28 October, 2021
Review: Kapustin: Piano Concerto No 4, Concerto for Violin & Piano & Chamber Symphony (Frank Dupree, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra)
Dupree is the star at Kapustin's vodka-infused cocktail hour.
Phillip Scott
Phillip Scott is a writer/actor/composer/pianist best known for the Sydney Theatre Company’s annual Wharf Revue. His cabarets include 30 Something. He composed the musical The Republic of Myopia for STC, and the scores for Monkey Baa’s Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance.
Articles by Phillip Scott
24 October, 2021
Review: British Oboe Quintets (Nicholas Daniel, Doric String Quartet)
A diverse program with minimal cowpat and plenty of pep.
11 October, 2021
Reissues: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Complete Recordings on DG
A collector's box to beat them all, and not a conductor in sight.
7 October, 2021
Review: Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works (Andy Baker Orchestra)
Sowerby shows the Roaring Twenties behaving themselves.
9 September, 2021
Review: Mahler: Symphony No 7 (Bavarian State Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko)
A good performance if low on imaginative invention.
27 August, 2021
Review: Braunfels: Orchestral Works (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gregor Bühl)
Braunfels’ lighter side is displayed at its most charming.
17 August, 2021
Review: Busoni: Piano Works (Victor Nicoara)
The mysterious world of Busoni lovingly revealed.
11 August, 2021
Review: Voyage of a Sea-God (Laurence Perkins, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, William Goodchild)
The bassoon on display throughout the 20th century.
20 July, 2021
Review: The British Project – Walton: Troilus & Cressida (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla)
Walton’s orchestral wizardry rescued from obscurity.
19 July, 2021
Review: Beethoven & Schnittke: Violin Concertos (Vadim Gluzman, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan)
An iconic work meets a fascinating, wayward cousin.
28 May, 2021
Review: Adams & Shostakovich (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
This compelling, thought-provoking program was given a truly engaging concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under conductor Fabian Russell.
27 May, 2021
An orchestra’s role is not primarily to reflect contemporary society
Phillip Scott responds to our article Do Our Arts Reflect Us? and argues against looking at classical music programming through the prism of 21st-century ideas of diversity and gender equality.
26 April, 2021
Review: Ligeti: The 18 Études (Danny Driver)
Danny Driver finesses the Hungarian that came in from the cold.