Peninsula Summer Music Festival announces 2024 lineup
International guests from the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA join an eclectic roster of emerging and established Australian artists.
International guests from the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA join an eclectic roster of emerging and established Australian artists.
A spirit of friendship, openness and innovation fuelled Inventi Ensemble's exploration of the many colours of music.
Festival directors Ben Opie and Melissa Doecke unveil a Peninsula Summer Music Festival that will appeal to all the senses.
Small is beautiful as Mornington’s boutique festival goes online
Bartsch's Merlyn Myer Commission, along with arrangements of selections from her solo classical/jazz hybrid albums, provides a subtle submergence in a range of lush lullabies and flowing lattices of chamber writing.
Inventi Ensemble steps up to break the silence of a COVID lockdown.
Named for an Aboriginal word meaning pipe or flute, Ulpirra Sonatines places Ross Edwards and Mark Isaacs – who joins flautist Melissa Doecke on this disc – alongside Poulenc and Dutilleux. The disc opens with the lush first movement of Isaacs’ Sonatine, Doecke soaring over Isaacs’ undulating piano. The recording catches the complex edge of Doecke’s sound as she produces ethereal harmonics and earthy flutter-tonguing. Isaacs’ The River for alto flute and piano revels in the velvet sound of the lower instrument, while providing plenty of opportunity for Doecke to sweep up through the range with a light, flitting agility. The colour and virtuosity of Edwards’ Nura has no doubt contributed to its popularity in the flute repertoire. Wild Bird Morning channels Messiaen while Ocean Idyll is eerily tranquil. In this performance the normally fiery Earth Dance is given a carefully paced, detailed treatment. Doecke’s clean sound winds meditatively above gently flowing water in Edwards’ Water Spirit Song, originally a work for cello, while Ulpirra dances playfully. After this, it is jolting to be thrust into 20th-century neo-classicism with Poulenc’s oft-performed Sonata. Doecke’s tone is honeyed, however, as she… Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe…