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...
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...
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...
Phoenix Collective | East-West Fusion Greenway Chapel, 24 April, 2022 I had been hoping to hear the Phoenix Collective perform and was lucky enough to catch them on my home patch, namely Greenway Chapel near Gosford and I was not disappointed. The venue is spacious...
Sydney Mozart Society | Frank Celata and Friends March 31, 2022, The Concourse, Chatswood Friends are always welcome particularly when they are musicians of the highest standard, and clarinetist Frank Celata is particularly lucky in this respect, but of course he is a...
Gerard Willems | Carnaval March 31, 2022, Australian Digital Concert Hall Carnaval is a very early piano piece by Schumann but to my mind transcends anything he wrote subsequently. Carnaval is a pre-Lent festival in Germany in which there are masked balls featuring...
Scarlatti wrote no less than 555 piano sonatas and it’s perhaps not surprising that of the 23 played on this CD set I had only heard one previously - K14 in G major played by Vladimir Horowitz. Australian pianist Ian Holtham does not suffer by comparison, his playing...
CD Chamber Works Vol. II - Released March 18, 2022 I have previously extolled the virtues of Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth, and his latest recording, rather more conventional, does nothing to alter my opinion. His Oboe Quartet could not have better exponents...
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Northern Serenades March 23, 2022 City Recital Hall Richard Gill’s dream of promoting varied and exciting music has been realised in the excellence of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. Last night we had...
Balmain Sinfonia | Elgar, Mozart, Brahms 19 March 2022, Congress Hall, Sydney The Balmain Sinfonia, like its sister provincial orchestra in Willoughby has improved in leaps and bounds. I’m told that the previous 'creaky strings' were due not to the quality of the...