Tafelmusik reviewed….

Peter McCallum reviews Tafelmusik for the Sydney Morning Herald. Tafelmusik repeat their concert at the City Recital Hall on Saturday March 10th at 2 pm.

Peter McCallum reviews Tafelmusik for the Sydney Morning Herald. Tafelmusik repeat their concert at the City Recital Hall on Saturday March 10th at 2 pm.
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…
orchestra seventeen88 Chamber Soloists “Big Schoolroom”, Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst Saturday 21st November 2015 Kate Clark, flute/ Nicole van Bruggen, clarinet/ Darryl Poulsen, horn/ Lisa Goldberg, bassoon/ Jakob Lehmann, violin /Caroline Henbest, viola /Daniel Yeadon, cello/ Maxime Bibeau, double bass The ‘Big School’ room of Sydney Grammar School on College Street was an apt setting for orchestra seventeen88’s end of year…
Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House 27 January 2015 Each year, Opera Australia has followed its Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production with indoor performances of the same opera during the following year. Presumably this is intended to entice patrons who enjoyed a performance under the stars to try ‘real’ opera…
From a seemingly inexhaustible repository of Baroque arias comes a collection from Decca, entitled Baroque Divas. The recording celebrates the beauty (or perhaps the beast) that is the Baroque aria along with its unique style of singing, instrumental playing and the 21st century musicians who are keeping its practices alive. Although the arias were all…
The individual singing and excellence of ensemble took us majestically to somewhere magical, transcending both time and place.
Pastoral Fables, a new album from ABC Classics is a collection of eight Romantic works, mostly transcribed by Alexander Oguey for cor anglais and piano, performed by Oguey, cor anglais (Marigaux, Paris) and Neal Peres Da Costa, grand piano (Viennese action grand piano after an 1868 model by J B Streicher and reproduced by Paul McNulty)….