Salon Société, Musical Luminati Series, Twilight Musical Dialogues Adamstown Uniting Church, Newcastle 30 November, 2018 Adamstown Uniting Church, Newcastle, The final instalment of the Twilight Musical Dialogues’ 2018 series Musical Luminati, entitled Salon Société Omega Ensemble members Sally Walker on flute, David Rowden on clarinet and Clemens Leske on piano. Inspired by the French Salon tradition,…
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…
Joy – Farrenc and Beethoven Omega Ensemble, City Recital Hall, 25 September, 2018 Schubert’s exquisite-single movement trio piece known as Notturno in E flat major D 897 was the curtain raiser to Omega Ensemble’s Joy which featured as well, music by Beethoven, Louise Farrenc and Kats-Chernin. The music might have matched the twilight outside, but…