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Pepe Newton

Flights, Feathers and Fanfares: Pinchgut’s Fairy Queen Soars

Pinchgut Opera | The Fairy Queen 7 June,  2025, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Wow! Pinchgut does it again… From the first downbeat to the final shimmering chord, The Fairy Queen had me completely enthralled. The thrilling blend of baroque brilliance and modern wit had me pinned to my seat, not wanting to miss a moment of this cleverly

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Alan Holley

ABO’s Bach Suites – Excellent stuff! 

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Bach’s Orchestral Suites 28 Mar, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Paul Dyer Artistic Director, conductor and harpsichord Australian Brandenburg Orchestra  BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b minor, BWV 1067 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069    Opening the 5 performance season of Johann

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Alan Holley

A delight to be in the Utzon Room with AHE’s quartets

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Haydn’s Sunrise March 17, 2025, The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director and violin Matthew Greco – violin Karina Schmitz – viola Daniel Yeadon – cello HAYDN String Quartet Op. 76 No. 4 in B flat major Sunrise BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1 in F major FANNY MENDELSSOHN (HENSEL)

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Brianna Louwen

The Dragon of Wantley a gem, wit and hilarity from start to finish

The Muffat Collective and The Choir of St Paul’s College | The Dragon of Wantley August 11, 2024, Waddy Performance Centre, St Paul’s College, Camperdown, NSW Sydney has been totally ablaze with extraordinary productions of every kind. This week alone I have seen a smash-hit musical, the world’s finest countertenor, a devastatingly brilliant modern opera, and now something unlike all

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Will Evans

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s symphonies in chamber form a real treat

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Beethoven’s Fifth  June 30 2024 | City Recital Hall, Sydney / Australian Digital Concert Hall “What’s on the menu this arvo darl?” “Bocconcini?” “No, no, it’s Boccherini, he’s rococo don’t you know?” So goes my imagined conversation between Cremornese matrons attending this afternoon’s concert. Judging by the number and volume of steel grey bobs and signature

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Tony Burke

Sydney Chamber Choir leaves audience spellbound

Sydney Chamber Choir | Mozart’s Reqiuem April 28, 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW The question is often asked, ‘What marvellous music would we have heard from Mozart if he had lived to a ripe old age?’ Of course, there is clear evidence that he knew he was dying and it is no coincidence that, like Schubert after him, he

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Heidi Hereth

This concert was DIVINE! AHE Heavenly Sopranos

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Heavenly Sopranos Tuesday April 16, 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Although it is tempting to play with words around Celeste, Skye and Heavenly, I will simply say this concert was DIVINE! The AHE with Skye McIntosh and Matthew Greco on violin, Karina Schmitz on viola, Anton Baba on cello, Pippa Macmillan on double bass, Simon

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Will Evans

AHE’s intimate and intense playing lays bare the exultation of this music

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Beethoven’s 7th 21 August, 2023, Australian Digital Concert Hall BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture Op. 84 (arr. Nicolas Mori) BOCCHERINI String Quintet in C minor Op. 10, No. 3 G. 267 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92 (arr. Nicolas Mori) Skye McIntosh, Artistic Director and violin Matthew Greco, violin Karina Schmitz, viola James Eccles, viola

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Daniel Kaan

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s String Quartet, a generous sonorous whole

Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet | Haydn’s Sun and Mendelssohn’s Stars February 19, 2023, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Skye McIntosh, violin Matthew Greco, violin Karina Schmitz, viola Daniel Yeadon, cello Aside from the heavenly bodies of the title, the unifying theme of this concert is the fugue. As a foretaste from the master, the AHE Quartet played the first

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Alan Holley

Grazie Bach Akademie Australia! Just perfect

Bach Akademie Australia | Grazie in Grazia Sunday 13 November, 2022, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood Madeleine Easton – director Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Brianna Louwen – Soprano Hannah Fraser – Alto Stephanie Dillon – Alto Richard Butler – Tenor Koen Van Stade – Tenor Andrew O’Connor – Bass Jack Stephens – Bass In a 100 year old church in

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Jane Downer

Christ Church St Laurence’s Passion shows superlative artistry

The Muffat Collective & Choir of Christ Church St Laurence |  St John Passion Wednesday 6th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall Conductor – Sam Allchurch It is a rare treat in Australia to hear Bach’s St John Passion on period instruments, available to watch via delayed broadcast from the Australian Digital Concert Hall  in a performance by the

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Heidi Hereth

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s fireworks!

Australian Haydn Ensemble, Viennese Star March 19, 2022, Utzon Room, Sydney It was a privilege to be in the Utzon Room on such a beautiful evening to see the postponed concert by the Australian Haydn Ensemble,  Mozart:Viennese Star.  The concert comprised of three different string quartets from the 1780’s by three composers who respected and admired each others’ work. The

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Jane Downer

Bach Akademie Australia superbly captures Bach’s imaginative brilliance

Bach Akademie Australia – Alleluja Friday 26th March 2021 – Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Bach Akademie Australia’s celebratory programme for Easter was held in St Francis of Assisi’s Church in Sydney’s Paddington, the musicians performing from a semicircular marble dais, amid an attractively symmetrical setting of warmly lit column surrounds, with some befitting splashes of red and purple colouring. I

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Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Perfect Rainy Day Menu

On a cold and rainy Sunday, most people would prefer to be indoors and rugged up. But at a time when live music is experiencing the revival it desperately needs, I and many others jumped at the chance to see the Australian Haydn Ensemble perform live at City Recital Hall. Celebrating their first return to concert stages in over a

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Jane Downer

Review: Bach Akademie Australia’s Luminous Christmas Joy

Weihnachtsfreude Wednesday 16th December 2020 Introduced by Chris Howlett from the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, the Bach Akademie Australia offered a wonderfully spirited performance of Christmas Joy in celebration of the impending season. A small ensemble of experts familiar on the Australian early music scene presented a motet, concerto, cantata, and oratorio arias by Johann Sebastian Bach. A curved wall

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Lliane Clarke

Review: Weichnachtsfreude

Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Friday November 13, 2020 In the first orchestral concert for Christ Church St Laurence since COVID struck down the performing arts, the exquisite Bach Akademie Australia chamber ensemble presented two intimate evening concerts, back to back, to a live audience.  I can only guess the stress behind the scenes of presenting a live

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Daniel Kaan

Review: Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra a delight!

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – Mozart & Abel Friday 23rd October at 7pm, Melbourne Digital Concert Hall The first two quartets were played by Georgia Browne (flute), Matthew Greco (violin), Karina Schmitz (viola) and Daniel Yeadon (cello). Browne is the featured guest artist for this concert. She studied with Barthold Kuijken in The Hague and has played extensively as

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Review | Australian Haydn Ensemble Dreamed Away

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s Dream Melbourne Digital Concert Hall 8th October 2020 Australian Haydn Ensemble’s livestream concert on Thursday night was the perfect way to relax and dream away the week. Broadcast through Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, the concert was part of their residency with Create NSW and the National Art School at the Old Darlinghurst Gaol. The Cell Block

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