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There’s ABC Classic FM Australian Music Unit’s audio-streaming archival recording collection classic/amp and an array of special web features including Waiting to turn into puzzles, Orpheus Remix Awards and The Lute Project.

And then there’s the AMU podcast delivering weekly mp3s of diverse new Australian music recordings and artist interviews direct to your computer.

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classic/ampThe Australian Music Unit launches classic/amp - a collection of online recordings of Australian classical and experimental music drawn from the ABC’s vast archives. Go to classic/amp home | Composer Index

MP3 Audio for Download

SOUNDSTREAM01: Alex Pozniak - Mercurial



John Addison
This AMU podcast features Alex Pozniak's Mercurial played by John Addison at the 2010 Soundstream Festival.
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Broadcast Highlights


Saturday 4 September 2010

3.00pm  Arthur Benjamin Anniversary
Wendy Hiscocks and Anthony Hunter Smith, piano 
This Saturday Session presents a studio recital of works focussing on the music of Arthur Benjamin and those who influenced his own compositions.
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10.30pm  Anthony Pateras: Pateras Takes the Academy

New Music Up Late takes you to Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne for a concert curated by composer/improviser Anthony Pateras, this year’s guest composer at the academy.
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Sunday 5 September 2010

12.05pm  Arthur Benjamin: The Man and his Music
Written and presented by Wendy Hiscocks 
In this Sunday edition of Music Makers Wendy Hiscocks explores the life of Arthur Benjamin, the Australian-born composer who died in London fifty years ago.
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Thursday 9 September 2010

7.05pm  Andrew Ford: Nine Fantasies about Brahms
TrioZ 
This live broadcast from the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney features Trioz piano trio in a program of Beethoven, Piazzolla, Brahms and the world premiere of Andrew Ford's Nine Fantasies about Brahms.
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Saturday 11 September 2010

1.00pm  Sydney Symphony in Edinburgh
Sydney Symphony 
recorded just earlier this month, this lunchtime concert broadcast, presented by Margaret Throsby from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, features the Sydney Symphony performing at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
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Tuesday 21 September 2010

1.05pm  Elena Kats-Chernin after Piazzolla: Re-Collecting ASTORoids: Movts 1, 4 & 5
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 
This lunchtime concert broadcast of the MSO includes the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin's Re-Collecting ASTORoids: Movts 1, 4 & 5.
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Puzzles

Puzzles

Waiting to turn into puzzles is a unique audio-visual collaboration between film art maker Louise Curham and composer David Young, presented here in flash-video and downloadable instalments. > more

Lute Project


Lute Project

Four new works for lute commissioned by ABC Classic FM
Find out about the instruments and the music, including video demonstrations by lutenist Tommie Andersson. > more

Orpheus Remix Awards

Orpheus Remix Awards

It is 400 years since the premiere of the world's first acknowledged opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC is inviting you to compose your own response to both the Orpheus myth and the notion of 'opera', in the form of original 4-minute works for radio. > more


Val Camonica pieces

Val Camonica pieces

The Val Camonica Pieces by David Young are a heterogenous collection of works for diverse ensembles and soloists created over a ten-year period in response to the composer’s experience of the huge collection of rock carvings scattered across northern Italy’s Camonica Valley. > more

The A-Z of Spiritual Music: a user's guide

A-Z

An intriguing new web project created by composer Richard Vella, which presents a collection of music, sounds, images, memories, definitions and anecdotes around key words linking musical and spiritual ideas. Produced by ABC Classic FM, the A-Z features new recordings of Sonic Art Ensemble.  > more

Elision Ensemble - 20 years young

Elision Ensemble

Listen to the Anniversary concert celebrating 20 years of the Elision Ensemble recorded on 11 June 2006.  > About this concert and Elision  >> Listen to the concert

New Music Up Late

Julian Day

For the latest in new Australian and international music, listen to Julian Day 10.30pm every Saturday in New Music Up Late. > more

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