MERLYN QUAIFE with Jochen Schubert on guitar
present a programme of songs
MOZART:
Ridente la Calma;Oiseaux si tous les ans;Die Zufriedenheit
Komm, liebe Zither
MORETTI:
La Reflexion;La Explicacion;El Descuido
SCHUBERT:
Heiden-Röslein;Nacht und Träume;Ständchen
GERHARD:
La Indita; El Toro ; La Ausencia; Un Galan y su Morena;
La Lobada; La Muerta y la Donzella; Reinas de la Baraja
GUSTAVINO:
Severa Villafane; Ay Que el Alma; Puebliti, mi pueblo
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Australia's most acclaimed early music group La Romanesca perform music of Christian, Moorish and Jewish Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries
CD includes:
Three Sephardic Songs (traditional)
Four Songs of Santa Maria (13th century)
Two Mozarabic "Jarchas" by Moreno and Valdivieso
Five songs from the Christian Courts
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RICHARD RUNNELS (horn)
with Brachi Tilles (piano and harpsichord
and Tony Gould (piano)
play music from 1734 to 1984:
Gould: Duet for Horn and Piano
Mouret: Divertissements in B flat and D major
Gallay: Fantaisie Brillante on a theme from Bellini's "Norma"
Brubeck: Strange Meadow Lark ; Bluette ; Lamento
Powning: Impromptu for Horn
Strauss: Nocturno
Wilder: Suite for Horn and Piano
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"Stockhausen meets World Music" (Rolling Stone, 1998)
This imaginative CD is by composer and musician
COLIN OFFORD who performs on tradtional Australian aborigine instruments and sound sculptures
and contains:
Three Sisters
Earthharp
West Wind Drift
Heartland
Last of the Night
Pacifica Suite
Riding on the Rim
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TONY LEWIS plays music composed by him for
The Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre
Tracks:
MIMI - opening scene
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE
THIS TIME, THIS PLACE
MIMI - incidental music
HUNTERS
PASSAGE
MIMI - closing scene
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EDWARD THEODORE
plays the organ of St Patrick's Cathedral,MELBOURNE
*with the Schola of St. Patrick's Choir,
directed by John Mallinson
Tracks:
FUGUE on the theme of the Carillon at Soissons Cathedral, op.12
PRELUDE, ADAGIO AND CHORALE VARIATIONS on "Veni, Creator", op.4
SCHERZO,op.2
PRELUDE AND FUGUE on the name "Alain", op.7
*INTROIT FOR THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
PRELUDE on the Introit for the Feast of the Epiphany
SUITE, op.5
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George Dreyfus is one of Australia's prominent musicians and highly sought after for film scores. Here twelve of his best known themes are played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra
conducted by George Dreyfus
Tracks: RUSH (original and orchestral versions)
BREAK OF DAY
LET THE BALLOON GO
LAWSON'S MATES
POWER WITHOUT GLORY - main theme see volume 2 = MD3238
POWER WITOUT GLORY - Nellie's theme
MARION
A STEAM TRAIN PASSES
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"A Florentine Annunciation"
Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 1417
Les Six directed by John Stinson & Hartley Newnham
SECTIONS:
Amor dolce sence pare; Introit; Kyire; Gloria;
Alleluia; Ave maris stella; Sequence; Sermon;
Gloria; Credo; Offertory; Sanctus; Motet;
Agnus Dei; Communion; Lauder vollio per amore;
Benedicamus Domino
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"I am Music" - works of Francesco Landini
The Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century
directed by John Griffiths and John Stinson
TRACKS:
Musica Son; Fa metter bando; Altri n'ara;
Deh, pon quest'amor giu; Angelica bilta;
Non creder, donna; Vita non e piu misera;
Ama, donna,chi t'ama; Amore con fede;
Ecco la primavera; Donna,che d'amor senta;
Oime'l core; A le's'andra lo spirto;
Che cosa e questa, Amor; Amor in te spera;
O fanciulla giulia; Che pena e questa al cor;
Or su, gentili spirti; Si dolce non sono;
Contemplar le gran cose
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"Every Delight and Fair Pleasure" - Music of Northern Italy
The Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century
directed by John Griffiths and John Stinson

TRACKS: anon (from the Rossi manuscript) :
Cum altre uccele; Per tropo fede; Or qua compagni;
Lavandose le mane; Nel mio bel orto;
Chiamando un' astorella.
Maestro Piero:
All'ombra d'un perlaro; Ogni diletto;
Quando l'aire comenza; Con bracchi assai;
Si come al canto della bella Iguana;
Cavalcando con un giovine acorto.
Bartolino da Padova:
La douce cere; Serva ziascuno; Le aurate chiome;
Alba columba; Imperial sedendo; Non corer troppo;
Sempre dona t'amai.
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This series comprises secular music by the principal composers and collections of the era. Most have never been recorded elsewhere and they are both entertaining and instructive as to the very different sound world which existed 700 years ago. Volumes 2 3 and 4 are in this webstore.
TRACKS: (*indicates more than one version on this CD)
Jacopo da Bologna:
Si come al canto*; Fenice fu; In su bei fiori;
Giunge 'l bel tempo de la primavera;
Aquila altera; Uccel do dio; Creatura gentile;
O in Italia felice Liguria; Osselletto silvagio*;
Lux purpurata; Diligite iustitiam; Tenor;
O cieco mondo; Sotto l'imperio del possente prince.
Giovanni da Firenze:
Piu no mi curo; O perlaro gentil; Per larghi prati;
Nascoso el viso*; Agnel son bianco; Fra mille corvi;
O tu cara scienza; La bella stella; De' come dolcemente
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Wonderful romantic music for an unusual combination, performed by Prudence Davis (flute); Jeffrey Crellin (oboe); Peter Lynch (guitar)
Tracks include:
Faure: Pavane
Giuliani: Serenade in G for flute and guitar
Coste: Consolazione: romance sans paroles; Les Regrets; Marche
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ponce: Sonata III for solo guitar
Debussy: Syrinx; Rêverie
Four folk songs from Somerset
Four folk songs from Essex
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LARRY SITSKY is a pianist and composer with an enormous reputation in his native Australia but his music has not been widely available elsewhere. Here we present a number of major works:
De Profundis (libretto by Oscar Wilde)
Lyall Bevan (baritone), Graeme Leak (percussion)
Petra String Quartet, Canberra School of Music Quartet
Gurdjieff: Violin Concerto no.2
Jan Sedivka, violin,
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, cond Omni Hadari
Fantasia no. 2
Petra
Larry Sitsky (piano)

