Children's
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.