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Released on International Women’s Day (8 March), this album presents music from five rising stars in the Australian art music scene – Christine Pan, Heather Percy, Ella Macens, Marlene Cummins and Elizabeth Younan – plus revered composers Anne Boyd and Deborah Cheetham Fraillon.

A new album of Alvin Lucier’s music (sadly published posthumously), featuring the Australian Art Orchestra with some key members and collaborators of Ensemble Offspring together performing two of Lucier’s large-scale immersive works.

This album celebrates the creative vision of 12 of the Ngarra-Burria program’s leading alumni. Each composer brings to their music the stories of their own country and peoples, as well as drawing on their extensive experience as established performing artists.

ABC Classic’s Women of Note albums celebrates Australian composers and their music. Released to coincide with International Women’s Day (8 March), this album begins and ends with works by Indigenous composers that focus on the importance of connection, communication and deep listening.

Recognised as one of Australia’s finest and most innovative composers, Mary Finsterer brings together medieval and renaissance musical practice with 20th and 21st century innovations. This collection of Finsterer’s recent works offers a series of atmospheric and evocative musical impressions, many of them recorded here for the first time.

The new single from composer Matthew Whiteside, recorded by Ensemble Offspring. The composer writes, “The name Rama is a reference to Arthur C. Clarke’s book Rendezvous with Rama. I always struggle with naming pieces but this reference floated into my head toward the end of the composition process and it seemed to fit the form …