Australian Haydn Ensemble | CPE Bach: Universe of Harmony December 11, 2022, City Recital Hall, Sydney It’s difficult to believe that in the second half of the eighteenth century, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach was far more famous than his illustrious father. Indeed when...
Articles + Reviews By Tony Burke
SSO Fidelio – Simone Young’s effervescence was infectious
Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young Conducts Beethoven November 24, Sydney Opera House To stage a concert performance of such a dramatic opera as Fidelio is a huge undertaking so imagine the task ahead when the title heroine performer had to withdraw the day...
TMO premiere Keyna Wilkins ‘ethereal’ Solar Triumvirate
Mendelssohn is one of many composers, in my opinion, who wrote a lot of average material and the occasional brilliant piece. His violin concerto and Hebridean overture are two of the latter and so is the music he composed for Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”...
Adam McMillan on ADCH – Exhilarating!
Adam McMillan | An Evening of Chopin Nov 9, 2022, Australian Digital Concert Hall Adam McMillan is best known to Melbourne audiences as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist. He has won multiple awards and can count among his teachers three “knights” namely...
WAM! A superbly composed concert by ANAM
Melbourne Recital Centre and ANAM| Mostly Mozart - WAM!! November 3, 2022, Australian Digital Concert Hall Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian National Academy of Music (live streamed on Australian Digital Concert Hall) produced an interesting vignette of...
Sydney Mozart Society, another intriguing, exciting programme from Tinalley
Sydney Mozart Society | Tinalley String Quartet November 3, 2022, The Concourse, Chatswood A larger than average audience attended the latest recital in the excellent series of Sydney Mozart Society concerts. Clearly many were aware of the reputation of the Tinalley...
Phoenix Collective’s incredible sympathy and dexterity
At first sight, the programme for Phoenix Collective's last recital for the year looked more conventional than usual but this proved not to be the case. There is an original flair to Phoenix's musical interpretations, and this shows in their choice of works. As usual,...
Diana Doherty and Bernadette Harvey – Heaven
Melbourne Recital Centre Great Performers Series - Diana Doherty and Bernadette Harvey June28, 2022, Australian Digital Concert Hall If you had a heart attack and woke to the sounds of Diana Doherty and Bernadette Harvey, you’d know you were in heaven. What a...
Faultless, Phoenix Collective return to Green Point
Phoenix Collective Quartet | Enlightenment June 12, 2.30pm, Greenway Chapel, Green Point The Phoenix Collective returned to Green Point with a more conventional but nonetheless eclectic programme which was much appreciated by a local audience. The performers entered...
A truly great performer – Jayson Gillham at Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne Recital Centre Great Performers 2022 - Jayson Gillham – Bach & Chopin Live streamed on Australian Digital Concert Hall, Monday 6 June 2022 7.30pm We can claim concert pianist Jayson Gilham as our own even though the Queenslander is now based in London...