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Altiora Peto by Lachlan Skipworth

2MBS Subscriber giveaways CD of the Week Classical

Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth has been hailed by The Australian as possessing a ‘rare gift as a melodist’ and by Limelight as expressing ‘both exquisite delicacy and tremendous power’. His newest album, Altiora Peto, explores the expansive, with two concertos, a bass recorder rumination and the overwhelming force of a choral mass.

CD of the Week – Bartók Piano Works, Land of my Early Childhood

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The Hungarian-born Australian pianist, Julie Adam, has recently recorded a number of Bartók’s works in Budapest, Bartok Piano Works, Land of my Early Childhood. Of this endeavour she says: it is one thing to return to the country of one’s birth and feel at home. It’s another to be able to record there the music which has symbolised a lost and cherished childhood.

CD of the Week – Songs of the Southern Skies vol 2

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Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp share an intuitive musical connection developed over the, award-winning, last 20 years. Their new album, “Songs of the Southern Skies Volume 2” is out now...

CD of the Week – Lyhra

2MBS Subscriber giveaways CD of the Week Jazz

Celebrated singers, composers and performers in their own right, Trish Delaney-Brown, Sam Walton and Briana Cowlishaw combine their musical sensibilities to form the distinctive vocal harmony soundscape experience that is Lyhra’s debut EP.

Mosaic release their debut album

2MBS Subscriber giveaways CD of the Week Jazz

The 2MBS Fine Music Sydney Artist in Residence program is designed to support Sydney jazz ensembles with active promotion and provide extensive rehearsal opportunities. This year’s award went to a young 10-piece jazz ensemble the Mosaic Jazz Collective.

CD of the Week – One

2MBS Subscriber giveaways CD of the Week Jazz

Australian pianist Bill Risby brings in his new release One, a unique blend of passion and transcendence to this fully improvised one hour performance, infusing each note with emotion and depth. His unparalleled artistry and technical prowess elevate the music to new heights.

CD of the Week – Sidekick

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Ziggy and Miles’ latest album, Sidekick, showcases new works written for the brothers, and works that have shaped their musical identity from Spain, Latin America, and Australia. Named as one of New York Public Radio WQXR’s “Best New Classical Albums of 2023”, reflecting their "perfect unanimity and admirable virtuosity" as described by Soundboard Magazine.

CD of the Week – Ajar

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CHUTNEY is Australia's leading klezmer-fusion band. Their debut album Ajar is a degustation of folk, jazz, classical, funk, Latin, film and musical theatre - a whirlwind tour through Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Italy, Austria, Egypt, Israel and the USA - all refracted through the lens of contemporary Australia.

CD of the Week – Themes and Variations

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For his debut album, Themes and Variations, on the Decca Australia label, pianist Calvin Abdiel explores three sets of variations by the German Romantics, Brahms, Liszt and Schumann.

CD of the Week – Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes

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Nordic Moods & Baroque Echoes explores and dissolves musical and geographic boundaries. Recorded in Stockholm with Sweden’s Duo Langborn/Wendel, the unique instrumentation features voice, violins, viola da gamba, concert cimbalom, and lute/guitar.