Review: Tye, Sheppard, Taverner (The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, Christopher Watson)
A joyous discovery of English polyphony by gifted young voices.
July 7, 2025
Review: Alma Mahler, Lovers & Friends (Raoul Steffani, Julius Drake)
A heady plunge into the fin-de-siècle salon from the talented Dutch baritone.
July 4, 2025
Review: Radiante (Seraphim Trio, Stephen King)
Seraphim Trio sparks up with vivid, underperformed chamber works.
July 2, 2025
Review: Mayr: Amor non ha ritegno (Yeree Suh, Markus Schäfer, Daniel Ochoa, Niklas Mallmann, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk)
Another rediscovered gem from the man who taught Donizetti.
June 30, 2025
Review: The Complete Songs of Ravel (Malcolm Martineau)
Martineau dishes up the finest survey of Ravel song to date.
June 23, 2025
Review: Ponchielli: I Lituani (Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrėnas)
Ponchielli’s pre-Gioconda hit given a fair suck of the sauce bottle.
June 20, 2025
Review: Bach: the Toccatas (Jonathan Ferrucci)
An Italian-Australian pianist finds the fantasy in Bach’s Toccatas.
June 18, 2025
Review: A thousand beautiful and graceful inventions (The University of Queensland Chamber Singers, Graeme Morton)
An enthusiastic survey of ingenuity in the golden age of polyphony.
June 16, 2025
Review: Rebelle (Eva Zaïcik, Orchestre National de Lille, Pierre Dumoussaud)
A thoughtfully put together portrait album by a fine singer.
June 12, 2025
Review: Thomas Adès: Orchestral Suites (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Adès)
Adès suites: alternately shocking, magic, and a hell of a lot of fun.
June 9, 2025
Review: Reissues: When Antal Doráti brought the Mercury sound to London
Eloquence issues two of the best Mercury collections from the 1950s and 60s.
June 4, 2025
Review: Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia, Ludovic Morlot)
Morlot unites with L'Auditori for latest instalment of ambitious Ravel project.
June 2, 2025
Review: Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 (Benjamin Grosvenor)
Grosvenor displays his chops in a kaleidoscopic Chopin album.
May 29, 2025