The new music ensemble’s performance for International Women’s Day launches a year celebrating female composers. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
An attractive concert of chamber favourites kicks off Omega's year.
A perfect match creates a youthful supergroup of unfettered imagination and immense control.
Musica Viva’s FutureMakers ensemble, Arcadia Winds reflect on the highlights of their first year.
The intuitive relationship that vocalist Katie Noonan and classical guitarist Karin Schaupp have developed together makes for some gorgeous music-making in their latest recording Songs of the Latin Skies. Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp. Photo: supplied It’s their third release together, following the success of their 2012 ARIA nominated album Songs of the Southern Skies and their 2011 eight-track EP Songs from the British Isles. Songs of the Latin Skies features 13 tracks, which pay homage to the great South American songbook of bossa nova, samba, salsa and tango by composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Luis Bonfá, Antonio Lauro and Antônio Carlos Jobim among others. The duo bring a fresh, distinctive, original take to the repertoire, with Noonan’s exquisite vocals soaring delicately over Schaupp’s virtuosic, equally expressive playing, as they caress the melodies to create a meltingly laid-back album with a spare, minimal beauty that would soothe the most furrowed brow. The first track Seguranca makes for a stunning opening, with some double-tracking of Noonan’s voice creating lovely rich harmonies and showcasing her renowned vocal range from a warm bottom register to a dazzling, ethereal top. Classic bossa nova numbers Desafinado and Wave… Continue reading Get unlimited digital…
Lewis Carroll’s crazy conundrums lured Holly Harrison down the rabbit hole in a new chamber work written for Eighth Blackbird. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Melbourne new music collective serves double the thrills in their first action-packed concert of 2017.
The Eighth Blackbird flute player’s musical heroes include Audra McDonald, Aretha Franklin and Johannes Brahms. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Australian period ensemble brings its expertise to Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The SOH, Australian National Academy of Music and Pacific Opera announce a new concert series in the Utzon Room. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The great English clarinettist, conductor and founding member of the Melos Ensemble, has passed away aged 90. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Flinders Quartet’s Zoe Knighton on finding the voices of the future and hypothetical conversations with dead composers. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The ne plus ultra of Mozart boxes: with curation like this, Amadeus’s 225th death-day box will be hard to surpass.
