Album Review: Something Like This/ Avie Records/Walker/ Granger
Flautist Sally Walker and harpist Emily Granger release their new album, Something Like This in November, on the UK-based independent classical music label Avie Records.
Album Review: Airs sérieux & à boire/ Les Épopées
Specialist French Baroque ensemble Les Épopées, directed by Stéphane Fuget has recently released a CD, Airs sérieux & à boire. These songs composed by Marc-Anoine Charpentier continue the series of discs for this recording house Chateau de Versailles.
Album Review: Life On Land’s Edge/ Bowerbird Collective
Life on Land’s Edge is music with an environmental conscience. Its pure sounds are pleasurable to listen to and intensely calming.
Concert Review: Winter Nights/ Sydney Chamber Choir
They crooned and scatted, bobbed and whistled. This was the Sydney Chamber Choir in alter-ego mode, presenting Winter Nights, a concert program with a fresh twist.
Concert Review: Die Stille Nacht/ Australian Haydn Ensemble/Greco/Farrow
The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Die Stille Nacht featuring baritone David Greco and flautist Melissa Farrow, reached beyond the era by which it is defined and presented a charming selection of Baroque works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Hasse and Biber.
Concert Review: Mendelssohn String Quartets/ Nomad String Quartet
This quartet use musical means to hold fascinating interchanges that revel in emotion and intellectual rigor.
Concert Review: The Mozarts, The Haydns & The Bear/ Australian Haydn Ensemble
Classy and clever entertainment which which drew threads through and along generations, connecting father with son and brother with brother.
Concert Review: Arabella Steinbacher Performs Lentz/ Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra cinducted by Umberto Clerici with violinist Umberto Clerici took music beyond the notes on the stave in this concert .
Concert Review: Elgar’s Cello Concerto/ Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sir Runnicles honed a fine performance, from an expert ensemble that was disciplined but which drew colours and dynamics to convey the power of this monument of 20th century musical history.