One maestro pays tribute to another, recalling a friend, a mentor and one of the true giants of the Australian music scene. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
October 12, 2016
Vaughan Williams at his earthiest, and masterpieces by Bach, Elgar and Mendelssohn are on the bill for 2017. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
October 12, 2016
★★★★½ Tognetti’s crack band backs classy Russian mistress of the roulades.
October 9, 2016
The great British accompanist aims to score 10 out of 10 travelling through Vivat’s new Decades series. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
October 5, 2016
Margaret Throsby indulges her curiosity about musical questions from improvisation to why we get musical tingles.
October 2, 2016
In an eclectic issue, Richard Tognetti’s ACO turns out to be just one of her many musical passions.
October 2, 2016
Accompanist to Frederick the Great, the second son of JS Bach was also a composer of rare inventiveness and beauty.
October 2, 2016
★★★★½ Edwards’ Mass of the Dreaming and Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass made a moving pairing. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
October 1, 2016
Limelight talks to the operatic icon about life, music, the value of community, reality TV... oh, and Hillary vs Donald.
October 1, 2016
Simon Lobelson is the latest singer required to summon the five octaves required for Maxwell Davies’ ‘mad’ King George. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
September 30, 2016
The big hitters of 19th-century song are well known, but how did they earn their reputations, who were their respected contemporaries, and how did the art form progress over time? It’s always been easy for a competent, or even an inspired composer, to get buried by the sheer overwhelming enthusiasm for a Beethoven or a Brahms, so a chance to examine the development of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade, might be expected to throw up a few surprises. And so it proves in the first of an excellently curated series from accompanist Malcolm Martineau and a stellar quintet of leading singers. Taking Schubert’s miracle years – 1815 and 1816 – as its starting point, Martineau chooses 16 of his finest as a peg on which to hang a thoroughgoing and eclectic selection of the greatest Lieder and song that were around at the time. Ranging across Europe, we visit Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia, German and France in a song lover’s magical mystery tour. The under-recorded Canadian tenor Michael Schade gets the lion’s share of the disc and the majority of the Schubert. Like Peter Schreier, to whom he bears a striking vocal resemblance, he’s a dab hand with…
September 30, 2016
The Australian Financial Review’s Political Editor is also a member of Canberra Choral Society’s alto naughty corner. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
September 28, 2016