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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 combination of musical talent. And how lucky are we that the Australian Digital Concert Hall afforded us

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Jane Downer

Livestream Review | Baroque Duo, a portent of brighter things to come

Baroque Duo Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Wednesday 15th September 2021 At a time when a whole raft of period-instrument and other performances have been erased from the Australian scene, it took little hesitation to be back watching a Melbourne Digital Concert Hall livestream where Baroque Duo musicians – Neal Peres da Costa (harpsichord) and Daniel Yeadon (violoncello and viola da

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Melbourne Opera rises to the challenge of Verdi’s Macbeth

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall May 26, 2021 On an appropriately dark and wintery night, Melbourne Opera partnered with Melbourne Digital Concert Hall to present a livestream of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at Her Majesty’s Theatre.  This particular piece has a chequered history. The first version of the opera was written when Verdi was only thirty-three years old, premiering in 1947. The

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Margaret Steinberger

Variety, enjoyment and collegiality on show in Orange

Orange Chamber Music Festival: Gala Melbourne Digital Concert Hall from Orange, NSW, April 8, 2021 Joy and expectation were in the air at the Opening Gala of the Orange Chamber Music Festival in the central west of NSW. Introductory speakers and live audience alike were visibly keen to be part of the inaugural festival, delayed a year by the pandemic.

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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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Latitude 37 - Passions of the Soul Part 1
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Jane Downer

Review: Latitude 37 | Syncopation, exoticism & ingenious violin techniques

Latitude 37 – Passions of the Soul Part 1 Thursday 11th February 2021 on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Held at the Melbourne Athenaeum to audiences both live and via computer technology, Latitude 37 (a group specialising in 17th- and 18th-century repertoire rarely performed in Australia) presented Passions of the Soul, the title inspired by René Descarte’s scrutiny into the nature

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Huong Pham
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Tony Burke

Review: Hoang Pham’s sensitive recital

Hoang Pham – Sonata Tragica on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall 10/2/2021 Program Liszt – La Leggierezza Liszt – Liebestraum Pham – Nocturne in A Flat Chopin – Nocturne in D Flat, Op 27 No 2 Pham – Lòng Mẹ Pham – Sonata Tragica Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No In these dark ages, with very little live music on offer, it’s refreshing to be able to listen to

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Daniel Kaan

Review: An impressive, fresh and engaging Rheingold

Wagner: Das Rheingold Melbourne Opera: Regent Theatre, 7/2/2021 via Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas in Wagner’s momentous “Ring of the Nibelung” cycle Largely due to the constraints of Covid border closures, the entire cast and crew, except for the UK escapee Welsh conductor, are Victorian. It goes to show just what

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Jane Downer

Review: Powerfully moving concert from Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Mayor’s Gala – Summer Nights Series 4 Saturday 6th February 2021 Co-Director of the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Chris Howlett introduced the Mayor’s Gala evening concert as a token of sincere appreciation of the musicians to the City of Bendigo, its population and beautiful venues. The performance took place in the auditorium of The Capital Theatre,

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Jane Downer

Review: Bendigo Chamber Music Festival’s Thrilling Gala Opening

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Opening Gala – Summer Nights Series 1 Wednesday 3rd February 2021 The Bendigo Chamber Music Festival’s Opening Gala for their Summer Nights Series 1 featured a programme of music in a myriad of styles covering early Baroque, forays into the Romantic era, traditional folk, and 20th-century jazz. Co-Directors of the BCMF, Howard Penny and Chris Howlett

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Pepe Newton

2021 Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

3 – 7 February 2021 16 of Australia’s leading artists perform 15 recitals to restart City of Greater Bendigo’s classical music scene.  Co-directors Chris Howlett and Howard Penny, with the City of Greater Bendigo are thrilled to announce the 2021 Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Programme. After a thrilling launch and sold out inaugural festival in 2020, the second festival will

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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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The Melbourne Ensemble were joined by Dale Barltrop for a memorable performance at Hamer Hall
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Jennifer Foong

Review: A memorable performance by The Melbourne Ensemble

Melbourne Ensemble and Dale Barltrop | Schubert’s Octet Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Hamer Hall Series | Nov 25, 2020 In 1824, towards the end of his tragically short life, Schubert composed his Octet in F major D803, which he described as a “Grand Symphony”. Its 6 movements certainly make it symphonic in scale. It is similar to Beethoven’s Septet through

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Review WILMA and FRIENDS Melbourne Digital Concert Hall - Hamer Hall Series
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Margaret Steinberger

Review: Wilma & Friends presents Beethoven treats

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall – Hamer Hall Series 26 November 2020 For classical music lovers, one of the beacons of hope during the pandemic has been the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall (MDCH). The brainchild of Chris Howlett and Adele Schonhardt, for months now it has presented a mouth-watering array of live-streamed concerts offering home access to everyone, and much-needed performance

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Jane Downer

Review | Sophie Rowell + Kristian Chong light up Hamer Hall

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall – Hamer Hall Series 3 X 3: MOZART, MYTHS AND MANTRAS Thursday 26th November Introduced by Chris Howlett and broadcast live through the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, well-known violinist and concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sophie Rowell united with leading Australian pianist Kristian Chong for a concert titled 3 X 3: MOZART, MYTHS AND MANTRAS.

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Daniel Kaan reviews Elizabeth Andersen's concert on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
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Daniel Kaan

Elizabeth Anderson on MDCH ‘Thrilling!’

Elizabeth Anderson (harpsichord) | JS Bach: Goldberg Variations Melbourne Digital Concert Hall 8:30pm Friday 20 November, 2020 Approaching Bach’s Goldberg Variations as a listener requires a certain reverence. Although there are many dramatic moments, the Aria and 30 variations are, with one notable exception, unrelentingly contrapuntal and seriously introspective. You cannot listen to them on your iPhone while doing the

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Review: ‘ACC5’ sweet & concise

Australian Chamber Choir – Water Music Sunday 15th November Performed by: The Australian Chamber Choir’s ACC5 directed by Lucien Fischer Amelia Jones and Ailsa Webb – Soprano Elizabeth Anderson – Contralto Anish Nair – Tenor Lucien Fischer – Bass In Covid 19 times the vocal icon of Melbourne, the Australian Chamber Choir, has had to be compliant with health requirements

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ARCO a delight
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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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