Susan Graham’s recital reviewed

David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:

David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:
The Parsons Affayre St James, King Street, Sydney 9 March 2014 Miserere – Music for Lent The Parsons Affayre was formed in 2009 as an elite choral group, normally with two singers per part and specialising in Renaissance polyphony. Directed by Warren Trevelyan-Jones, a Lenten concert has become a regular feature of their calendar…
Murray Black reviews Sumi Jo’s recital for The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/deja-vu-of-the-best-kind/story-fn9d2mxu-1226519854341
Czech Fantasy, Orava Quartet, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 26 October, 2018. Written by Ria Andriani Performing in the Opera House is a highlight in any musician’s tour. The Orava Quartet’s Utzon Room performance of Czech Fantasy was just that, not just for them but for their audience as well. Completing their debut Australian tour, they’re…
It was an evening when the gentlest of instruments took centre stage. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, performed music for fortepiano and period flute by Mozart and his contemporaries. Upstaged by its more precocious descendent the pianoforte, the fortepiano is infrequently heard as a solo instrument, often being relegated to the role of an accompanying instrument….
In April 2015, there was a landmark performance of Philip Glass’s Twenty Études for Piano at London’s Barbican Centre. The composer handpicked four pianists to perform with him, effectively anointing them as exponents of his art. One of these pianists was Vikingur Ólafsson, a brilliant young musician from Iceland. It is this repertoire that Ólafsson…
The Sacred Music of J S Bach/Bach Akademie Australia St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Paddington 21 April, 2018 Formed a year ago in April 2017, by violinist Madeleine Easton, the Bach Akademie Australia has gathered a formidable reputation as interpreters of the music of JS Bach. Their latest performance was an immersion in his…