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Trombone and Organ for Valentines, a beautiful and ancient pairing

Music at St Patrick’s | Jennifer Chou and Joseph Yu February 14, St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne, VIC The programme of music for trombone and organ, performed by Jennifer Chou and […]

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An uplifting and joyful Carols in the Cathedral

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic | Carols in the Cathedral December 22 2024, Melbourne,VIC The packed out Carols in the Cathedral is a firm staple in Melbourne’s music calendar, and each year, […]

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All Rise with MSO =  Epic. Grand. Exhilarating!

All Rise: Jazz at the Lincoln Centre with Wynton Marsalis and the MSO 25 August, 2023, Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne Epic. Grand. Exhilarating. Describing All Rise with any level […]

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Stefan Dohr with SSO – it was breathtaking! Literally

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 Friday 18 August, 2023, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House OLA RUDNER conductor STEFAN DOHR horn KODÁLY – Dances of Galanta R STRAUSS […]

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CD Review: Quercus Trio – Australian Horn Trios

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] QUERCUS TRIO Carla Blackwood horn, Elizabeth Sellars violin, Rhodri Clarke piano ROGER SMALLEY (1943–2015) – Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (2000–2002) [23’06] LARRY SITSKY (born 1934) – […]

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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 […]

Pidcock and van der Struik – sheer musical brilliance

St Stephens Friday Music September 9, 2022 Gregory van der Struik – trombone Christopher Pidcock – cello In a city with hundreds of topline professional musicians it is surprising that […]

Melbourne Composers’ League: a wonderful collaboration between two countries

The Melbourne Composers’ League | Song of the Eagle New Chamber Music from Australia and Albania 17 July, 2022, Church of All Nations, Carlton, Melbourne Johanna Selleck (flute) Carla Blackwood […]

MSO – sweet here, fiery there, mysterious when required

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko Conducts Elgar July 14, 2022, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Vasily Petrenko conductor Jack Schiller bassoon VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Wasps: Overture MATTHEW LAING Of Paradise Lost […]

Quercus Trio, superb! – Absolutely mesmerizing

Quercus Trio | Hall of Mirrors Wednesday, 22 June, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne-based horn trio ‘Quercus Trio’ – a musical group that champions both new and […]

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised

Bach Akademie Australia – Bach’s Easter Oratorio Friday 8th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall As we approach the Crucifixion of Passion season, the Bach Akademie Australia gave us […]

Holley’s ‘The Goodchild Canzonas’ a fitting tribute to a great musician

Lyrebird Brass | Top of the Food Chain: Bottom of the World Monday, 28 March, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Lyrebird Brass […]

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Daniel Brace

Trombone and Organ for Valentines, a beautiful and ancient pairing

Music at St Patrick’s | Jennifer Chou and Joseph Yu February 14, St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne, VIC The programme of music for trombone and organ, performed by Jennifer Chou and Joseph Yu, was obviously curated for Valentine’s Day, and it was lovely to see a number of couples complete with red roses and adoring gazes at home in the vast

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Daniel Brace

An uplifting and joyful Carols in the Cathedral

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic | Carols in the Cathedral December 22 2024, Melbourne,VIC The packed out Carols in the Cathedral is a firm staple in Melbourne’s music calendar, and each year, without fail, RMP Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Andrew Wailes, joined by the National Boys Choir of Australia Artistic Director Andrew Bainbridge, and assembled massed forces from across the city

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Brad Slater

All Rise with MSO =  Epic. Grand. Exhilarating!

All Rise:  Jazz at the Lincoln Centre with Wynton Marsalis and the MSO 25 August, 2023, Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne   Epic. Grand. Exhilarating. Describing All Rise with any level of useful detail is an impossible task. To label it as Jazz Symphony, in 12 movements, that utilises the forces of full symphony orchestra, 100 or so member choir, 6

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Alan Holley

Stefan Dohr with SSO – it was breathtaking! Literally

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 Friday 18 August, 2023, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House OLA RUDNER conductor STEFAN DOHR horn KODÁLY – Dances of Galanta R STRAUSS – Horn Concerto No.2 DVOŘÁK – Symphony No.7 A little personal preamble before writing about this concert; In October 2012 I spent a week with the composer Georges Lentz in

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Alan Holley

CD Review: Quercus Trio – Australian Horn Trios

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] QUERCUS TRIO Carla Blackwood horn, Elizabeth Sellars violin, Rhodri Clarke piano ROGER SMALLEY (1943–2015) – Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (2000–2002) [23’06] LARRY SITSKY (born 1934) – Barerq (1984) 4’05 ELENA KATS-CHERNIN (born 1957) – Velvet Revolution (1999) [15’49] GORDON KERRY (born 1961) – No Abiding City (2001) 12’01 DON BANKS (1923–1980) – Trio for Horn, Violin

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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 music focusing on brass instruments from Mozart and earlier under the “Mostly Mozart” banner. WAM!, an acronym of Mozart’s initials, is a

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Alan Holley

Pidcock and van der Struik – sheer musical brilliance

St Stephens Friday Music September 9, 2022 Gregory van der Struik – trombone Christopher Pidcock – cello In a city with hundreds of topline professional musicians it is surprising that only a small number continue to pursue concerts where they perform solo works and support Australian composers.  Foremost amongst such soloists are Principal Trombone of the Opera Australia Orchestra Gregory

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Alan Holley

Melbourne Composers’ League: a wonderful collaboration between two countries

The Melbourne Composers’ League | Song of the Eagle New Chamber Music from Australia and Albania 17 July, 2022, Church of All Nations, Carlton, Melbourne Johanna Selleck (flute) Carla Blackwood (French horn) Helen Bower (violin) Danaë Killian (piano) In a wonderful collaboration between two countries separated by such distance Melbourne audiences were able to hear live three of Albania’s leading

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Alan Holley

MSO – sweet here, fiery there, mysterious when required

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko Conducts Elgar July 14, 2022, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Vasily Petrenko conductor Jack Schiller bassoon VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Wasps: Overture MATTHEW LAING Of Paradise Lost first performance ELGAR Symphony No.2 I expect a large percentage of the audience for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s concert featuring Edward Elgar’s Symphony Number 2 were rusted on subscribers and thoroughly

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Andrián Pertout

Quercus Trio, superb! – Absolutely mesmerizing

Quercus Trio | Hall of Mirrors Wednesday, 22 June, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne-based horn trio ‘Quercus Trio’ – a musical group that champions both new and Australian works – in my mind could only be described as ‘a composer’s dream ensemble.’  The collective encompasses hornist Carla Blackwood (Lecturer in Music Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of

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Jane Downer

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised

Bach Akademie Australia – Bach’s Easter Oratorio Friday 8th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall As we approach the Crucifixion of Passion season, the Bach Akademie Australia gave us a prospective sighting of the Resurrection and hope of salvation with J S Bach’s Easter Oratorio and two Easter Cantatas, all composed for Leipzig in 1725, in a delayed streaming

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Andrián Pertout

Holley’s ‘The Goodchild Canzonas’ a fitting tribute to a great musician

Lyrebird Brass | Top of the Food Chain: Bottom of the World Monday, 28 March, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Lyrebird Brass ‘Lyrebird Brass’ – the name paying homage to native Melbourne icon; one of nature’s great imitators (no doubt in opposition to Aristotle’s view that proclaimed human beings as “the most

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