I Musici review
Sydney turned on its glorious best last Sunday for I Musici’s Italian Summer presentation in the Royal Botanic Gardens:
Sydney turned on its glorious best last Sunday for I Musici’s Italian Summer presentation in the Royal Botanic Gardens:
Twilight Musical Dialogues – Musical Kin – Husband and Wife Sally Walker (flute and artistic director), Clemens Leske (piano), Ami Williamson (singer-songwriter), Naomi Blanch (saxophone), Alexander Quayle (percussion) Adamstown Uniting Church, Newcastle 21 June 2019 Written by Andrew Chubb Twilight Musical Dialogues’ concert “Musical Kin – Husband and Wife”, featured works by composers linked not…
“The poem has not been completed until set to music” – Goethe. If Art Song needs to be re-invented to survive and evolve, the new CD “Serious Songs” from bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (ABC Classics 476-4383) points in the right direction. The CD takes its title from Brahms’ Four Serious Songs,originally composed for bass and piano,…
The ‘Fab Four’ of chamber music, France’s Modigliani Quartet, returned to Sydney to perform under the auspices of Musica Viva earlier this week. Hamstrung by an injury to resident cellist François Kieffer on the rain washed streets of Paris during the week before they left for Australia, the tour was salvaged by friend and colleague…
Flautist Sally Walker and harpist Emily Granger release their new album, Something Like This in November, on the UK-based independent classical music label Avie Records.
Haydn & Mozart Australian Haydn Ensemble, fortepiano soloist – Dr Erin Helyard/ cello soloist – Daniel Yeadon City Recital Hall July 16, City Recital Hall, Sydney Writer: Leona Geeves The Australian Haydn Ensemble, under the Artistic Direction of violinist, Skye McIntosh, with Guest Director and fortepiano soloist Erin Helyard and cellist Daniel Yeadon presented the timeless music of two…
Norwegian-born composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo has released a new CD on the Decca Classics label (478 8689), Ola Gjeilo, featuring music for voices, piano and strings. Now based in Manhattan, Gjeilo is increasingly popular in the US and the UK. His music hit a high in Sydney in 2014 with performances by Vox (Dark Night…