Contemporary Classical

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.