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"Melbourne Windpower plays up a storm" - Melbourne Herald

An unusual name but a superb wind ensemble, here presenting rare classical masterpieces, including:
Haydn: Feldpartie in B flat, Hob.II:43
Powning: Wind Octet
CPE Bach: six Sonatas
Bozza: Octanphonie
Beethoven: Parthia in E flat, op.103

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(FIRST EVER RECORDING)
George William Louis Marshall-Hall (1862-1915) was one of Australia's first significant composers. He dedicated his Symphony in E flat to his "friends and comrades under the Southern Cross", Streeton and Roberts. This is lively and passionate music, exuberant and rich in orchestral colours with strong thematic ideas. The Symphony was premiered in Melbourne in 1904, then played at Berlin (under Nikisch) and in London under Henry Wood. It had not been performed since 1907 until this recording was made. The CD also includes the Adagio Sostenuto from Marshall-Hall's Symphony in C minor.

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The Choir of Ormond College is directed by Douglas Lawrence and accompanied by organist John Mallinson in a fabulous festival of Yuletide carols and songs which includes:

We wish you a Merry Christmas - Sans day carol - Angels from the Realms of Glory - All this time this song is best - Away in a manger - Up good Christian folk and listen - A babe is born I wys - Ding Dong Merrily on High - In Dulci Jubilo (4 versions all by Bach) - Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing - The blessed Son of God - Good King Wenceslas - Past 3 o'clock - Adam lay y'bounden - God rest you merry gentlemen - Coventry Carol - The holly and the Ivy - The three kings - Von Himmel Hoch (Pachelbel) - All my heart this night rejoices - Personent Hodie - A spotless Rose - What Cheer!

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A programme of baroque gems made to come alive by the harpsichord and organ duo of Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence, both players the equal of any in the world -try it and see. The Tracks are:
Soler: Concerto VI in D for two organs
Soler: Fandango
Couperin: La Favorite (Pieces de Clavecin, Livre 1)
Couperin: Musete de Choisi; Musete de Taverni (Livre 3)
Rameau: Gavotte; Doubles de la Gavotte
CPE Bach: 12 Variations auf die Folie d'Espagne
D. Scarlatti: Sonata, K 140 in D major
D. Scarlatti: Sonata, K 141 in D minor
Balbastre: La Lugeac (Pieces de Clavecin )

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Billy Williams was Australia's first "pop" recording star, and made hundreds of records for several companies. He is still a cult figure for collectors all over the world, and songs such as "When Father papered the parlour" were often heard into the 1960s. Here are 23 songs, recorded between 1907 and 1914, selected from original records in the National Film and Sound Archive.Tracks include:
John John put your trousers on
The taximeter car
The hobnailed boots that Father wore
Tickle me, Timothy!
Put a bit of powder on it, Father
Little Willie's Woodbines
I must go home tonight
Girls of today
The land where the women wear the trousers
I've found Kelly
When Father papered the parlour
St Kilda
Let's have a song upon the Gramophone
Chanticleer
I never heard Father laugh so much before
Take me where there are no eyes about
She does like a little bit of Scotch
It's a grand old song
The kangaroo hop
Wait till I'm as old as Father
The ragtime wedding
There must be something nice about the Isle of Man
There's life in the old dog yet

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Ros Bandt is an Australian musician and composer who excels in everything from Renaissance to contemporary. She has recorded several CDs of her own music, using traditional and experimental instruments.

"A nice ear for unusual sounds..." - New York Times

Tracks: Stargazer + After Meditation + Pipe Dance + Genesis + Spring Flutes + Invading the Landscape + Mee-Ow + Subterra + Mary at the Dairy + Starzones

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Diane Riddell (flute) , Geoffrey Dodd (oboe),Maria Swift (clarinet), George Dreyfus (bassoon),Joschen Schubert (guitar), Bruce Knappett (narrator) present a fascinating mixture of modern chamber works, some serious, some just good fun. The CD contains:
Dreyfus: Rush
Dreyfus: The Adventures of Sebastian the Fox
Dreyfus: Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Sutherland: Little Suite for Wind Trio
Dreyfus: Old Melbourne - suite for bassoon and guitar
Weiss: Petite Suite for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Piston: Three Pieces for flute, clarinet and bassoon

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