Susan Graham’s recital reviewed
David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:
David Vance commends Susan Graham’s ambitious programme:
Raising Sparks The Australia Ensemble John Clancy Auditorium, University of New South Wales, March 14, 2015 Raising Sparks was the first subscription concert by the Australia Ensemble for 2015. This was a delightful presentation of 20th century chamber music was performed by core members, Dimity Hall and Dene Olding (violins), Irina Morozova (viola), Julian Smiles…
Virtuoso harpsichord player Mahan Esfahani has released a new recording of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Australian audiences will remember his brilliant performance at Brisbane Baroque 2016 where he was a leading act. The release of this disc coincides with Esfahani’s December 2016 performance of the Goldberg Variations at London’s…
Fantasia Sabine Meyer/Alliage Quintette City Recital Hall 26 February 2018 It was something akin to a family gathering when German clarinet virtuosa Sabine Meyer and the Alliage Quintette performed Fantasia for Musica Viva. Fantasia was for Meyer, a welcome return to Australia and for the quintet, their national debut. The Alliage Quintette is no regular…
orchestra seventeen88 The Chapel of Santa Sabina College, Strathfield 9 August 2014 The launch of a new orchestra is always a risky business. Three years ago the Orchestra Romantique was formed for historically informed performances of music of the Romantic period but it gave only a few performances before its disappearance at the end…
Peter McCallum reviews the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s The Reef: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/dream-dashed-by-clanging-cymbals-20120724-22n2p.html
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, The Australian Haydn Ensemble, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Monday 29th September 2014. When Daniel Barenboim undertook his recently completed mission to perform and record all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, he did so playing a ‘concert grand’ piano, with a full orchestra – in the case of the recordings, the Staatskapelle…