Trio Dali reviewed
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald
Jazz Inspirations, Streeton Trio Independent Theatre, North Sydney 26 August, 2018 Written by Paul Bennett This eclectic and very enjoyable program from the internationally acclaimed Streeton Trio nicely illustrated the broad range of influences composers employ to lend inspiration to their compositions. Billed as a program exploring the works of composers inspired by the jazz era, those…
Songs of Splendour – A Venetian Coronation The Choir of St James’/The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral/Australian Baroque Brass Conducted by Paul McCreesh St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney 21 May 2014 It is now twenty-five years since Paul McCreesh first compiled his conjectural reconstruction of the music performed at the coronation of Doge Marino…
Intrepid Voyagers Sydney Youth Orchestra Verbrugghen Hall, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music April 2, 2017 Written by Deen Hamaker There is a constant undercurrent of commentary on the future of classical music and whether it can survive into the future as our attention spans shorten and audiences drift away from traditional art forms. In the…
The Barber of Seville – Gioachino Rossini Opera Australia, 28 January 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Elijah Moshinsky’s 1995 production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville has proven, over the subsequent 20 years, to be one of the company’s most popular and enduring. Although set in the 1920s it is an otherwise traditional production…
‘Collusion’ The Marais Project: Jenny Eriksson with Susie Bishop, Emily-Rose Šárkova and Eliska Sarka Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium 24 August 2014. 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Marais Project and their director Jennifer Eriksson has adopted a theme of Re-imaginings which she explains is ‘taking the opportunity to re-imagine my instrument, the viola da…
This review was first published in June 2013. The album contains four motets by composers whose music Julia Lezhneva will perform during her October tour of Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. “From time to time a really outstanding talent appears and I believe that Julia Lezhneva is just that. The brilliance of her voice…