Selby and Friends review

Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:

Harriet Cunningham reviews “Friends and Admirers” from Selby and Friends:
Two of Australia’s foremost instrumental experts, flautist Melissa Farrow and keyboardist Erin Helyard have collaborated in a recording for ABC Classic, A Viennese Bouquet in which they explore some choice early 19th century repertoire for flute and keyboard.
Composers in Exile Nexas Saxophone Quartet The Independent Theatre, North Sydney May 28, 2017 Nexas Saxophone Quartet: Soprano – Michael Duke/ Alto – Andrew Smith/ Tenor- Nathan Henshaw/ Baritone -Jay Byrnes / Voice and piano- Peter Coleman-Wright AO (Baritone) Written by Victoria Watson A bold and intelligent theatricality pervaded this concert of cabaret music from the Weimar period and its aftermath….
Sydney Chamber Opera recently presented a superb production of The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, highy commended by those who saw it. Peter McCallum reviews it for the Sydney Morning Herald: Click here to read.
This CD delights all the senses…sparkles, entertains, charms and in more ways than one, makes you want to get up and dance.
Midori and Mozart Midori Seiler/Australian Haydn Ensemble Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney COnservatorium of Music, 24 November, 2019. A programme of violin concerti and symphonies by Mozart and Haydn featured in Midori and Mozart, a refined afternoon concert by the Australian Haydn Ensemble, led from the violin by Guest Director and soloist Midori Seiler. The AHE’s Artistic…
Compassion/Nigel Westlake/Lior Sydney Symphony Orchestra ABC Classics 481 0678 First published in March 2014, this review is being re-published in the light of the nomination of ‘Compassion’ by Nigel Westlake and Lior, for Orchestral Work of the Year in the APRA AMCOS Australian Music Centre Art Music Awards for 2014. In October 2013, composer Nigel Westlake was awarded the…