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CD Review: Scarlatti’s Steinways at Melbourne

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 […]

Composer Byron Mark releases first single from new album…

Burbujas’ is the first release off Australian composer Byron Mark’s new instrumental album Odyssey. Scored for piano, string quartet, tabla (Indian drum) and cajon (flamenco drum) the piece is inspired […]

CD Review: Lachlan Skipworth | Chamber Works Vol. II

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 […]

CD review: Yardley’s transcendent medieval-inspired music for modern times

David Yardley, The Lost Codex of Avalon Album Launch – Dec 18, 2021, Sydney ‘Fantasy and medieval music for our times’ is what David Yardley’s website promises and, judging by […]

Emily Mirla Harrison’s story of Remembrance. Lest we Forget.

At just 17 and 19 years of age Mirla and Arthur were falling in love, just as the events of the Second World War overtook and then separated them. On […]

CD Review: Sally Greenaway | Don’t Forget Your Music

Composer Sally Greenaway’s “Don’t Forget Your Music” was released 1 October 2021 as a single track Musicians David Shaw – flute Philip Arkinstall – clarinet Barbara Jane Gilby – violin […]

CD Review: The Latin Muse

“Pianist Nancy Tsou’s latest release transports you to the tremendous excitement, the pageantry of the Latin composers Piazzolla, De Falla, Granados, Albéniz and Ginastera.” MOVE Records There is probably a […]

CD Review: Michelle Nelson | Flowers Still Bloom

Compositions by Michelle Nelson for solo guitar, harp and guitar, recorder and guitar, and for tenor ukulele. This 46-minute CD is a new release on the MOVE label (MCD621) of […]

CD Review: HD Duo | Australian Thais

HD DUO Michael Duke – saxophones David Howie – piano New Music for Saxophone and Piano When approaching this new CD there was one thing for sure I knew and […]

CD Review: Michael Kieran Harvey | Catalogue des Errances Bibliques

This 70 minute CD is a new release on the Move label, described by Move as follows: Using the songs of birds from all over France, the composer Olivier Messiaen […]

CD Review: Felicity Wilcox | Uncovered Ground

Felicity Wilcox’s new disc, Uncovered Ground, draws together works from 2014 to 2018. It is the first recording of concert works by this Australian composer, highly experienced across a range […]

CD Review: Eve Duncan | Elephanstasy

The majority of the tracks in this recently released CD by Melbourne composer Eve Duncan are the result of an ABC concert recording at the Salon of the Melbourne Recital […]

CD Review: Thoroughbass | Miss Lucy Havens Requests…

A Scottish lass named Lucy Havens who migrated to Sydney with her family in 1839 was in possession of a large portfolio of sheet music, comprising of some 2,500 works, […]

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Tony Burke

CD Review: Scarlatti’s Steinways at Melbourne

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 is brilliant and many of the works featured on the CD are

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Pepe Newton

Composer Byron Mark releases first single from new album…

Burbujas’ is the first release off Australian composer Byron Mark’s new instrumental album Odyssey.  Scored for piano, string quartet, tabla (Indian drum) and cajon (flamenco drum) the piece is inspired by the ocean, the Spanish title literally translating to the word ‘Bubbles’. The single launches on March 30 2022, with the full album to follow in June. classikON spoke to

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Tony Burke

CD Review: Lachlan Skipworth | Chamber Works Vol. II

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 than Diana Doherty and the Streeton Trio. Written in classical format Lachlan again produces a mellow sound which

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Pepe Newton

CD review: Yardley’s transcendent medieval-inspired music for modern times

David Yardley,  The Lost Codex of Avalon Album Launch – Dec 18, 2021, Sydney ‘Fantasy and medieval music for our times’ is what David Yardley’s website promises and, judging by the wonderful music presented at this weekend’s launch of his second album, that is exactly what you will get… so, what does that mean exactly? Imagine a leather clad troubadour

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Pepe Newton

Emily Mirla Harrison’s story of Remembrance. Lest we Forget.

At just 17 and 19 years of age Mirla and Arthur were falling in love, just as the events of the Second World War overtook and then separated them. On Valentine’s Day 1942 Arthur waved goodbye to Mirla as he set sail from Fremantle, aboard the HMAS Perth, towards a Pacific War. Two weeks later, the Perth was destroyed in

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Peter Hagen

CD Review: Sally Greenaway | Don’t Forget Your Music

Composer Sally Greenaway’s “Don’t Forget Your Music” was released 1 October 2021 as a single track Musicians David Shaw – flute Philip Arkinstall – clarinet Barbara Jane Gilby – violin Timothey Wickham – violin Iska Sampson – viola Samuel Payne – cello Edward Neeman – piano Don’t Forget Your Music has been released in October as a single, but it

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Tony Burke

CD Review: The Latin Muse

“Pianist Nancy Tsou’s latest release transports you to the tremendous excitement, the pageantry of the Latin composers Piazzolla, De Falla, Granados, Albéniz and Ginastera.” MOVE Records There is probably a shortage of Chinese pianists in Argentina but Nancy Tsou makes up for it in a beautifully compiled CD championing the music of her own country and that of the mother

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Clive Lane + Marjory Ellsmore

CD Review: Michelle Nelson | Flowers Still Bloom

Compositions by Michelle Nelson for solo guitar, harp and guitar, recorder and guitar, and for tenor ukulele. This 46-minute CD is a new release on the MOVE label (MCD621) of compositions by the Melbourne composer, guitarist and educator, Michelle Nelson. Recorded from 2019 to April 2021, among the 22 short pieces there are some timeless themes (seasonal motifs, the death

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Alan Holley

CD Review: HD Duo | Australian Thais

HD DUO Michael Duke – saxophones David Howie – piano New Music for Saxophone and Piano When approaching this new CD there was one thing for sure I knew and that was that the performances would be wonderful. With two musicians possessing the skills and reputations of Michael Duke and David Howie the listener and indeed the composers could be

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Clive Lane + Marjory Ellsmore

CD Review: Michael Kieran Harvey | Catalogue des Errances Bibliques

This 70 minute CD is a new release on the Move label, described by Move as follows: Using the songs of birds from all over France, the composer Olivier Messiaen compiled his Catalogue d’oiseaux (“Catalogue of birds”), a vast compendium of music in seven books. Michael Kieran Harvey, who has recorded Messiaen’s complete work (MD 3299), has composed Catalogue des

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Margaret Steinberger

CD Review: Felicity Wilcox | Uncovered Ground

Felicity Wilcox’s new disc, Uncovered Ground, draws together works from 2014 to 2018. It is the first recording of concert works by this Australian composer, highly experienced across a range of genres. Her music for theatre, radio and film includes over sixty soundtracks for the screen, but chamber works are the focus of this disc. Represented are short pieces, longer

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Alan Holley

CD Review: Eve Duncan | Elephanstasy

The majority of the tracks in this recently released CD by Melbourne composer Eve Duncan are the result of an ABC concert recording at the Salon of the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2016 completely dedicated to the music of Duncan and gives a wonderful and broad insight into the creative thinking of a major musical voice from our southern capital.

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Jennifer Foong

CD Review: Thoroughbass | Miss Lucy Havens Requests…

A Scottish lass named Lucy Havens who migrated to Sydney with her family in 1839 was in possession of a large portfolio of sheet music, comprising of some 2,500 works, currently in the safe keeping of Sydney Living Museums. It forms the basis of the album by Australian ensemble Thoroughbass entitled Miss Lucy Havens Requests (the pleasure of your company).

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