Review: Marchetti • Hope: The Last Days of Reality (Marchetti, Hope, Decibel)
Sonic sophistication from French-Australian collaboration.
May 20, 2019
Review: Beach • Smyth • Clara Schumann (Tasmin Little, John Lenehan)
Not-so-little women emerge from the shadows.
May 20, 2019
Review: Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Jan Lisiecki)
Lisiecki brings winning youthful brio and ardour to Mendelssohn’s Piano.
May 20, 2019
Review: Westlake • Reich: Spirit of the Wild, The Desert Music (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
High Spirits: Meditations on modernity showcase virtuosity and technical brilliance.
May 17, 2019
Review: Tan Dun: Violin Concertos (Eldbjørg Hemsing)
Eldbjørg Hemsing dazzles with two new Tan Dun concertos.
May 13, 2019
Review: Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Minnesota Orchestra/Vänskä)
The Resurrected Minnesotans excel in Mahler’s Symphony No 2.
May 13, 2019
Review: JS Bach: Violin Concertos (Isabelle Faust)
A master’s timeless music by a true musical adventurer.
May 13, 2019
Review: Vivaldi: Il Giustino (Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone)
Vivaldian gem sparkles with dirty doings in the Byzantine Empire.
May 13, 2019
Review: Contrabandista (Javier Camarena)
Camarena smuggles rarities into his disc of bel canto blockbusters.
May 13, 2019
Review: Menotti: The Medium & The Telephone (Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana/Scogna)
A short and sweet double bill from the poor man’s Puccini.
May 13, 2019
Review: L’Alessandro Amante (Xavier Sabata, Vespres D’Arnadí)
Sabata paints a multi-faceted portrait of Alexander the Great.
May 6, 2019
Review: Handel: Serse (Franco Fagioli ct, Il Pomo D’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev)
Nothing shady about Xerxes in a hot new Handel recording.
May 6, 2019
Review: Messa per Rossini (Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala/Riccardo Chailly)
Chailly brings untiring energy to this musical curio, but is it enough?
May 6, 2019