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Alan Holley

Takács Quartet shines in Musica Viva’s 80th birthday season

Musica Viva Australia | Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken 18 August, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Takács Quartet Edward Dusinberre violin Harumi Rhodes  violin Richard O’Neill  viola András Fejér cello with Angie Milliken narrator Program Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 ‘The Rider’ (1793)  Cathy MILLIKEN    Sonnet of an Emigrant

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Gillian Wills

Musica Viva’s Hollywood Songbook shows astonishing ensemble mastery

Musica Viva | Hollywood Songbook 8 May, 2025, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, QLD I confess I’ve attended many, many worthy Musica Viva concerts, but I’ve never been to one where the soloist, in this case soprano Ali McGregor, makes numerous costume calls. Every time she returned to the stage she wore a different last century look- somewhere between the 1920’s

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Peter Hagen

…soulful, rhapsodic joyful, ecstatic – you should move mountains to hear Musica Alchemica

Lina Tur Bonet and Musical Alchemica  November 23, 2024, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC LINA TUR BONET artistic director & baroque violin MARCO TESTORI baroque cello GIANGIACOMO PINARDI theorbo KENNETH WEISS harpsichord Programme BIBER Sonata No. 1 in D minor ‘The Annunciation’ CIMA Sonata a 2 SCHMELZER Sonata Quarta in D major MUFFAT Passacaglia in G minor for harpsichord BIBER Sonata

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Jane Downer

‘Borderlands’ manifestly defined the mood of current times

Van Diemen’s Band – Borderlands Monday 9th May, 2022 Musica Viva National Livestream – City Recital Hall, Sydney For Julia Fredersdorff (Van Diemen’s Band’s Artistic Director) living in Tasmania, the initial idea for Borderlands arose from the shutting down of Australian state borders, which led to thoughts of isolated lands and country extremities. Then, with the military attack on Ukraine

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Heidi Hereth

Musica Viva’s Bernadette Harvey, Harry Bennetts and Miles Mullin-Chivers’ play with sensitivity and passion

City Recital Hall, Sydney March 7, 2022 After battling heavy rain and storms, it was a relief to be welcomed into the City Recital Hall. The Musica Viva concert we came to see was well worth the effort! Bernadette Harvey introduced the concert and welcomed digital viewers on the Musica Viva live stream. A celebrated pianist, she was joined by

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Pepe Newton

Musica Viva unveils 2022

Musica Viva Australia has unveiled their 2022 program, featuring partnerships that span both the country and the world as they bring audiences back to concert halls around Australia to experience a diverse range of live music and the sheer astonishing joy of live performance. Musica Viva’s Artistic Director Paul Kildea said, “Chamber music remains my great love, and in 2022

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Jane Downer

Musica Viva’s exquisitely fragile and brutally beautiful program a resounding success

Konstantin Shamray & ANAM Orchestra, Sophie Rowell and Harry Ward Musica Viva National Livestream Saturday 15th May 2021 Musica Viva’s second national concert tour for 2021 involved a programme of intensely heartfelt music featuring the young violinist and composer Harry Ward (a Musica Viva FutureMaker artist, ANAM alumnus, and principal second violin for this concert), prize-winning concert pianist Konstantin Shamray

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Farewell Huntington Estate Music Festival and your interwoven nature in my life will be missed
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Kate Tribe

Farewell Huntington Estate Music Festival

November marked the 30th and final Huntington Estate Music Festival. It had become interwoven with so many parts of my life. My first festival was in 2007, when I was 33. I was terrified before that festival. The main theme going through my mind, after “what do you wear?”, was “will I be able to enjoy eight concerts in five

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Matthew Hodge

Academy of Ancient Music and Sara Macliver makes Baroque music come alive

It can be a challenge to make Baroque music (music of the 1600s/1700s) come alive. It always sounds beautiful, but in the hands of the wrong musicians, it might not necessarily sound exciting. The Academy of Ancient Music, led by Richard Egarr, has no such worries – they use period instruments to recreate the early sound, and then play with

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