CD Recordings of Australian Music, available from the Australian Music Centre Shop
The Australian Music Centre Shop maintains the largest selection of recordings of music by Australian composers. Listed below are titles from the Centre's own Vox Australis label, together with selected recent releases.
CD Categories
Featured CD
Solo Sax Show
This unique collaboration features Tim O'Dwyer on saxophone and Michael Hewes working with a Yamaha SPX 900 to manipulate and modify sound.
Instrumental
Burning House, $26.00
Satsuki Odamura's latest CD features music by a range of Australian composers whose approach to writing for the koto differs markedly. The collected works bring together a kaleidoscope of characters, cultures and sounds.
But I Want the Harmonica..., $26.00
The Australian Music centre is delighted to release Jeanell's first CD of works discovered during her research into Australian solo piano repertoire. But I want the harmonica... is a collection of seven previously unrecorded piano works representing a kaleidoscope of styles from seven Australian composers.
Flute Ascendant, $26.00
The eight solo flute works on this disc are among the most beautiful, complex, and technically demanding in the late twentieth century repertoire. Between them, the works require use of virtually all of the extended techniques devised for the instrument.
Hammered, $26.00
Hammered is Jeanell Carrigan's third CD of Australian piano works and takes its name from Stephen Leek's composition of the same name, a quirky work for prepared piano which ends up sounding more like a Gamelan orchestra lost in Newtown than a piano.
Piano Games, $26.00
This collection of Australian piano music consists of works classed as 'teaching material', composed for pianists - not necessarily children - who are still developing the necessary skills for performance on the instrument. In spite of their pedagogical intent, they are delightful pieces to perform and enjoyable for a performer at any level.
Solo Sax Show, $26.00
This unique collaboration features Tim O'Dwyer on saxophone and Michael Hewes working with a Yamaha SPX 900 to manipulate and modify sound. This remarkable set of improvisations is not for the faint-hearted: prepare for a weird and wonderful show!
Spin, $26.00
Spin is the latest CD of Australian piano music by renowned pianist Dr Jeanell Carrigan. The scope of influence ranges from popular music and jazz to cluster chords and good old fashioned tonality.
Chamber and Jazz
After the Fire, $26.00
Some of Australia's leading virtuosic soloists perform works by Australian composers Richard David Hames, Michael Whiticker, Liza Lim, Chris Dench and Timothy O'Dwyer.
Anamika, $26.00
Anamika represents a unique and compelling confluence of ideas from North Indian classical music, traditional and contemporary Japanese music, many Western forms including jazz and classical and much more.
Beyond El Rocco, $26.00
This compact disc is a selection of tracks taken from the film Beyond El Rocco and throws important light on developments in the Australian jazz scene over the last 30 years.
Mizu to Kori, $26.00
The music composed in West Australia is energetic, exotic and evocative, and the performance of contemporary music in the west is equally rich. These elements are elegantly captured by Nova Ensemble in this recording.
Samsara, $26.00
Represented here is a diversity of Australian compositional styles ranging from rhythmically driven music to the more abstract influences of twentieth century European traditions.
Sky Song, $26.00
Sarah Hopkins and Alan Lamb reflect the vastness of the Australian landscape as they perform The Winds of Heaven, Sky Song, Cello Chi, Mirages, Flight of the Wild Goose, New Journey.
Synergy Percussion, $26.00
A CD celebrating the Australian Music Centre and Synergy Percussion's 30th birthdays! This historic re-release features one of Australia's oldest and most respected new music ensembles and includes a bonus video track.
Orchestral
Forbidden Colours, $26.00
Four orchestral works, from four Australian composers: Gerard Brophy, Roger Smalley, Riccardo Formosa, and Bozidar Kos. Featuring soloists Jeffrey Crellin (oboe) and Dene Olding (violin) performing with the Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.
Nexus * Nocturnes, $26.00
Orchestral works by Banks, Humble, Meale and Kats-Chernin, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Judy Bailey Quintet. Nexus, a jazz fusion orchestral work, is performed here by some of Australia's best-known jazz musicians and the SSO performance of Nocturnes won the national Sounds Australian Award.
Roger Smalley: Orchestral Works, $26.00
Roger Smalley's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra took top place in the IMC International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, in 1987. This CD features Smalley performing this work as soloist with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and Smalley's Symphony performed by the Sydney Symphony.
Tasmania Symphony, $26.00
From the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra come two orchestral works: Don Kay's symphony The Legend of Moinee, inspired by a Tasmanian Aboriginal legend, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Sinfonia da Pacifica, containing Hindu material later used in her opera The Transposed Heads.
Vocal, Choral and Dramatic
Boojum!, $27.00
Music theatre work by Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith based on the works of Lewis Carroll, performed by the Sydney Philharmonia with soloists Robyn Archer, Michael Askill, Tony Backhouse, Anna Broinowski, Jane Edwards, David Hamilton, David Miller, Akiko Nakajima and Anthony Walker.
Deep in My Hidden Country, $26.00
World-renowned soprano Marilyn Richardson sings four major Australian works by composers Peter Sculthorpe, Brenton Broadstock and Larry Sitsky.'s The Stars Turn and Eliza Fraser Sings, Brenton Broadstock's Eheu Fugaces, Larry Sitsky's Deep in my hidden country.
Harvest, $26.00
A recording featuring exquisite performances from some of Melbourne's finest musicians: Isin Cakmakçioglu (violin), Robert Chamberlain (piano), Ian Cousins (baritone), Jeannie Marsh (mezzo-soprano) and Tamara Smolyar (piano).
Laughter of Mermaids, $26.00
Stylistically diverse Australian vocal music by young and established Australian composers, using texts from an equally diverse range of sources:mediaeval Latin poetry, A A Milne, the Song of songs, Lorca, and the young Australian writer and painter Maria Blakely.
Seymour Group, $26.00
The Seymour Group performs two works which have become classics in the Australian repertoire. Lumsdaine's Aria for Edward John Eyre charts the sound world of an historic Australian journey of discovery, and Butterley's The Owl is an exploration of a psychological inner world and a desire for wisdom and freedom.
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, $26.00
The bombing of the Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior in 1985 had a profound effect morally and historically in the South Pacific. This CD from Vox Australis contains the radiophonic version of the opera, performed by The Song Company and musicians of austraLYSIS.
