"the best of both worlds ... the NDA is a big band playing on period instruments". Murphy's CD albums for PENTATONE include Early Mannheim String Symphonies by Stamitz and Richter Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2003 and 2004), Corelli Concerti Grossi (2004), Joseph Schmitt "The Dutch Haydn" Early Symphonies (2006) and Zappa Symphonies / Symphonies from the Court of Orange, The Hague (2009). His 2017 release on PENTATONE, GRAND TOUR Baroque Road Trip, features works by Telemann, Vivaldi, van Wassenaer, Bach, and Murphy performing Telemann's Viola Concerto in G in the double role of soloist/director. His seventh album with PENTATONE, "JET SET! Classical Glitterati" (2019), features Murphy performing the Viola Concerto in E-flat by Zelter in the double role of soloist/conductor alongside first recordings of symphonies by Abel and Reichardt. Murphy's live performances have been featured on live CD sets by the Dutch national broadcaster and include performances of Mozart and Beethoven Symphonies. Other honours For the visit of the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to Italy in 2004, Murphy was chosen to programme and conduct the Royal Command Performance given in Rome's Palazzo Quirinale, broadcast live on RAI. Murphy arranged and conducted the music for the 400-year, bilateral celebrations between Australia and the Netherlands in 2006, in both countries. In 2009, he was chosen to represent the Netherlands at the Cultural Olympiade in Vancouver, Canada and at the Hudson 400 celebrations in New York. In 2012, he represented the Netherlands at the bilateral celebrations of 40 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and People's Republic of China. In 2016, he opened the official bilateral Dutch Australian 1616 - 2016 celebrations with a concert performance in the Sydney Festival at the Sydney City Recital Hall attended by the Governor General of Australia and the Dutch Ambassador, broadcast by ABC Classic FM. In 2004, Murphy was awarded the Netherlands' Edison Music Award. In 2005, his performance of Mozart Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) in the Utrecht Early Music Festival was chosen by the Dutch world service (RNW) as one of the highlights of the entire Dutch cultural season 2005–2006 and was featured in a series of live discs by the RNW. His performance of Beethoven's Symphony no. 1 and Haydn's Symphony no. 104 "London" in 2007 in the concert hall De Doelen, Rotterdam was chosen by Dutch broadcaster NPS as a highlight out of hundreds of hours of