![Emily Sheppard – Age-old (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/04/02/mqokprl30e6qa_600.md.jpg)
Emily Sheppard – Age-old (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Emily Sheppard is a Tasmanian violinist, violist, improviser and composer who is inspired by unconventional and resonant places and spaces, as well as science and the environment.
Trained at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, she is in the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Van Diemen’s Band and has collaborated with Paul Kelly, Katie Noonan, DJ Spooky and Michael Kieran Harvey.
Emily spent four weeks in residency in Tasmanian caves in 2017, supported by Arts Tasmania funding. Throughout this period she composed several new works for solo viola/violin, incorporating extended techniques such as alternative tunings, prepared violin and singing while playing. She has curated performances in Hastings Cave, Marakoopa Cave and Mt Wellington/kunanyi observation shelter, supported by Arts Tasmania and Hobart City Council grants.
![David Berlin, Benjamin Martin – French Cello Sonatas (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/06/csp0qrgbpaufb_600.md.jpg)
David Berlin, Benjamin Martin – French Cello Sonatas (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The cello’s rich, singing tones are a perfect match for the passionate eloquence of the Romantic era. In the masterful hands of David Berlin, Principal Cellist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, partnered by internationally acclaimed pianist Benjamin Martin, the cello reveals its sublime range of colours and timbres.
This intimate album presents radiant music for cello and piano from three masters of the French Romantic: the lyrical beauty of Chopin, the elemental power of Saint-Saëns, and serene elegance from Louise Farrenc.
![David Griffiths – Stuart Greenbaum: a Trillion Miles of Darkness (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/24/yux4sib6fiawa_600.md.jpg)
David Griffiths – Stuart Greenbaum: a Trillion Miles of Darkness (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
At its centre is Greenbaum’s Sonata for Clarinet – a work of plangent atmospheric sound; a journey that subsumes the listener. Clarinetist David Griffith’s interpretation is bespoke, masterful. With associate artists Timothy Young and Ken Murray, the album provides a rewarding arc of chamber music.
![David Greco – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/07/mcvp4vi9ljunc_600.md.jpg)
David Greco – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Following their 2018 recording of the great song cycle Winterreise, David Greco and Erin Helyardcontinue their exploration of Schubert’s songs with their new recording of Die schöneMüllerin. Composed in 1823, it is one of the earliest extended song cycles, and one of Schubert’s most important works.
![Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra – Sunshine Sounds (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/13/dt2nuxp2hyhkc_600.md.jpg)
Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra – Sunshine Sounds (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
The album opens with Chris Perren’s musical deep dive into the richness of a single instant, A Luminous Moment, Unfolded, and closes with Erik Griswold’s affectionate homage to the world of disco, Love to Love Your Strings, Baby!. In between, John Rotar explores the enigmatic vastness of the Western Queensland grasslands in Plains Baked Golden in the Morning Light, Samuel Dickenson’s Returning to the Sand blends the past and present of K’gari (Fraser Island), and Connor D’Netto celebrates the lush yet unvarnished beauty of the country around Charleville. After the pulsing rhythmic geometry of Isabella Gerometta’s Beams and Waves, we hear the joy and relief of the first drops of rain on long dry soil in Christopher Healey’s Renewing Rain. Cameron Patrick’s joyous tribute to white cockatoos in flight, Little Corellas: Allora, 1987 is followed by Alexander Voltz’s tribute to the landscape and people of the Queensland gemfields, Central Highland Rounds and the sweet melancholy of Robert Davidson’s Elegy, from A Short Hour Unseen.
![Seraphim Trio – Beethoven Piano Trios (2016) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/25/rl5zlzlho804b_600.md.jpg)
Seraphim Trio – Beethoven Piano Trios (2016) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
The Seraphim Trio make a welcome return to ABC Classics with an album of Beethoven’s piano trios.
Beethoven’s trios are amongst the finest works in the chamber canon, taking the form spawned by Mozart and Haydn and developing it into a musical genre which reached symphonic proportions in its musical language and virtuosity.
![Bentley String Quintet – Robbie James: The Marree Sisters (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/21/dzm3o163j7fea_600.md.jpg)
Bentley String Quintet – Robbie James: The Marree Sisters (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]
The music of Robbie James has been described as “a journal through time and space with deep respect for our vast and varied land.”
With The Marree Sisters, Robbie takes us deep into the heart of Australia, to the outback town of Marree, at the starting point of the Birdsville and Oodnadatta tracks, a tiny community of European, First Nations and Afghan cultures on the edge of the central deserts.
The music evolves from the isolation and harsh conditions of those stark plains, and follows the five teenage Marree sisters – the composer’s own mother and aunts – as they take the culture of their little town to the big city in search of work, love and their own families.
The Marree Sisters frames the love and friendships carved from hardships that would imprint authenticity into the lifelong bonds they would make.
![AVÉ Australian Vocal Ensemble – Tumbling Like Stars (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/08/05/aa8arfe023cma_600.md.jpg)
AVÉ Australian Vocal Ensemble – Tumbling Like Stars (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
Four of Australia’s finest vocalists come together in a visionary performance combining heavenly vocals in a chamber setting. Katie Noonan’s new project, AVÉ Australian Vocal Ensemble, will intertwine new Australian compositions by Anne Cawrse, Robert Davidson, Thomas Green, Alice Humphries, Zac Hurren, Stephen Leek, Katie Noonan and Jessica Wells, alongside new arrangements of music by Bach, Handel and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
![Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti – Indies & Idols (Live In Concert) (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/22/u2y3l90acp1ja_600.md.jpg)
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti – Indies & Idols (Live In Concert) (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
‘Indie’ cross-over composers and their Polish avant-garde heroes come together in a program about musical inheritance. The “Indies & Idols” program is an excellent example of artistic director Richard Tognetti’s flair for making a unified narrative out of the apparently eclectic. In this case – a meeting of the heroes of the Polish avant-garde with some contemporary ‘indie’ cross-over artists who admire them.
Tognetti thinks that the contemporary composers of “Indies & Idols” – Jonny Greenwood, Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner – are the inheritors of what has been a “slow-motion response” to the upheavals of Modernism. This generation that I’m part of, and younger, have all responded to Modernism in a sort of slow dance, if you like”, he says. “It’s taken a long time.
![Andrew Blanch, Ariel Nurhadi – Alchemy (2020) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/19/ypu702yprgzyc_600.md.jpg)
Andrew Blanch, Ariel Nurhadi – Alchemy (2020) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Two of Australia’s hottest young guitarists take us on a trip through time and around the world of classical guitar.
“Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi are the rockstars of Nylon-Acoustic Classical music. Whilst their technicality as musicians are immediately apparent, so also is their love for music and performing.” On Sounds