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Australian pianist Andrea Lam shares the music that means most to her, from sublime Bach and Chopin to mellow Gershwin favourites.
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From the Seraphim Trio, a celebration of female composers with music by Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Dora Pejačević and a new work by Elizabeth Younan.
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The Crossing of a Sea explores themes of love, loss and transformation: ‘This life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship. In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.’
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra brings their unique energy and excitement to two chamber orchestra masterpieces: the Romantic splendour of Tchaikovsky’s joyful Serenade for Strings, and Shostakovich’s dark, visceral Chamber Symphony.
ACO Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich album cover: Silhouetted players on a reflective stage, with shadows rippling in red.

Celebrating Australia’s female composers: Maria Grenfell and Melody Eötvös, celebrated Indigenous musician Nardi Simpson, rising stars Leah Blankendaal, Juliana Kay, Jennifer Hankin, Julia Vlahogiannis and Katherine Potter, plus a new work from…
Women of Note Vol. 7 cover: Two weathered boulders at Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, against a pink sunset sky.

Crux Duo is clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff and pianist Lisa Moore – this is their debut album, featuring new music from Australia and the US, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata.
Cover art for My Place: Lloyd Van't Hoff (tall man with clarinet) and Lisa Moore (in black and white) on a park pathway.

Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra bring their unrivalled virtuosity and energy to works by two groundbreaking 20th-century composers, both celebrating the power and vitality of the folk fiddle.
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From internationally acclaimed piano virtuosa Andrea Lam and award-winning Australian composer Matthew Hindson comes an album of intimate, tender music that comes from the heart and goes straight to the heart.
A grainy view of a lakeside with a full moon and text overlay reads Matthew Hindson, Sad Piano, Andrea Lam - Piano.

Composer and trumpeter Louisa Trewartha draws on her experience of flooding in her hometown in this album for brass quintet, exploring the many facets of Australia’s relationship to water.
Album cover with a background of grey water and text over the top reading Louisa Trewartha Suite Water for Brass Quintet.

Luminous orchestral colours, exquisite melodies and virtuoso performances in this new album of music by Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth: two concertos, a bass recorder rumination, and glorious music for choir and brass.
Album cover with the text Lachlan Skipworth, Altiora Peto and a graphic design of overlapping blue shapes

The timeless and tender score to Adam Elliot’s poignant, heartfelt and hilarious award-winning new Claymation feature film ‘Memoir of a Snail’, composed by the internationally renowned Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.
Album cover for Memoir of a Snail: A clay woman with worried eyes, a slight smile, and a beanie with wires and ping-pong balls.

Emily Sun’s debut concerto album celebrates the violin as star of the silver screen: her world premiere 5-star performance of Fantasie im Wintergarten, written by Elena Kats-Chernin for Emily herself, plus Korngold’s lush cinematic Violin Concerto…
Cover art for Emily Sun: Film Fantasia: Close-up of Emily with violin scroll and pink-yellow blurred lights.

Night-time musings from composer and viola player Katherine Potter: this disc of nocturnes reflects on Potter’s relationships with her partner and her baby son, with herself, with the future and the past, and with the sheer beauty of a moonlit…
Cover art of poppies against black background & text Katherine Potter 8 Nocturnes Katherine Potter (viola) Adam Pinto (piano)

Expansive, effusive and energetic orchestral music by Australian composer Maria Grenfell, exploring Maori legend, Tasmania’s natural beauty, the struggles of immigrant workers, and explorer Matthew Flinders’ extraordinary cat Trim!
Cover art for River Mountain Sky: Composer Maria Grenfell sits with a music manuscript, gazing into the distance.

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