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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WindSong

Eric Klay brings his bass trombone centre-stage in a varied selection of stylish classic, contemporary, and big band pieces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brolga Dances

The Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra presents contemporary Australian works written or arranged for mandolin and guitar, spanning landscape pieces, dances and chamber textures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zalankara

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.