CD Review: From The Hungry Waiting Country / Halcyon / Elliot Gyger

CD Review: From The Hungry Waiting Country / Halcyon / Elliot Gyger

From the Hungry Waiting Country is a new release by Halcyon, performing the music of contemporary Australian composer, Elliot Gyger. Released on the Tall Poppies label, it contains three works by Gyger, Giving Voice (2012), Petit Testament (2008) and the cycle from which the disc takes its title, From the Hungry Waiting Country (2006). Halcyon’s…

Halcyon’s Birthday Celebrations Continue With Women’s Work

Halcyon’s Birthday Celebrations Continue With Women’s Work

  The celebrations continue as Halcyon celebrates its 15th birthday! Halcyon presents a program of English and Australian works by women, revisiting the captivating music of Rosalind Page, Elisabeth Lutyens and Kerry Andrew, exploring the work of Helen Gifford for the first time and premiering a new chamber cycle by Moya Henderson. Elisabeth Lutyens’ setting of…

A little lunch music

A little lunch music

Looking for shelter from Sydney’s winter winds at lunchtime this Tuesday June 12th, you could seek out winds of a far more pleasurable sort at the The City Recital Hall’s lunchtime concert. For this concert, pianist and anchor of the series Kathryn Selby teams up with the New Sydney Wind Quintet to present the music of Jacques Ibert,…