.
A Sympathetic Resonance
Peter Constant presents classical guitar works by Australian composers, joined by Marion Schaap on guitar, Mardi McSullea on flute and Helen Noonan, soprano.
Dusting Off Roses
The debut recording of Mark Pollard’s piece for two guitars, played by Z.O.O. Duo – Peter Constant and Marion Schaap – in five short movements of spare, atmospheric chamber writing.
Praise the Lord his Glories Show
Sacred music from the 16th century through Baroque and Romantic repertoire to Afro-American spirituals, sung by one of Melbourne's finest choirs under Douglas Lawrence.
Mozart at Melbourne
Mozart works for piano and violin, two pianos, piano duet and solo piano, played by members of the Team of Pianists with guest violinist Leonard Dommett. 1967 sonata performances sit beside later keyboard sessions for the bicentenary.
Pianists of Excellence
The Team of Pianists is acclaimed in Europe and Australia for vitality and freshness of technique. This recital presents solo piano works by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms and Sculthorpe, played by four of its members.
Stir the Sky
Stir the Sky is pervaded with places visited and people met, with movement and music-making. Love, laughter, fond memories and bittersweet recollection run through it. Each track is like a journal extract, a highly personal record offered for sharing.
Julian Yu 10 CD Collection
Ten Move CDs of Chinese-Australian composer Julian Yu, spanning chamber, piano and clarinet works written over decades, with Move 50 as a bonus disc.