Diana Doherty and the St Lawrence String Quartet

The SMH reviews Musica Viva’s presentation of Diana Doherty with the St Lawrence String Quartet. They perform again at the City Recital Hall on Saturday April 21st at 2 pm.

The SMH reviews Musica Viva’s presentation of Diana Doherty with the St Lawrence String Quartet. They perform again at the City Recital Hall on Saturday April 21st at 2 pm.
Wilcox proves that as she presses the ‘play’ button on the music of the future, she doesn’t hit the ‘delete’ button on music of the past. She has drawn on it for inspiration, inclusion and elaboration.
Renee Fleming’s new CD Poèmes celebrates Gallic vocal music from Ravel’s Orientalist infused Shéhérazade, written at the turn of the last century and Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, to Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou and a world premiere recording of Le Temps l’horloge by living composer Henri Dutilleux. The celebrated singer comments: ” For the sheer sensual joy of singing, no language gives…
Peter McCallum reviews the Steve Reich Celebration for the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/rhythms-unfold-with-a-timeless-grandeur-20120430-1xv0e.html …and from Murray Black at The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/three-ages-of-reich-revisited-with-brio/story-fn9d2mxu-1226343085722
The national youth choir Gondwana Chorale, conducted by Paul Holley and Carl Crossin, has released its debut recording SOAR. Featuring 16 tracks, both sacred and secular, most works are by living Antipodean composers. This repertoire is the hallmark of the ensemble, established in 2008, which has drawn its singers from around the nation. Contrasting with the…
This was an intelligent and entertaining line-up from an expert performer well-versed her specialist repertoire, proving yet again that there is always something new in the old.
Halcyon’s Waves III is is an important record of the pioneering work that Halcyon has accomplished in substantially broadening the canon of contemporary Australian song.